AT least 40 per cent, fewer hospital beds are available in Brisbane to-day for maternity cases than in 1939 because of rising costs and staff shortages. The position is being aggravated by the rising birthrate. ...
Article : 568 wordsMANY of the 26 passengers who arrived in Brisbane in the British 10,000-ton. luxury freighter Port Pirie from New York yesterday were fleeing from American ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 348 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Cargoes handled, in eight days on Newcastle wharves before the war ...
Article : 256 wordsFINDING the "error on the clock" is the daily job of Mr. W. J. Newell, astronomical observer of the State Surveyor-General's Department. Below he is shown preparing his meridian transit telescope for a check on star time—an ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 330 wordsMr. Robert McGreqor Scotten with his wife, who arrived in Brisbane yesterday in the Port Pirie, on their way ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 90 wordsALTHOUGH the strike did not keep crowds from surfing beaches and bay resorts yesterday, bluebottles ...
Article : 223 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—While bush fires rage in the southwest, other parts of Western Australia are isolated by ...
Article : 215 wordsWeek-end reports give the following road toll: Coolangatta. — Paul Grummett, 13, of Bilinga, died from ...
Article : 232 wordsThree Asiatics will arrive in Brisbane next month to study of the Queensland University. They will be the first ...
Article : 132 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.— Shipping companies in the England-Australia trade report that they cannot ...
Article : 90 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—The present Premier of Tasmania (Mr. Brooker) said last night that he ...
Article : 301 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Onions are the latest Australian commodity to be used to earn the elusive ...
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Advertising : 277 words1 TO combat rising prices, Australian women might have to organise buyers' boycotts similar to those staged in America, Mrs. E. J. Hanson suggested last night. ...
Article : 250 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A 4 1/2-year-old girl, who has been treated by Sydney doctors as a "blue baby." is now a patient of ...
Article : 62 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — The strike at the Cockatoo Dockyard is likely to develop into a lengthy one. Construction of ...
Article : 63 words2 MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Melbourne waterside workers are threatening to refuse to load shipments of ...
Article : 108 wordsTO help trace the beginnings of the world's "timeless" people—the Australian aborigines—is one aim of American scientists Frank M. Setzler and Herbert G. Deignan. ...
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Advertising : 171 wordsBrisbane's weather will become drier and warmer in the next few days, the Weather Bureau believes. ...
Article : 48 wordsSIX semi-finalists have been chosen from nearly 500 entrants for The Courier-Mail 1947-48 Flying Scholarship. Selected after careful ...
Article : 297 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Leon Coss, 18-year-old mentally deficient Polish refugee immigrant, will be deported from ...
Article : 62 wordsTOOWOOMBA, Sunday. — Mr. M. N. Hart, of Toowoomba. and Mr. O. Ward, of Brisbane, former R.A.A.F. fighter pilots. ...
Article : 94 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — The deaths of two men and two women, who the police believe, committed suicide were ...
Article : 128 wordsAustralian members of next month's scientific expedition to Arnhem Land in Brisbane to meet American colleagues. From left: Messrs. Herbert G. Delgnan (American specialist on bird life), Ray Specht (Australian ethnologist), Frank M. Setzler (U.S. anthropologist), and C. P. Mountford (Department of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 100 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Rose Marie Harwood, 18 months, of Liverpool, was found drowned in a cesspit. Her body was found ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Mon 23 Feb 1948, Page 3
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