FIVE Douglas passenger planes were piled together and extensively damaged when an 89-miles-an-hour gale—the worst in Brisbane's history—swept Archerfield aerodrome at 5.5 ...
Article : 660 wordsTHREE Douglas air liners piled on each other after they had been ripped from their moorings in the open at Archerfield by the 89 m.p.h. gale yesterday afternoon. Two other machines of the same type also were demanded ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 83 wordsRIPPED wing section of one of the Douglas air liners which was damaged by the gale at Archerfield. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 76 wordsABORIGINES at Woorabinda settlement, about 70 miles south-west of Rockhampton, are being given a new deal. Instead of depending largely ...
Article : 386 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.—An appeal has been made to United Nations Organisation, on behalf of aborigines in the ...
Article : 278 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Sunday.—An urgent broadcast appeal for volunteers to relieve the critical staff shortage at the Townsville General Hospital was made by the medical ...
Article : 285 wordsAUCKLAND, Sunday.—Waiting to appear as Santa Claus at a children's party at Greymouth, South Island, Len ...
Article : 84 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Four deaths from accidents occurred in Sydney at the week-end. Ronald Samuel Munro 18 of ...
Article : 143 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Supplementary economic decisions following the rise in the basic wage and the modification of wage-pegging will be examined by a Cabinet subcommittee led by the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 307 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Some Italian prisoners of war were laughing, but others were weeping to-day as they boarded the Empire Clyde ...
Article : 174 wordsA large public hospital on the site of St. Leo's University College, in Wickham Terrace, was envisaged by Archbishop Duhig yesterday. ...
Article : 214 wordsMARYBOROUGH, Sunday.—Buyers at the disposals sale at the Former Maryborough R.A.A.F. camp yesterday paid only a fraction of ...
Article : 197 wordsThe State Government may pay full costs of playground improvements sought by the Zillmere State School Committee. ...
Article : 151 wordsIntending holiday train passengers to the South Coast should book their seats not later than a day before the rime of travel the ...
Article : 110 wordsBrisbane will see "Britain Can Make It" products at the Exhibition Grounds next year. The Royal National Association ...
Article : 80 wordsCAIRNS, Sunday.—When a truck and a car collided on the Mareeba-Kuranda Road yesterday, the driver of the truck. Bert ...
Article : 104 wordsLEAVING a Shanghai hotel after about a week's stay, Mr. A. P. Downie, of Melbourne, received a bill for more than 700,000 Chinese dollars (about A£67/10/). Mr. Downie, representative of ...
Article : 116 wordsThe three coal prospectors who were seriously injured when they were partially burled at Moggill on Saturday are still in a critical ...
Article : 78 wordsIPSWICH, Sunday.—Walter Blandford, 14, Telegraph Street, North Ipswich, was drowned in the Bremer River early this afternoon ...
Article : 141 wordsThe hulk Mombah, with 50,000 feet of half inch (domestic) water Piping and 100,000 feet of three-quarter inch (industrial) piping, is ...
Article : 117 words"It is a crime in Australia to-day to be old, sick, and poor," Mr. H. W. Leary, honorary organiser of the Brisbane ...
Article : 193 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Bretton Woods was not an agreement, but an ultimatum by powerful interests to the people of Australia, the External Territories Minister (Mr. Ward) told a crowded audience in a King's Cross ...
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Advertising : 139 wordsBetween £6000 and £8000 is planned to be spent by the South Brisbane sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League on a ...
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Advertising : 68 wordsSeven hundred wet bales of wool on the freighter Rabaul, drenched in Saturday night's storm, have delayed the departure for Canada ...
Article : 86 wordsMOTHER and son, and father and daughter were among the candidates given practical flying tests for The Courier-Mail £150 Flying Scholarship at Archerfield at the week-end. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 268 wordsA Brisbane doctor has offered to perform a special operation to remove a nail embedded in one ting of 15-year-old Shirley ...
Article : 94 wordsMr. Harold Stannard Cubitt, 69, of Swann Road, Taringa who died yesterday, was for many years one of the State's most prominent ...
Article : 49 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—About 12,000 letters daily were written to the Repatriation Department from all over Australia and 3000 ...
Article : 54 wordsSYDNEY Sunday.—All mines on the South Coast will be idle to-morrow while the miners hold mass meetings to discuss the "dust" ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Mon 16 Dec 1946, Page 3
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