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Family Notices : 518 wordsThe Mungana again lay idle at the Cairns wharves yesterday because the accumulation of ashes in the stoke-hole has prevented steam being raised for working the ship's winches. The ship's ...
Article : 535 wordsCANBERRA, Mar. 14.—From midnight till 2 o'clock this morning when the House of Representatives adjourned till 10.30 o'clock, ...
Article : 747 wordsPresident Truman's decision, to [?]end assistance to Greece and Turkey makes it clear that once Congress has endorsed the ...
Article : 737 wordsBRISBANE, Mar. 14—To meet the acute timber shortage, the C.O.D. has started a campaign to induce fruit growers to set asid[?] ...
Article : 271 wordsMELBOURNE. Mar. 14.—Neither the Chief Judge of the Arbitration Court [?] the Court itself could compel any party to make an application ...
Article : 338 words"I do not think there is anyone in Australia who has done as much for the Ambulance in the past 13 years as Mr. Cominos." said the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 569 wordsLONDON, Mar. 13 (A.A.P.)—A thousand passengers, including many women and children, are spending a second night huddled in a snowbound ...
Article : 130 wordsCANBERRA, Mar. l4.—The Minis[?] for Defence (Mr. J. J. Dedman) fold Mr. B. Corser (C.P., Qld.) in the House of Representatives to-day that he ...
Article : 77 wordsHooley, whom I met for the first time to-day, looked strangely shamefaced throughout our interview. It was rather puzzling. There, was ...
Article : 408 wordsBRISBANE, Mar. 14,—The only produce at Roma-street to-day was three lines of pumpkins at 7/[?] to 5/9, while other lines were passed in at 7/- to 4/6. ...
Article : 47 wordsBRISBANE, Mar. 14.—The Labour Minister (Mr. V. C. Gair) announced to-night that from March 23 all fish sold by the Queensland Fish Board would be ...
Article : 147 words"I really didn't want the horse, explained Lionel Giblen this after noon. "I was quite interested in him He was a fine animal but I didn't like ...
Article : 348 wordsMembers of the Mungana's stoke bole crew said yesterday that the only objection they had to working until 5 p.m. was that they considered it un ...
Article : 57 wordsAll the stored sugar manufactured last season at Mourilyan Mill is now out of the factory and on railway trucks awaiting haulage to Mourilyan Harbour for ...
Article : 52 wordsSupplies of vegetables have improved slightly and southern cabbage is now in supply equal to meet all requirements. Fruit is beginning to ...
Article : 311 wordsSYDNEY, Mar. 14.—Another stoppage of tram and busmen is threatened in Sydney. Strikes are possible on three separate issues—the proposal of the ...
Article : 146 wordsA small consignment of potatoes reached Innisfail yesterday from the south and this will temporarily relieve the shortage. Onions continue in meagre ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Johnstone, Shire Council proposes to borrow £10,500 to provide a footway on Jubilee bridge, also to strengthen the structure. The Government bas decided ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Registrar of the Supreme Court (Mr. J. Shannon) at Townsville has granted probate in the will of Frederick William Verrenkamp, late of ...
Article : 49 wordsBRISBANE, Mar. 14.—For four breaches of the National Security (Prices) Regulations, four six-months gaol terms, and four fines totalling £400 were ...
Article : 209 wordsEx-servicemen who have applied, or wish to apply, for assignments of sugar land in the Hambledon Mill area under The War Services (Sugar, Industry) ...
Article : 68 wordsD[?]ana O'Ganaghan, a three-year-old child from Coen, will have travelled 1500 miles by air in less than two days, without her parents, when she arrives ...
Article : 79 wordsBRISBANE, Mar. 14.—The strike by English seamen on six British ships in Australia ended to-day when the men were notified that their present wages ...
Article : 63 wordsCairns bakers have received no word, from the Bread Manufacturers' Association regarding the threatened bread strike, said the president of the ...
Article : 96 wordsA few weeks ago a notice to quit was given to Mr. Gloag on Mrs. Loraine's behalf. When Mr. Loraine died soon after he came home from a ...
Article : 447 wordsWhen Dixan at the end[?] of his da[?] toil last Friday went to the was[?] room he left the tap running afte[?] washing his hands. The tap was no ...
Article : 357 wordsWhe cutting a log in the Palmerston area, Patrick McAlonon sustained serious injuries to the left foot owing to the axe skidding. Arteries were ...
Article : 59 wordsWorking 100[?]per cent, for export, the British piano industry is now producing about 1000 pianos a month—an annual value of £1,000,000. Men and machines from the industry were turned to other work during the war years, but the come-back has been swift and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 142 wordsTourist bookings, for Easter are expected to be very heavy, said an official of the Tourist Bureau yesterday. A number of tours of the Cairns ...
Article : 129 wordsShipping agents yesterday advised the following movements of ships:- Munrana held up at Cairns due to strike. ...
Article : 101 wordsAt the monthly meeting ot the Innisfail Sub-branch of the R.S.S.A.LL.A. on Wednesday night, the president (Mr. W. Richardson) said that ...
Article : 89 wordsThe death occurred in Cairns yesterday of Mr. Arthur Cecil Shipton, aged 64. He was a pioneer and son of a pioneer, after whom Shinton's Flat, ...
Article : 66 wordsBRISBANE, Mar. 14.—Mr. Frederick W. Tritton (81), a Brisbane furniture retailer, died at his home at Clayfield, On Thursday night. He was the founder ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday before Messrs. E. L. Moore and W. Hansen. J's.P., Alfred George Griffiths, a seaman of Sydney, was ordered ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Brisbane weather Bureau yesterday telegraphed the following State forecast: Mainly fine. Scattered light coastal showers and isolated evening ...
Article : 86 wordsWASHINGTON, Mar. 13 (A.A.P.).— The Bureau of labour statistics reported that the index of wholesale prices last week reached a figure of 37.4 per cent, ...
Article : 42 wordsSYDNEY, Mar. 14.—Cyril O'Qrady (32), Waterloo, who was severely burnt in the explosion at Ormonoid factory, Rosebery on Wednesday, died to-day. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Sat 15 Mar 1947, Page 5
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