Light supplies of potatoes were available at Roma-street to-day and good clearances were made. Notwithstanding the generally indifferent ...
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Family Notices : 153 wordsA conspiracy to defraud starting price bookmakers in Victoria and New South Wales, and betting shops in South Australia, ...
Article : 719 wordsSupreme confidence in the British war effort was expressed by the Minister for Supply (Mr. R. G. Casey), who reached ...
Article : 682 wordsOfficers' and men of the Queensland units of the Second A.I.F., numbering 1740, left hi four special trains to-day for the south, where ...
Article : 259 wordsFive members of the R.A.A.F. were killed when an Avro Anson plane crashed near Richmond aerodrome early this morning. An official announcement of the tragedy, was as follows: "The Air Board regrets to announce that during a night ...
Article : 240 wordsFurther tribute to the esteem in which Rev. W. P. Hohenhouse and Mrs. Hohenhouse have been held in Cairns was given yesterday morning ...
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Advertising : 101 wordsThe Federal Government will probably have to revise its decision that all pay collected by members of the Second A.I.F. will be paid in English ...
Article : 353 wordsAnother plane took off a few minutes later, but the ground staff at the aerodrome heard a roar and then a crash in the direction taken by the ...
Article : 247 wordsThe inglorious ending to the career of the Admiral Graf Spee closes one brief chapter in the war effort of Germany on the ...
Article : 778 wordsLeonard John King, one of the victims, was aged 23 and a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. King, of Fairfield, Brisbane. He was educated at Junction ...
Article : 143 words"The delay ia tue purchase of a new ambulance car for Innisfail was because of the committee's unsatisfactory budget," said the Minister ...
Article : 209 wordsWhen he failed to appear before Mr. R. C. Grenier, P.M., in the Cairns Police Court yesterday morning, to answer a charge of drunkenness, ...
Article : 34 wordsWith Bradman scoring 90 in 100 minutes in the same faultless fashion that gave him 251 in the first innings, South Australia passed the moderate ...
Article : 430 wordsSuperbly handling his crippled machine, Captain N. Buckley, pilot of the Guinea Airways' Lockheed Electra liner, brought it safely to earth at ...
Article : 213 wordsJoan Pearce (1), living at Mourilyanroad, sustained lacerations and incisions to four fingers of the right hand on Monday evening owing to ...
Article : 49 wordsThe pineapple crop of Cairns and district is almost finished, said Mr. B. Funnell, of the Agriculture Department, yesterday. However, as ...
Article : 48 wordsAt this time each year an effort is made by the Queensland Government Tourist Bureau to encourage visitors to view the Great Barrier Reef, and ...
Article : 76 wordsDuring the week-end the concrete wall being constructed on the edge of the channel in connection with the Cairns Harbour Board's reclamation ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Federal Cabinet to-day tentatively examined the proposal that the Newnes undertaking should be extended as a war-time measure to ...
Article : 172 wordsMr. J. D. Hodder, of Sydney, wh[?] claims that he discovered the sp[?] where Sir Charles Kingsford Smit[?] crashed, arrived-to-day. For the la[?] ...
Article : 177 wordsInquiries in betting circles throughout the State revealed that widespread attempts were made to effect a coup in country towns as a result of the ...
Article : 98 wordsDomestic science and manual training subjects were taken yesterday by those sitting for the State Scholarship Examination. This morning at 9.30 ...
Article : 71 words"I am delighted to see public recognition of Sister Kenny's work)," said the Minister for Health (Mr. E. M. Hanlon) to-day. He was ...
Article : 135 wordsAlthough many of the Chinese removed from lower Grafton-street when "Chinatown" was demolished several years ago, that portion of the city is ...
Article : 119 wordsThe thermometer at the Cairns Post Office yesterday recorded the following figures: Maximum, 88.6 degrees; minimum, 73.2 degrees. The ...
Article : 50 wordsPolice investigations into the cutting of the land lines to radio stations 3LO and 3DB just as the last race had started at Ascot on Saturday took ...
Article : 225 wordsThe major proportion of people in Cairns streets yesterday consisted of school children, who took the first opportunity offered during their ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the Cairns Police Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr. R. C. Grenier, P.M., Thomas William Cranswick was charged that on ...
Article : 155 wordsSeveral hundred men dismissed by the City Council when the loan funds ran out will be re-employed early next month. The exact number will not ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Federal Cabinet rejected request of the mining unions th[?] special tribunal should be create[?] deal with industrial conditions. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe combined unions' meeting to-day overrode the decision of the Trades and Labour Council to claim a basic wage of £5 for adult males. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe weather forecast for Queensland, issued at 5 p.m. yesterday for the ensuing 24 hours, is: Warm to hot and sultry, with isolated thunder in ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Tue 19 Dec 1939, Page 6
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