CANBERRA, Tuesday.—It was announced officially to-day that the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) had referred to the Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) the Queensland requests for granting of a Royal Commission following allegations that ...
Article : 946 wordsHIGH taxation was the root cause of all Australian industrial unrest to-day, Mr. Maher (C.P., West Moreton) ...
Article : 528 wordsIKIN running to catch the Sydney mail train at South Brisbane yesterday, when the M.C.C. team left for the south. Ikin was making late farewells to friends when the train started and was helped aboard by Langridge ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 86 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—John Grant Sangster (18), of Glenbervie Road, Vermont, was acquitted by a jury in the ...
Article : 242 wordsBelief that price control was in Australia to stay, was expressed by the Premier (Mr. Hanlon) when introducing the Economic Stability ...
Article : 411 wordsA TEACHER, giving a lesson on coins, finally slapped down a penny on the table and barked “What’s that?” ...
Article : 177 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—A fifth defeated Labour member of Parliament has been given a Government post. ...
Article : 265 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The interim basic wage case, in which the Australasian Council of Trades Unions is seeking £1 a week rise ...
Article : 315 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The foundry situation is no brighter to-night, and prospects or their starting work before Christmas are ...
Article : 176 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—To-morrow's one-day stop-work meeting of 20,000 wharf labourers in 52 Australian ports will tie up 54 ships in Sydney. Of the 54 29 are oversea ships and ...
Article : 348 wordsWOMEN are showing keen interest in The Courier-Mail £150 Flying Scholarship, and so for represent nearly a ...
Article : 180 wordsUNLESS the Commonwealth Government acts quickly to get special allocation of cotton mosquito netting from England's manufacturers, Queenslanders will be unable to buy nets next summer. ...
Article : 403 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—A general cool strike was threatened early in the New Year, unless the Federal Government acted on plans to ...
Article : 143 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Expenditure on social services for the five months ended November 30 totalled £22,991,000, according to Treasury ...
Article : 47 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The gas employees' union will meet at 9.30 a.m. to-morrow to consider the recommendation by the Federal ...
Article : 87 wordsBRISBANE moulders on strike are not likely to resume work until after the New Year, no matter what decision is made by their comrades in Melbourne. A meeting of about 120 moulders ...
Article : 395 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Full High Court unanimously decided to-day that fixation of meat prices in Sydney was valid. ...
Article : 123 wordsFOOD FOR BRITAIN: Food for Britain being prepared for loading into the freighter Gloucester at Newstead yesterday. This is another big consignment sent as a result of the Lord Mayor's Food for Britain Appeal ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 72 wordsThe Brisbane Suburban Shopkeepers' Association decided at their annual meeting last night to hold a special meeting to discuss ...
Article : 236 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Aborigines previously engaged in war work were looking forward eagerly for further military employment ...
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Advertising : 125 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Three general purpose naval vessels and a shore patrol dealt with floating mines, the Navy Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 57 wordsA SIMPLE remedy for school children who allowed pleasure to interfere with their studies was given yesterday by veteran Brisbane educationist (Canon W. P. F. Morris). Somerville House principal (Miss ...
Article : 187 wordsSOUTHPORT, Tuesday.—When a landslide occurred in the Main Roads Commission quarry at Beechmont to-day, William ...
Article : 73 wordsJohn Brown, 32, married, a carter, of Noble Street, Wilston, was killed yesterday when the hook he was using to load wheat into ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Wed 11 Dec 1946, Page 3
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