MELBOURNE, Friday.—After his daughter had given evidence from a hospital bed at Casterton to-day, George Thorne Bennett, 47, was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered a newly-born child at Cowangie, 345 miles ...
Article : 910 wordsSURMOUNTING tremendous difficulties in an adventure-packed journey, an Australian merchant seaman, his English ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 205 wordsMOST Brisbane church leaders yesterday disagreed with the ruling of Lord Jowitt in a House of ...
Article : 560 wordsTHE Weather Man (Mr. A. S. Richards) would not admit that yesterday was the "hottest" day in terms ...
Article : 229 wordsA SPECIAL meeting of the Brisbane City Council has been called for noon next Tuesday to approve the erection of a £2,250,000 electricity power house on a 24-acre strip of land ...
Article : 388 wordsMost distinguished—and mysterious—figure at a party for Melbourne old age pensioners was this 84-year-old man. He ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 79 wordsENTRIES of Queensland schoolboys keen to be selected to represent Australia at the New York Herald Tribune's debating ...
Article : 195 wordsBRISBANE wharves were 153 men short yesterday to handle 11 interstate and overseas loading and discharging ...
Article : 199 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Wheat sold to New Zealand at 5/9 a bushel under the present year's contract will cost the Australian taxpayer approximately £2,640,000. ...
Article : 333 wordsLONDON, December 19 (A.A.P.-Reuters). — Australia's wheat should be a dollar-saver for Great Britain. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Hanlon) hopes that in the new year a constructive move will be made towards building the uniform gauge line ...
Article : 154 wordsElimination of the middleman, and sales at more liberal rates on the instalment system were the aim of State regional electricity ...
Article : 130 wordsA thousand motorists could have got a six-gallon Christmas petrol ration, if Mr. Chifley had not taken a special Liberator plane to New Zealand. ...
Article : 219 wordsHOBART, Friday.—The new Labour administration, with Mr. Brooker as Premier, was sworn in, to-day at a meeting of the ...
Article : 228 wordsARE you going away for the Christmas holidays? If so, be sure you get a copy of The Courier-Mail Guide to Holiday ...
Article : 73 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Bank figures show that Sydney is having its biggest spending Christmas on record. ...
Article : 55 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Two men and a woman pleaded guilty in the Quarter Sessions to-day to three charges of having forged and ...
Article : 109 wordsIn the last two years a special effort has been made by the Divine Word missionaries to improve their olive grove at St. ...
Article : 85 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Unemployment in Australia, as revealed in applications for unemployment benefits, has fallen steadily during ...
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Advertising : 41 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Immigration Minister (Mr. Calwell) said to-day that 1527 child migrants had already arrived in ...
Article : 152 wordsTHE number now employed underground or on the surface in Queensland coal mines—about 3410—was a record, colliery officials said yesterday. They said Queensland was Commander K. E. Oom, captain of the Wyatt Earp, Antarctic expedition ship, now in Melbourne, showing part of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 341 wordsAlthough she has flown several hundred hours as an A.N.A. hostess, Miss Pat Moffatt, of Brisbane, got her biggest flying thrill ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 1 wordsFederal civil servants this Christmas will get five days' holiday in succession. The service inspectorate said ...
Article : 147 wordsThe erection of a factory at Rocklea to manufacture tractor-powered sugar farm equipment would be another step in making ...
Article : 85 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A Six-year-old French girl was sent back to Noumea this week to die at her home, because Sydney doctors say she is too weak to survive the delicate brain operation needed to cure her. ...
Article : 151 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. — Mr. Frank McClelland Mitchel, 75, director of Broken Hill Pty., Co., Ltd. and associate companies, and ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Sat 20 Dec 1947, Page 3
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