FIRST measure to be introduced in the State Parliamentary session to open on August 6 will probably be the 40-hour week legislation. Political opinion still is that the shorter week will not come into ...
Article : 586 wordsTHE City Council had rejected, six months ago, an application by the Shell Co. of Australia Ltd., for permission to store petrol in a tank involved in the Newstead explosions on June 25, the ...
Article : 650 wordsMRS. E. A. HUGHES, a member of the Longreach Shire Council, meeting the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) at the welcome given to him at Longreach on Tuesday night by the Australian Labour Party. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 105 wordsAUSTRALIANS marry at a younger age than Englishmen, Scotsmen or Italians, according to ...
Article : 305 wordsMEAT rationing is to be rigidly enforced from next Monday by official insistence that retailers ...
Article : 238 wordsIT'S a cold reward, but it's tradition. Members of the Physio II crew throwing their cox, N. Parker, into the river yesterday afternoon after their win in the women's fours event at the University regatta. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 72 wordsTOOWOOMBA, Wednesday. Grain sorghum on the Downs worth more than £1 million could not be sold ...
Article : 270 wordsANNOUNCEMENT of a plan for an English company to produce coal at Blair Athol field on a huge scale can be expected at an early date. ...
Article : 306 wordsMACKAY, Wednesday.—Next big move in the Commonwealth Government's social security plans is likely to be a national superannuation scheme. ...
Article : 151 wordsDr. Alfred Lang an, of Cairns, lodged notice of appeal in the Supreme Court yesterday against Mr. Justice Stanley's judgment, given on ...
Article : 170 wordsUnlimited quantities of Blair Athol coal had been offered for sole to the South Australian Premier (Mr. Playford) the O.P.P. member ...
Article : 446 wordsMARYBOROUGH, Wednesday.—At the conclusion of addresses by counsel in the Gum mow case in the Circuit Court to-day Mr. Justice ...
Article : 254 wordsBUNDABERG, Wednesday.—How a boy not quite five years of age saved his younger sister from a brutal assault by kicking her ...
Article : 189 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Direct action for a 40-hour week "for all workers throughout Australia" unless it is granted by other ...
Article : 195 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The chairman of the British Commonwealth Pacific Air Lines (Mr. A. W. Coles) announced to-day ...
Article : 94 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Pet-rol rationing on the present scale was likely to remain for at least another 12 months, the newly ...
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Advertising : 23 wordsPayable prices for wool for at least another five years were forecast yesterday by the Australian Wool Boards Queensland member ...
Article : 98 wordsAnother sequence of trusty nights in the central and southern divisions is predicted by the Divisional Meteorologist ...
Article : 42 wordsSurplus army ordnance stores, equipment, and huts and buildings suitable for temporary housing would be disposed of at quickly as ...
Article : 87 wordsTWO ex-servicemen brothers who had paid only 4¼d. in the £1 on a partnership bankruptcy, and nothing on their individual bankruptcies, were granted certificates of discharge by Mr. Justice E. A. Douglas in ...
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Advertising : 53 wordsThe question of drought relief and subsidy rates to dairymen is now the subject of discussions between the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Brisbane suburb of Oakleigh, named officially only five years ago, is to be re-named Dorrington. The Oakleigh and District ...
Article : 89 wordsTo increase the output or locomotives, working of overtime would be necessary, said the Railways Commissioner (Mr. Wills) ...
Article : 97 wordsLONGREACH, Wednesday.—Longreach goats are threatening to split the town into a pro and anti-goat class war. Those against the goats list these offences:— ...
Article : 296 wordsTwo additional services for North Queensland have been Inaugurated by Australian, Nation Airways as from July 21. ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Thu 24 Jul 1947, Page 3
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