REVERSION by Federal Government offices to the pre-war practice of observing the day following Boxing Day as a public holiday caused confusion in the city yesterday. ...
Article : 490 wordsYESTERDAY was a hot, dreary first-day-back-at-work or some—but hundreds of others managed to find nore holiday fun, even in the city area. Above: Second-year nurse trainee Jess Litchfield gets a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 116 wordsMAROOCHYDORE, Friday.—Two thousand campers are being forced to live under disgusting conditions in the main Maroochydore camping areas. ...
Article : 486 wordsTHE policeman's lot is hot—or not—but in neither of these Christmas holiday pictures is it an enviable one. Constable E. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsBetween 40,000 and 50,000 metropolitan employees working under Federal awards will get a delayed "Christmas box" ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Queensland People's Party leader (Mr. Bruce Pie) last night invited the Premier (Mr. Hanlon) to accept before ...
Article : 264 wordsONE of his London counterparts, sticking it out in the first snowstorm of the season, just before Christmas. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 39 wordsWITH her 100,000 word novel of the West, "I Camp Here," blonde, grey-eyed, 28-year-old Mrs. G. H. Job, of ...
Article : 188 wordsTrams, trains, and milk carts will provide the only regular services in Brisbane on New Year's Day. ...
Article : 128 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Because of fog and low cloud only six of the 19 yachts in the 680-mile Sydney-Hobart race could be located to-day by a searching R.A.A.F. Liberator. ...
Article : 322 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Commonwealth Bank has announced the retirement of three senior Officers this month. ...
Article : 108 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Seventy Royal Navy ratings who arrived in the Marella from Singapore to-day will be demobilised in ...
Article : 48 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Immediate action by the Prime Minister (Mr. Chiefley) to call a conference of Government ...
Article : 195 wordsCompulsory branding of all leather manufactured goods is being sought by the Leather and Allied Trades Union in Queensland. ...
Article : 127 wordsDonald Warr, [?] hitched his Double B under his arm as he left the interstate station yesterday afternoon with 34 other ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 132 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—A mass meeting of 1000 striking gas workers decided unanimously to-day to reject the companies' offers, submitted through the emergency committee of the Australasian Council of ...
Article : 381 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—"At the rate we are going, we will soon have nudists on our beaches," said the Dean of Melbourne (the Very Rev. H. T. Langley) to-day. "Girls who wear scanty costumes ...
Article : 201 wordsAlthough traffic accidents were few this Christmas, some traffic laws were still being flouted, said police last night. ...
Article : 102 wordsAt Mayne Junction railway station a train guard was killed instantly by a locomotive. He was: Roy Narborough, 47 ...
Article : 99 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—The first Y.W.C.A national youth conference to be held for seven years will open at Melbourne Church of ...
Article : 43 wordsVictor John Travis, 20, who was remanded on Thursday on a charge of having escaped from the Brisbane Prison, was again ...
Article : 83 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Chips Rafferty would definitely play Peter Lalor in the Ealing Film "Eureka Stockade." Mr. Rex SYDNEY, Friday.—David Stewart Dawson, 24, company director, would not appeal, against his sentence of 10 ...
Article : 284 wordsThe Labour and Industry Minister (Mr. Gain said last night that, as Royal Assent had been given to the amended Arbitration ...
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Advertising : 262 wordsCHINCHILLA, Friday.—One of the amphibious cars, otherwise known as Army "ducks," may soon be used in the Chinchilla district ...
Article : 189 wordsFive men who helped themselves to petrol from a pump at Sherwood when motoring home from a wedding on Boxing Night, were ...
Article : 103 wordsFrederick Marsden, 59, traveller, of New South Wales, has been convicted of offences in New Zealand and in every State of the Are you going motoring this week-end? Then call at The Courier-Mail and get your "Guide to Holiday ...
Article : 172 wordsHUNDREDS of romances had resulted from adult deaf and dumb interstate carnivals, one of which was being held now in Brisbane, superintendent of the Queensland Deaf and Dumb Mission (Mr. A. Landers) said last ...
Article : 246 wordsOf the 16 western children staying at the Leslie Wilson Home of the Bush Children's Health Scheme at Redcliffe for the Christmas ...
Article : 120 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Three thousand Boy Scouts from all parts of New South Wales and many from South Australia arrived at Loftus ...
Article : 62 wordsBrisbane had half a normal day's trading yesterday, said the United Retailers' Institute president (Mr. H. G. Fielding) last night. ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Sat 28 Dec 1946, Page 3
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