SOME of the most humorous and hazardous stories of the war belong to the Water Transport service—the A.I.F. who went to sea with little or no training. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,184 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) may establish a peace time Defence Council, on which Opposition parties would be invited to serve. ...
Article : 306 wordsELEMENTS of a British Pacific Fleet fast carrier force were moving across "enemy controlled waters" on a beautifully ...
Article : 106 wordsTO encourage oil sections of the community to get to-gether on housing. The Courier-Mail has arranged a Housing Congress. ...
Article : 65 wordsSOME wartime hostels in Brisbane will become permanent recreation centres for returned servicemen and women. Few service clubs will close ...
Article : 318 wordsThe Country Party in the approaching budget session of Parliament would endeavour to obtain a frank and complete ...
Article : 266 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—The maximum wholesale price at which eggs may be told has been reduced from 2/ a dozen to ...
Article : 70 wordsDenaro airflow concrete blocks, recently invented in Brisbane for home building, would be cheaper than brick, said the Acting Premier ...
Article : 114 wordsFREMANTLE, Sunday.—The Labour candidate, Mr. D. E. Beazley, won the Fremantle by-election yesterday by a 7500 absolute majority. ...
Article : 116 wordsIN Thanksgiving sermons yesterday, church leaders appealed to the people to make the peace worthy of The sacrifices of this war. Churches throughout the ...
Article : 448 words"The Government aims to give every child in Queensland, including the pre-school child, a full dental service, "Health Minister ...
Article : 194 wordsPolice have organised a State-wide search for Mrs. Edna Violet Gough, 23, and her two daughters, Beverley 4½, and Maureen, 3. who ...
Article : 199 wordsA CLOSE vote is expected in the strike ballot now being taken by metropolitan firemen. It is understood that about 180 votes have been counted ...
Article : 242 wordsCity depot to receive clothing donations for U.N.R.R.A. is at Allan and Stark's hardware department. Parcels may be left ...
Article : 91 wordsFour hundred and fifty V.A.D. personnel were Inspected by the G.O.C. Queensland Lines of Communication Area (Major-General V. P. H. Stantke). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 126 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Two Royal Navy ratings were killed when a navy truck crashed into a fence in Pacific Highway. Roseville, at ...
Article : 72 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—The Victorian Premier (Mr. Dunstan), the Tasmanian Premier (Mr. Cosgrove), and the Acting Premier of ...
Article : 113 wordsMEMBERS of the City of Brisbane heavy bombardment squodron of the R.A.A.F. were 18,000 feet above a small island near their operational base when they received news of Japan's final capitulation. ...
Article : 260 wordsFEWER SHEEP IN N.S.W.—Sheep flocks In New South Wales decreased by more than 10 million In the year ended last March. ...
Article : 265 wordsIPSWICH, Sunday,—William Gall, 51, of The Terrace, North Ipswich, received a probable fracture of the skull when a car in ...
Article : 97 wordsWar Cabinet's decision to allow houses costing up to £1200, excluding land, to be built without a permit was the best bit of news the ...
Article : 127 wordsAUSTRALIAN Jungle Survival Unit, whose existence was hidden by military censors during the war, made dramatic rescues of Allied airmen. Pte. William Atkinson, of ...
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Advertising : 352 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Large supplies of clothing for civilian and service internees in Japanese-occupied territory were loaded on ...
Article : 97 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A five-months-old baby girl was killed and a youth of 16 seriously injured when a motor truck ...
Article : 128 wordsNo complaint bas been received at the Education Department relating to the awarding of University scholarships, the Public ...
Article : 91 wordsWE oH were terribly bucked (well, most of us anyhow) to hear Mr. Hanlon toy that post-war jobs would be found for everybody ...
Article : 378 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The management of Aberdare Extended Colliery, Cessnock, informed 130 of its employees to-day that because ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Mon 20 Aug 1945, Page 3
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