THE Acting Premier (Mr. Hanlon) is backing proposals that Eagle Farm aerodrome should be made Brisbane's main airport and a suggestion that it become a major trans-Pacific air ...
Article : 506 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—The Federal Government will continue control of building materials and permits on the present basis until November 1. after which responsibility will ...
Article : 252 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.—Senior A.I.F. officers amongst liberated prisoners now in Darwin complained bitterly to-day at the way they are being fed. One senior officer said that ...
Article : 259 words"WALTZING MATILDA" to a guitar is freedom and happiness to these Australian prisoners just released from camps in Japan. Queenslanders among them are Cpl. Les. Smith of Ingham, in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 148 wordsEstablishment of new industries in North Queensland, so that there would be less dependence on sugar, was urged ...
Article : 345 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Behind the scenes the Federal Government is waging a hard, diplomatic battle for arrangements giving Australia military protection in 4 screen of islands to the north. ...
Article : 232 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.—Because she almost froxe in her special plane, Gracie Fields got camphor in her pineapple juice ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 177 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—The Defence Minister (Mr. Beasley) intends to present to the Commonwealth for its was archives two historic pens. ...
Article : 81 wordsTWO Sydney women were forced by the Japs to work in the fields in Java for three and a half years out shoes. They are Mrs. L. Ossendrey. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 871 wordsTwenty Italian—members of the crew of a submarine which was refuelling at Penang when Italy capitulated—were interned by the ...
Article : 197 words"Employers, as well as employees, agree that the basic wage should be reviewed as soon as possible," said Mr. P. J. Self, acting secretary of ...
Article : 164 wordsARMY personnel on board the Douglas plane missing in New Guinea were not P.O.W's, but medical cases en route to Australia from hospital at Mororai, it was stated yesterday. ...
Article : 290 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A shipping strike with international complications it threatened to-morrow. It was announced to-night that ...
Article : 256 wordsHeavy losses are inevitable for many farmers now producing varieties of vegetables for which there is a diminishing demand. ...
Article : 208 wordsFIRST request by Chinese women released after three years of Jap internment, near Rabaul, wot for pretty underwear and cosmetics. Red Cross officials intend ...
Article : 240 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Recordings of debates broadcast from the New Zealand Parliament were played for members of the ...
Article : 111 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Women in Yugoslavia were dragging ploughs on the farm and doing it at night to hide their nudity, said Mr. .J. ...
Article : 146 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—"The only way to get big companies to go to the country, it seems, is by some action such as refusing them ...
Article : 111 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Since the printed report of the Auditor-General had come to hand the Munitions Department had ...
Article : 86 wordsBranches of the Queensland Country Women's Association will make a special effort to raise funds for blankets for China. ...
Article : 55 wordsFour Brisbane prisoners of war in Java have sent word to their families that they are safe and well and expect to be home soon. ...
Article : 87 wordsMORE than 500 survivors, from H.M.A.S. Perth and the U.S.S. Houston were quartered in a dilapidated picture theatre which was part of a Japanese gaol in Sumatra during the early months of 1942. ...
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Advertising : 44 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—There need be no fear that Japanese war criminals will escape justice because of lock of machinery for their detection and arrest. The Army Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 219 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Set. Adair MacAlister Blain, M.H.R., for the Northern Territory, who returned recently from a Japanese ...
Article : 113 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—In co-operation with the missionaries the Government intended to educate the New Guinea natives and help ...
Article : 129 wordsWhen the Qantas flying-boat. Coriolanus, arrives at Singapore from Sydney on Tuesday she will probably be the first civil aircraft ...
Article : 120 wordsBATAVIA, Sept. 23 (Special).—"The luxurious Des Indies Hotel is to become a convalescent depot for released war prisoners. ...
Article : 83 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—"It is a sad event when a ship's captain trying to save the lives of others loses his own." said the City Coroner ...
Article : 129 wordsCONTINUANCE of this austerity business it leaving me damp at an ice cube in a refrigerator that has run hat. Of course, it's ...
Article : 301 wordsThe Queensland Employers' Federation has written to the Minister for Supply and Shipping (Mr. Ashley) requesting the immediate ...
Article : 81 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday—Lifting of control over the manufacture of hand and garden tools was announced yesterday by the Post-war ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Mon 24 Sep 1945, Page 3
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