AUSTRALIAN navy men, who will leave on an Antarctic expedition to-day week, testing their hooded suits during trials of equipment at Melbourne. The exercises were held to train the men to take scientific and other supplies ashore on Heard and Mocquorie Islands. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 88 wordsTHE third and only surviving child of a Nundah family died early yesterday from burns received while playing ...
Article : 250 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The House of Representatives Privileges Committee should investigate the charge that he had used his Parliamentary gold pass to gain special privileges while a prisoner of war. Mr. Blain ...
Article : 424 words"INSTEAD of being the watchdog of State revenue, the stamp Office is virtually a bloodhound," Mr. Russell (C.P., Dalby) said in Parliament yesterday. ...
Article : 420 wordsTHIRTY-TWO of the most attractive girls in Queensland are awaiting nervously the announcement of "Miss ...
Article : 257 wordsAS the result of letters sent to The Courier-Mail, the Vice-Mayor (Ald. Moon) has to decide whether the big sea eagle ...
Article : 214 wordsQueensland forests had been so decimated in the past that quality timber was now in short supply, the annual report of the State Forests ...
Article : 217 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—If the Government did not know that Samuel Phineas Lewis was one of the key men of the communist party in Australia, the Commonwealth Security Service must be completely ineffective ...
Article : 386 wordsWILL you be Santa Claus to a homeless child? To the average child Christmas is a wonderland of toys. To ...
Article : 243 wordsState school children would be given a holiday in Queensland on Thursday, November 20, the wedding day of Princess Elizabeth ...
Article : 31 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Three Sydney scientists to-day both saw and heard radio waves reflected from the moon, 288,000 miles away. In the first successful ...
Article : 274 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—"I invited seven friends and all I had was a 10-gallon keg," said Mr. George Thomas, third cook, denving ...
Article : 230 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday. — Guy Fawkes proved a good "guy" to two boys this week. ...
Article : 121 wordsResidents of Darra, population about 1000, and 10 miles from Brisbane, are fighting a fly plague. A check yesterday disclosed that ...
Article : 162 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Meat Board had recommended to the Government that all controls affecting meat, including rationing ...
Article : 173 wordsQueensland national parks would not be cheapened like other tourist resorts throughout the world, said the Land Administration Board's ...
Article : 97 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The House of Representatives, the Parliamentary Library, and the Senate will be air-conditioned, at a cost of ...
Article : 161 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Limited quantities of Australian-made nylon stockings will be on sale at stores throughout Australia on ...
Article : 26 wordsTHE City Council made a call for 150 labourers at the State Labour Bureau yesterday, but only 85 unemployed men responded. Of these, several were ...
Article : 201 wordsA good rain group was indicated for about Christmas, Mr. Inigo Jones said in a special forecast from Crohamhurst Observatory ...
Article : 31 wordsThomas McCann, 41, labourer, married with six children, was convicted in the Criminal Court yesterday of having attempted to ...
Article : 219 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Decision to purchase Convair airliners for Trans-Australia Airlines was preceded by a comprehensive ...
Article : 104 wordsAllan Martin, 26, police constable, appeared on remand in the Police Court yesterday charged with having, on October 31 ...
Article : 84 wordsIPSWICH, Friday.—It was learned unofficially to-night that the North Ipswich sub-branch of the Australian Railways' Union ...
Article : 102 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—A Maori woman in a Hawkes Bay nursing home has given birth to her 20th child. She married ...
Article : 33 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—A mines inspector had gone from Alice Springs to Hart's Range to investigate the reported find of ...
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Advertising : 113 wordsSIX thousand children in the Metropolitan area are being taught to swim this summer. Another 4000 are learning in country centres. When a class of about 30 ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 202 wordsAny peace settlement with Japan should include adequate reparations and a definite plan to prevent her re-arming, the Returned ...
Article : 120 wordsROCKHAMPTON, Friday.—William Patrick Hopkins, 2, dozer-driver, was remanded until November 14, in the Rockhampton ...
Article : 62 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — Sydney's bread strike ended in its fifth day to-day, but housewives will be without bread until Monday. ...
Article : 40 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—One of the motors of an A.N.A. Skymaster failed over Canberra to-day. The crankcase burst and the plane ...
Article : 68 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Princess Elizabeth has written to ex-service trainees of the reconstruction training scheme thanking them ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Sydney Harold Hewett (42), of Ashfield, a communist party organiser, was fined £20 in the Sydney Quarter ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Sat 8 Nov 1947, Page 3
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