Charles Longden (104 years, and eight months), who died this morning, is believed to have been the oldest Crimean veteran in the world. ...
Article : 89 wordsAlthough no official statement will be made until the week-end it is known that the Commonwealth cash and conversion loan of £72,000,000, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 wordsSpeaking at a welcome to the Prime Minister at the Woodville motor body works of General Motors—Holden's Ltd.—to-day, ...
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Family Notices : 85 wordsThe inquest into the manner and cause of the deaths of Berates Hampton Goodson, Olga Dagmar Headrick, Charles Henry James ...
Article : 3,200 wordsNew Moon: December 22. ...
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Advertising : 190 wordsMacdhui, from the south. ...
Article : 9 wordsHoldings Limited report as follows on the Mons Meg mine at Lolworth, Q., for the fortnight ended December 3, 1938: Broke, and raised to the ...
Article : 76 wordsPastor Theodors Anderson (40), of the Seventh Day Adventists, Cooranbong, was found bound and gagged today in the bush near Wyee, after he ...
Article : 354 wordsAlmkerk, for overseas. ...
Article : 8 wordsThe personnel of the Royal Commission to inquire into the peak year scheme and over-production in the sugar industry was announced by the ...
Article : 556 wordsMacdhui, for Papuan and New Guinea ports. ...
Article : 11 wordsAllara, till Saturday. ...
Article : 7 wordsManunda will leave Brisbane today. Due Cairns on Tuesday morning. Will sail the same day at 6 p.m. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsJapan has a long way to go before she reaches the height of her desires in China. Inner Mongolia, the vast but sparsely-settled ...
Article : 705 wordsMacdhui, from Sydney, Brisbane and Townsville, arrived Cairns last evening. Will sail at 9 o'clock this morning for Papuan and New Guinea ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 wordsThose associated with the drive for militia recruits in Queensland are pleased with the success of the effort. Mr. J. Fraricis,.M.H.R., one of the ...
Article : 57 wordsOne of Australia's most important defence posts is without any means of contact with southern States, other than by wireless, after its telegraphic ...
Article : 234 wordsThe Archbold flying boat, Guba, arrived here at 2.40 o'clock this afternoon from Melbourne.—Our Port Moresby correspondent. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 281 wordsLoan and subsidies approved to-day include the Cardwell shire £6587 loan and subsidy for replacing defective water mains in Tully and extending ...
Article : 31 wordsCommenting to-day on a question raised by the Minister for Works (Mr. H. Bruce) in a speech at the State Commercial High School on Wednesday ...
Article : 288 wordsChristmas Cheer will be paid to relief recipients at the office of the Cairns Labour Agent to-day. Men will receive a free gift of 19/3, women ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Customs House will, be closed on December 26 and 27, 1938, and on January 2, 1939, except for the transaction of any urgent customs ...
Article : 39 wordsChosen from 26 applicants, Mr. W. A. Hooper, senior, was last night appointed secretary of the Cairns Show Association. Mr. Hooper was one ...
Article : 53 wordsA comprehensive explanatory pamphlet on the income (State development) tax, which will operate from January 1, in place of the income ...
Article : 44 wordsLate yesterday afternoon the Ambulance was called to attend Norton Thiele (8), a scholar, of Sheridanstreet, who was found to be suffering ...
Article : 72 wordsThree horses grazing in a paddock at Collins' slaughter yard were struck dead as a violent thunderstorm raged over the district late on Wednesday ...
Article : 45 wordsSome of the 29 Russian passengers from Manchuria by the Kamo Maru who landed in Brisbane, forming the largest party of Russians to land here, ...
Article : 93 wordsThe sale of an historic site on Innisfail Esplanade was effected at the Innisfail Lands Office yesterday afternoon. This was a perpetual lease, and ...
Article : 86 wordsWhen the inquest into the plane disaster at Innisfail on August 29 last, in which five persons lost their lives, was adjourned yesterday to ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Cardwell Shire Council has been advised by the Lands Department that a reserve of 212 acres has been set apart for township purposes ...
Article : 55 wordsIn contrast with other parts of the country along the railway line, the portion between Mt. Surprise and Forsayth is very dry and badly in need ...
Article : 62 wordsThough the Queensland Wheat Board at Toowoomba to-day again discussed the wheat price deadlock it arrived at no solution. Because of the increased ...
Article : 64 wordsThe three R.A.A.F. Avro Anson planes on, 4490 miles navigation fight arrived in Cairns from Townsville yesterday morning. Two of the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Railway Department hopes to have all ore accumulated on the Etheridge line transported to the Chillagoe Smelters before Christmas, ...
Article : 104 words"An avaricious old woman" was how Detective-Sergeant T. Harold, prosecutor in the Police Court to-day, described Mary Ann Abrahamson (70), ...
Article : 140 wordsStanley Baillie (19), an axeman engaged in felling scrub on theproperty of Miss Marion Major, Evelyn, received a nasty incised wound across ...
Article : 85 wordsThe forecast for Queensland, issued at 5 p.m. to-day, is: Scattered rain and local thunderstorms in the coastal divisions, chiefly north from the ...
Article : 112 wordsA report on the allegation made at the inquest at Cairns on the crash of a Dragon plane near Innisfail that the Civil Aviation Board often granted ...
Article : 97 wordsOn Monday, December 26, all steam and motor trains in the Cairns district are cancelled with the exception of the following: 7 a.m., motor from Cairns ...
Article : 126 wordsIn connection with the reclamation scheme proposed to be carried out by the Harbour Board at the north end of No. 1 wharf, some delay has been ...
Article : 117 wordsThree waggons of bulls, comprising approximately 48 beasts, went through Cairns yesterday by rail for Mount Surprise, en route to Abingdon ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Fri 16 Dec 1938, Page 8
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