IN protest against Labour's "stone-walling" tactics on a minor vote of £2900 for the Public Curator's Department in Parliament yesterday, the Opposition Leader (Mr. Nicklin) ...
Article : 649 wordsTHE Health Director-General (Dr. Fryberg)' yesterday appealed to householders to report delivery of dirty milk bottles. He said it had been found that dirty milk bottles ...
Article : 402 wordsTHERE should be no hint of revenge for Japanese wartime policy and no war-guilt clause in the peace settlement ...
Article : 302 wordsON a 60ft. launch, moored at the Edward Street ferry jetty, at 4.30 p.m. yesterday, a bride and groom knelt ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 292 words"WE need a separate institution, caring for subnormal children only," Brigadier F. C. Turner, Salvation ...
Article : 150 wordsMIRROR check for Miss Elva Gunn, Miss Australia Quest candidate, before she faced the judges last ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 18 wordsRetail prices in Queensland in the year ended September 30 rose by 4 p.c.—twice as quickly as in the previous year. ...
Article : 177 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—An increase of £1 million, Australian currency, value in imports of American motor vehicle chassis ...
Article : 193 wordsBrisbane's double series of wool sales, which ended yesterday, was the richest of the post-war boom. A preliminary estimate is that ...
Article : 297 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Aluminium could not be substituted for tinplate in making fruit and jam tins because aluminium cost ...
Article : 35 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Deposits in the Hart's Range district of the Northern Territory will be examined by the Mines Inspector ...
Article : 49 wordsFIRST opportunity for Brisbane to see the 32 Queensland entrants in the Miss Australia 1947 Quest will be provided at a gala concert in the City Hall on Monday night. ...
Article : 173 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—A 53-year-old boiler attendant was scalded to [?]eath in the basement of David Jones' Elizabeth Street stores ...
Article : 45 wordsSCRAPPING of the present "ridiculous system of pegging used car prices" was urged again by Brisbane motor authorities yesterday. They claimed that this system was forcing black ...
Article : 327 wordsQualify of Brisbane bread would improve when Queensland wheat became available in about six weeks, a bakers' representative said ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Hanlon) said in Parliament last night that he hoped to solve the housing shortage within two or three years. ...
Article : 110 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Detectives have not yet solved the mystery surrounding the posting of a box of chocolates poisoned with prussic ...
Article : 140 wordsWAR-TIME beer drinking sessions would be introduced in Brisbane hotels this summer, city hotelkeepers said yesterday. ...
Article : 89 wordsAn Australia-wide wireless cover against crime will be at the disposal of the Queensland police when a new multi-channel wireless ...
Article : 98 wordsNine new positions, with salaries ranging from £350 to £745, are being created in the State Tourist Bureau, following its transfer from ...
Article : 193 wordsTHE Rev. Father Owen Steele, Catholic priest, of Beaudesert, has been chosen to represent the Rats of Tobruk Association at the unveiling of a memorial to Australian war dead at Tobruk next January. ...
Article : 283 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The Bankruptcy Court to-day adjourned to a date to be fixed next year, an application by John Woolcott ...
Article : 50 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday. — Air—Marshal Sir George Pirie, Royal Air Force Commander-in-Chief in the Far East, reached Adelaide ...
Article : 52 wordsTOOWOOMBA, Thursday.—The Toowoomba City Council had been "rushed" with applications for tenancy of 22 pensioners' flats which ...
Article : 140 wordsAUCKLAND, Thursday (A.A.P.-Reuter).—When some of the 129 American ex-servicemen migrants on the Marine Phoenix were ...
Article : 83 wordsHe brought 6000 dollars (£1900) with him and said: "I have been looking forward to this holiday since 1914. Now I have enough ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 176 wordsErection of 21 more State houses was approved by the Executive Council yesterday. The Housing Minister (Mr. ...
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Advertising : 123 wordsFormer squatters at Victoria Park, now tenants of the Housing Commission, will not get any preference in accommodation. ...
Article : 127 wordsDARWIN, Thursday. — Quarantine officials to-day enforced rigid quarantine regulations as a precaution against the possible entry ...
Article : 89 wordsBRIBIE ISLAND, Thursday.—The body of Patrick Lyons, 75, who presumably died last night, was not removed to the mainland ...
Article : 63 wordsDawn Coulthurst, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Coulthurst, of Wolverhampton Street, Stafford, was hit by a truck and killed at ...
Article : 121 wordsROCKHAMPTON, Thursday. — A man has been detained by the police following a struggle for a rifle at Bushley, 20 miles west of ...
Article : 90 wordsCUSTOMS officers found 12 pairs of contraband nylon stockings on the overseas freighter Rattler last night, less than half an hour after she berthed in Brisbane from New York and Philadelphia. ...
Article : 116 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Delegates to the interstate police conference to-day declared out of order a motion asking the ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Fri 7 Nov 1947, Page 3
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