ACCORDING to present arrangements the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester will visit Queensland from Thursday, June 7, to Friday, June 15. This was announced by the Acting Premier ...
Article : 425 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—When a Royal Air Force plane exploded while flying 1000ft. above Petersham this morning, the pilot and observer were killed and blazing ports of the ...
Article : 525 wordsPRIVILEGED, groups receiving special meat rations because of the arduous nature of their work would receive the ...
Article : 245 wordsAustralian tanks on Bougainville Island are finding the country as rough as the enemy. This Matilda—one of many now in action on the island—flounders off the bank to ford the Puriata River. The crew watches anxiously. LEFT: Australian engineers fixing ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 130 wordsShirley Temple, who turned 17 on April 23, it engaged to Sgt. John Agar, 24, of the U.S. Army Air Force. This picture was taken ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 72 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Australian National Airways announced to-night that from to-morrow increased interstate services ...
Article : 185 wordsPROVOSTS and civilian police last night stifled on attempt by Australian servicemen to march to Parliament House in protest against the alleged lack of accommodation in Brisbane. ...
Article : 280 wordsOffer of 3/8 a week increase—one penny an hour—has been made to all workers in the wage lection of the Railway Department. ...
Article : 125 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Acting Army Minister (Senator Fraser) is satisfied that troops in Brisbane have no cause for ...
Article : 288 wordsGUAM, May 2.—Rocket-firing Mitchells are the latest Allied "ship-basting" weapon in use in the Pacific. Admiral Nimitz's ...
Article : 234 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Wing-Commander Rollo Kingsford Smith, nephew of the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith ...
Article : 113 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—In the week ended April 28, 33 Queensland prisoners of war were released in Western Europe and ...
Article : 212 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Royal Australian Naval forces are blasting enemy bastions guarding Wewak last coastal stronghold [?] ...
Article : 247 wordsBrisbane City Council proposes to spend £7317 on dust-proofing suburban roads, most of which have suffered from heavy military ...
Article : 77 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Walter Ellis; 47, was sentenced to-day to seven years' imprisonment, and Francis Ellis, 50, to three and a ...
Article : 96 wordsMany traders in Brisbane were "inviting trouble" for themselves by their failure to observe the recent order requiring them to display ...
Article : 182 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The report of Hitler's death was responsible for Cessnock No. 2 colliery, on the northern coalfields, being ...
Article : 76 wordsTHE Trades Union Panel that assisted in arranging the art display in workers' canteens deserves to have a red ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 276 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Bonds lodged with private trading banks for real estate transactions may be released if desired. ...
Article : 120 wordsOwners of motor boats impressed early in the war think they are being treated unfairly in the disposal of boats no longer required. ...
Article : 229 wordsQUEENSLAND has asked the Federal Government for confirmation of the announcement in Canberra on Tuesday that a public holiday should be held to celebrate VE-day—the end of the European war. ...
Article : 237 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Manpower allocations for agricultural machinery manufacture would be included in the overall manpower ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 149 wordsLONDON, May 2 (Special).—For the first time since the outbreak of war, papers may publish news about the residences of the ...
Article : 252 wordsSub.-Lieut J. P. G. Cassidy, R.A.N.R., Of H.M.A.S. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, May 2 (A.A.P.).—Carefully selected German prisoners of war soon will be going back into Germany with British ...
Article : 119 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Commercial broadcasting stations were trying to gain a monopolistic control over the gathering and ...
Article : 142 wordsFirst deliveries of the Southern Queensland autumn potato harvest have appeared on the Brisbane market. ...
Article : 179 wordsSuburban shopkeepers complained last night that bakers had been charging them 3d. a dozen extra for bread since the strike. ...
Article : 100 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—First scheduled flight of a Lancastrian aircraft inaugurating the new Australia-England air mail service ...
Article : 114 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Soon after VE-DAY, a large number of air force personnel overseas would be returned to Australia to ...
Article : 100 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Nuffield car building organisation would select the site for its Australian factory in consultation, with ...
Article : 85 wordsAn operational Beautifighter squadron was one of the chief subscribers to the Third Victory Loan among R.A.A.F. and W.A.A.F. ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, May 2 (A.A.P.).—The official report on the principal Tokio prisoner of war camp at Onnori, a suburb of Tokio, in ...
Article : 70 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—A suggestion by Mr. White (Lib., V.) that Australians held prisoner by the Japanese should be sent ...
Article : 49 wordsONLY £67 has now to be subscribed to reach the £2000 objective of the Silver Hut Canteen Appeal. One gift of £2, which arrived yesterday, came from two ...
Article : 184 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Striking Balmain ironworkers to-day defied a direction by the Federal Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. ...
Article : 97 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Continued improvement in the condition of the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) was reported in a medical ...
Article : 34 wordsTHE name "White Australia' Policy" was criticised by His Rev. H. M. Wheller yesterday. Mr. Wheller, who is president of ...
Article : 221 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Most members of the Federal Cabinet, including the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley), will attend the ...
Article : 64 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Air Minister (Mr. Drakeford) said in the House of Representatives to-day that he was investigating s ...
Article : 57 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Homebush Abattoirs were completely idle to-day, because 15 chilling room attendants went on strike. ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Thu 3 May 1945, Page 3
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