At an early hoar on Friday morning an enemy plane visited Mossman district and dropped a bomb which fell alongside the residence ...
Article : 1,077 wordsRumours that the Volunteer Defence Corps is to be reduced in'strength, and that men would be asked to leave the corps were denied to-day ...
Article : 120 wordsScattered aerial activity ia reported ia to-day's eomsBaniqne. A single" Japanese flying boat made aa ineffectual night raid, on Port ...
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Family Notices : 90 wordsTownsville people, now in the firing line, had set an example for the rest of Australia, the Supply Mininster (Mr. Beasley) said in. ...
Article : 125 wordsIf anyone deserves to be cherished and catered for it is our gallant defenders, the men of our fighting services said His ...
Article : 1,255 wordsThe annual ram sales usually held in Brisbane in August to coincide with the Exhibition will not be held this year, This has been decided on by the brokers ...
Article : 100 wordsBy special arrangements. Realter's World Service, in addition to other special sources of Information, is used in the compilation of the Overseas ...
Article : 83 wordsA black market for potatoes is operating in Sydney. Prosecutions against several dealers are under consideration. This was announced to-day by the ...
Article : 62 wordsAustralia's women soldiers have been under fire on the home front for the first time. When Japanese bombs were aimed from night skies at Townsville ...
Article : 343 wordsConscription of certain hotels in garrison cities and towns for use as canteen-hostels for service men is a feature of a complete plan of liquor ...
Article : 358 wordsThere was a good attendance for drill at the Cairns Fire Station yesterday morning, and the service and members are in tull working order. The ...
Article : 39 wordsThe increase in hostage shootings in occupied countries is attributed partly to increased resistance, but still more to the ...
Article : 809 wordsThe maximum retail prices for the principal kinds of Fish in Brisbane will probably be fixed next Friday. The prices will be based on the average ...
Article : 116 wordsAdvice bas been received in Cairns that those schools which have not yet given effect to the gazette notice of July (stating that teachers were, to ...
Article : 47 wordsProbate was granted by the Registrar of the Supreme Court (Mr. J. Shannon) on Thursday morning, in the will of James Thomas Griffiths, of ...
Article : 63 wordsThe "Daily News" Washington correspondent says the War Production Board entered into an agreement with Eugene Hourdry, inventor of the Hourdry ...
Article : 70 wordsEntry was gained to domestic quarters at the Empire notel on Saturday night when the inmates were ' absent, and cash, torches, a fountain pen and ...
Article : 65 wordsOn Saturday, O. Brighton (49), residing in Upward-street, received a lacerated wound to the right side of the forehead, and concussion and ...
Article : 118 wordsEighty per cent, of sole leather was being used for the defence forces and five per cent, for belting for war factories, leaving 15 per cent, for the boots ...
Article : 84 wordsOn Saturday afternoon at the playground. of the High Sphool Cairns. Messrs. C. R. Lulham and R. S. Potter, of the Department of Health and Home ...
Article : 140 wordsThe sale af tobacco only on presentation of coupons, as now applies to tea. was urged in a resolution carried by the annual meeting of the Riverina branch ...
Article : 76 wordsProposals for a Commonwealth-wide drive against cargo pilfering on the Australian waterfront are likely to be submitted to the Premiers' Conference ...
Article : 181 wordsAustralia's 70-year-old Primate (Archbishop Le Fanu. of Perth) admitted to-day that he had never believed in prohibition. Many years ago, ...
Article : 118 wordsIt would be unnecessary for Mr. Curtin to visit the coalfields, because production was at his highest peak, the secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Minister for Public Works (Mr. H. A. Bruce), accompanied by the Member for Maryborough (Mr. D. Farrell) and the Minister's Secretary ...
Article : 190 wordsResponsibility rested on the Commonwealth to devise measures by which liquor abuses could be dealt with on a nation-wide basis, the ...
Article : 202 wordsThe net revenue of the PostmasterGeneral's Department (Queensland) for July was £286,347. compared with £230.744 for July. 1941. ...
Article : 44 wordswe nave to suppress cargo broaching, especially in war time." Mr. P. G. Knyvett, S.M., said in the Police Court yesterday, when he fined Harry Isedale ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. and Mrs. J. H. Gunther, of Herberton, received news yesterday that their son Andy had been killed in action, in the Mddle East. He enlisted ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Consul for China in Australia Mr. W. Y. Tsao), in a broadcast on Sautrday night, said that all the misunderstanding between Australia and ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Japanese now appear to have consolidated their newly won bases in the Gona-Buna district and have pushed inland to around Kokoda. ...
Article : 281 wordsFar-western cattlemen say that elasticsldLboots reuire too many coupons. ' When droving, men wear this type of boot exclusively for seven days a week, ...
Article : 98 wordsShortage of liquor supplies has extended to wine shops, and many are now closing early. At very few is it possible to buy a bottle to take away, ...
Article : 51 wordsThe death occurred in Sydney on Saturday of Mr. C. M. ("Cedar") Clarke, who about 18 years ago was very well known in the Chillagoe area. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Opposition seeks a review of thi work of the Department of War Organisation of Industry. The Opposition Leader (Mr. Fadden) ...
Article : 189 wordsThe customs Munster (Senator Keane) and the Aircraft Production Minister (Senator Cameron) are among those nominated to represent Labour at next ...
Article : 94 wordsL.A.C. J. D. Hamilton, R.A.A.F., passed away at Maryborough recently. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Hamilton, of Meringa, and was aged 20 ...
Article : 82 wordsScenes of the severe earthquake on June 25 of Eketahuna and Masterton experienced two inore severe shocks. The first occurred at 4.50 p.m. on Saturday, ...
Article : 116 wordsLeading Aircraftman W. Hamilton, of Gordonvale, was fatally injured, and Leading Aircraftman E. Sacre, of Bowen, was injured in a road accident ...
Article : 97 wordsWitnin three months. New South Wales rural work would take 10,000 more of the Women's Land Army, the Deputy Director of Man-power (Mr. Bellemore) said ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Berlin radio says that British submarines attempted to contact the Yugoslav guerrillas oS the Adriatic coast, but the attempt was frustrated. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe "Herald, Tribune" military com mentator (Major Eliot) says that there are disturbing indications that the Japanese are regaining the strategic ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Mon 3 Aug 1942, Page 4
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