Angry troops burnt down a canteen tent at the Ingleburn camp of the Second A.I.F. to-night. About 300 men took part in the demonstration as a ...
Article : 335 wordsThe Government may have to face sharp criticism from a section of the Country Party members when the House of Representatives ...
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Family Notices : 75 wordsNotwithstanding light supplies at Roma-street to-day, values generally, except for onions, were easier. Several lines of potatoes were grub infested. ...
Article : 126 wordsGiving evidence before the Taxation Inquiry Commission today on behalf of the Brisbane Stock Exchange, Lance A. Jones ...
Article : 405 wordsAn information alleginng that A. Saxton and Sons, timber merchants, of Pyrmont, had sold timber on August 31 at prices in excess of those ...
Article : 98 wordsUnder instructions from the Premier (Mr. W. Forgan Smith), the Coordinator-General of Works (Mr. J. R. Kemp) will begin immediate ...
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Advertising : 53 wordsA rise bf 6d. a gallon in the retail price of petrol is expected to be announced shortly. The increase will represent 3d. a gallon increase in duty, ...
Article : 221 wordsDeclaring he would go down fighting, James Murray (34), miner, who appeared on three charges in the Police Court to-day, created a ...
Article : 310 wordsThis afternoon His Honor (Mr. R. J. Douglas) heard a special application on behalf of John James Fitzsimmons that a medical practitioner be ...
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Advertising : 84 wordsFrom time to time a fear has existed—in a sense it still exists— that Latin America is threatened by Fascism. Some publicists ...
Article : 747 wordsThe criminal sittings of the Supreme Court were occupied to-day in the hearing for the third time of the case against William Royal Stanfield ...
Article : 122 words"As a detachment being the third enlisted from Cairns and district, and about to leave for Brisbane I extend very best wishes for safe journeyings ...
Article : 540 wordsSixty Lascar seamen who left a British ship at Pyrmont last Thursday returned to the ship at the week-end after an interview with an Indian ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Tully mill expects to finish crushing on Thursday morning, when approximately 302,000 tons of cane will have passed through the rollers.— ...
Article : 28 wordsWhile steering a launch owned by Cyril Thomas Holland, of Thursday Island, an aboriginal, Bo[?] Quita, who is about 70 years of age, ...
Article : 304 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture and Stock (Mr. F. W. Bulcock) has announced that he has received a report on the marketing of a truck load of ...
Article : 330 wordsThe following is the State weather forecast for to-day: Fine on the tropical coast except for a few slight showers between Cooktown and Cardwell; ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsMr. G. Blair, manager of the Australian Sugar Co's. mill at Mourilyan, said, to-day that it was expected to blow the final whistle for, the season ...
Article : 116 wordsE. Backhaus, a cane cutter, of Mundoo, sustained an incised wound on the left foot owing to being cut with a cane knife. First-aid by the Ambulance ...
Article : 83 wordsRalph Hales (6), residing in Martyn-street, contracted tetanus as a result of having stood on a garden fork on Thursday last, and is now in ...
Article : 85 wordsJohn Braddick (11), residing in Florence-street, sustained a lacerated wound between the second and third fingers of the left hand yesterday while ...
Article : 42 wordsOfficial advice was received from Brisbane yesterday that authority had been given to the Johnstone Shire Council to borrow £ from the State ...
Article : 40 wordsResults of the recent sale at Cairns were complete justification of the Government's policy of reclaiming town lands for building sites, said the ...
Article : 95 wordsIn the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. R. C. Grenier, P.M., Sydney Evan Johnston (27), labourer, was charged with having been found drunk on ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Etheridge railway service from Chillagoe to Forsayth, which is the terminus of the line, is to be improved by the introduction of a new Diesel ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 282 wordsThe total receipts from the Unemployment Relie'f Tax and the State Development Tax to June 30 last was £, which exceeded the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Cairns Shire Council gives notice that it is the intention of the council to borrow £ for the purpose of purchasing road-making plant, ...
Article : 56 wordsA special Christmas hamper for every member of the State's complement of the Sixth Division of the Second A.I.F. is being prepared by ...
Article : 139 wordsThe annual report of the director of Labour (Mr. T. F. Lyons) shows that the total number of persons who applied for unemployment sustenance ...
Article : 96 wordsNo profits were made by Shand's Gulf Meatworks Ltd. and towards the end of 1938 after a number of attempts to place the works on a ...
Article : 124 wordsDebates on various aspects of the Government's war programme are expected to occupy the Federal Parliament this week. The House of ...
Article : 90 wordsDuring the year 1938-39 37 men in the Cairns district received assistance for prospecting, the amount involved being £. Married men were paid ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Innisfail-Mena Creek bus service was disorganised yesterday when it was discovered after the early morning buses had passed over it that two of ...
Article : 129 wordsWhen a scuffler cut a black snake in halves in a corn crop at Calliope, in the Ulmarra district, the head half of the snake sprang up and bit Ken ...
Article : 79 wordsConsumers in Norman-street, between Cannon-street and Sheppardstreet, are notified that the water will be cut off from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. today ...
Article : 33 wordsThe general secretary of the Queensland Police Union (Mr. H. P. Talty) will arrive in Cairns by plane to-day on official business. He will ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Tue 21 Nov 1939, Page 6
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