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  2. INQUEST INTO DEATH OF MAN WHO JUMPED FROM HOSPITAL VERANDAH

    William Henry Young (25), who jumped to his death from the verandah of the Cairns District Hospital on November 30, told a police officer and a nurse, before he died, that he had had to do it as he kept seeing, ...

    Article : 149 words
  3. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 189 words
  4. RADIO LISTENERS PUT TO SLEEP BY PSYCHO-ANALYST

    SYDNEY, Jan. 6. —More than 300 persons were put to sleep by radio in an experimental mass hypnosis broadcast over a Sydney ...

    Article : 506 words
  5. STRIKE AT NANANGO TIMBER MILL

    BRISBANE, Jan. 6. —The strike of seven engine drivers and firemen at the timber mill at Nanango, which has already resulted in 80 ...

    Article : 477 words
  6. BETTER CONDITIONS NEEDED

    BRISBANE, Jan. 6.—Women want a world of peace—but are willing to take up the sword for the people on the land. They want ...

    Article : 354 words
  7. POWER-HUNGRY LABOUR.

    It is typical of propaganda that remote possibilities should be presented as virtual certainties and that arguments should ...

    Article : 743 words
  8. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.

    T.C. (Martyn-street).—When the Caircs-Mareeba line was first built it did take a slightly different route from the present one and went through the ...

    Article : 30 words
  9. FORMER NURSE'S EVIDENCE.

    Constance Joy Pelling, a former nurse of the Cairns-District Hospital, said in evidence that on November 30. about 5.30, a.m. she was making ...

    Article : 604 words
  10. FROM THE LOCAL SPHERE Fell on Oyster Shell.

    Ronald Moon, a scholar of Lake-street, suffered two incised wounds to the knee yesterday when be fell on to a sharp oyster shell. He was given ambulance ...

    Article : 49 words
  11. Rainfall Recordings.

    Rainfalls recorded by the Railway Department for the various centres for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday were: Dceral 114 points. Gordonvale 45, ...

    Article : 51 words
  12. Sub-Inspector Transferred.

    Sub-Inspector M. Elford leaves on Friday morning's mail train for Rockhampton to which place he has been transferred. He will be accompanied by ...

    Article : 62 words
  13. MANUFACTURED GOODS' EXPORT

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 6.- —Manufacturers will not be allowed to export 10 per cent of their production without Go erninent approval, the Minister for ...

    Article : 158 words
  14. Cyclone Centre Off Thursday Island.

    A storm warning issued by the Weather Bureau at 4.30 p.m. yesterday, stated that a small cyclonic centre in the vicinity of Thursday Island, with a ...

    Article : 67 words
  15. Cairns Weather Report.

    The thermometer at the Cairns Weather Office yesterday recorded the following figures: Maximum 86.2 at 1.15 p.m. minimum 78.6 degrees. The ...

    Article : 70 words
  16. Inquest inte Coloured Woman's Death

    The Inquest was also heard yesterday Into the death of Florence Gibson, the coloured woman allegedly strangled by William Henry ...

    Article : 1,238 words
  17. PREMIER TO VISIT SYDNEY

    BRISBANE, Jan. 6. —The Premier (Mr. E. M.Hanlon) is making another mystery visit to Sydney. He said to-night that he would leave Brisbane on ...

    Article : 107 words
  18. WATERFRONT TROUBLE IN MELBOURNE OVER 40-HOUR WEEK

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 6. —Water front trouble over the introduction of the 40-hour week, to-day spread to two more important wharf unions, ...

    Article : 162 words
  19. Weather Forecast.

    The Brisbane Weather Bureau, yesterday telegraphed the following State weather forecast: Mainly fine, but unsettled with moderate to heavy falls of ...

    Article : 64 words
  20. EMPLOYEES' REST PAUSES

    BRISBANIA Jan. 5.—With 10-miaute [?] morning and afternoon, as presafted in the majority of awards, ene potential maximum working hours ...

    Article : 164 words
  21. INNISFAIL LAND SALE

    INNISFAIL, Jan. 6.—At the Land Commissioner's Court to-day. Mr. T. A. Eaton. Deputy Land Commissioner presiding, an application by John Patrick ...

    Article : 179 words
  22. Cane Harvest Labour.

    In discussing the possibility of having Baltic and Polish migrants to assist in the sugar harvest. this year, the general secretary of the Australian ...

    Article : 88 words
  23. PERMIT FOR N.S.W. FACTORY

    SYDNEY, Jan. 6.- —The State Government has given Nuffield Australia Pty. Ltd. a permit to build a £60,000 aircraft hangar at Victoria Park racecourse for ...

    Article : 165 words
  24. DEATH OF AGED MAN IN FIRE

    SYDNEY, Jan. 6. —A man has been arrested, following police inquiries into a fire at West Wyalong golf Club house, in which a 72-year-old man was burned ...

    Article : 107 words
  25. Honrs for Watering of Gardens

    The Cairns City Council advises that owing to the replenishment of the supply, it is now possible to permit watering as follows: —By means of ...

    Article : 132 words
  26. TECHNICAL COLLEGES

    BRISBANE, Jan. 6—The Director-General of Education (Mr. L. D. Edwards) released for publication to-day the results of the examinations of ...

    Article : 465 words
  27. PRECARIOUS FIRST AID TASK FOR AMBULANCE MEN

    BRISBANE, Jan. 6.—Three ambulance bearers treated a workman, with both legs broken, on a three-foot platform over a 38-foot pit, at the city ...

    Article : 136 words
  28. HOTEL FORTERS ROBBED

    SYDNEY, Jan. 6. —Two armed bandits, shortly before 11 o'clock to-night, held up three porters in the Hotel Arcadia, Pitt-street. They made an unsuccessful ...

    Article : 66 words
  29. SHOPPING MOVEMENTS

    [?] from New Zealand, [?] Crims middle of this month. Loads 500 tons of maize for discharge at Marseilles and or Algiers. ...

    Article : 187 words
  30. COUNTRY ABATTOIRS

    BRISBANE, Jan. 6.—The establishment of country abattoirs, starting with the major cities, is now receiving the attention of the Government, said the ...

    Article : 76 words
  31. SMALL CYCLONE REPORTED

    BRISBANE, Jan. 6.—A small, cyclone, the first of the season, was located to-day centred on Thursday Island and a cyclone warning was sent to ...

    Article : 122 words
  32. INCOME TAX RELIEF

    CANBERRA, Jan. 6. —The Prime Minister (Mr.J. B. Chifley) said to-day that he had not yet considered the question of income tax relief this financial year. ...

    Article : 61 words
  33. WHOLESALE PRICE OF FOOTWEAR

    BRISBANE, Jan. 6. —An increase of 4 per cent in the wholesale price of footwear was announced by the Deputy Prices Commissioner (Mr. Lindsey) ...

    Article : 79 words
  34. WHITE TEACHERS FOR TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS CHOSEN

    BRISBANE, Jan. 6.—Fifty teachers throughout Australia applied for three vacancies to teach Torres Strait Islanders. The jobs have been allotted to ...

    Article : 179 words
  35. ARTIFICIAL RAIN TESTS

    SYDNEY, Jan. 6. —Two months of the genuine article have seriously hindered attempts by Sydney scientists to produce artificial rain. The ...

    Article : 101 words
  36. FINAL EXAMINATIONS CONDEMNED.

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 6. —Speaking at the annual conference of the Australian Teachers' Federation, the president (Mr. H. Loader) said that ...

    Article : 125 words
  37. FARM TRACTOR SHORTAGE

    BRISBANE, Jan. 6.—More that 15,000. farming tractors are needed immediately in Australia, the secretary of the Council of Agriculture ...

    Article : 121 words
  38. OBITUARY.

    Mrs. Maria Tonta, who died at her home in Silkwood on Saturday morning. December 27, 1947. was 86 years of age. ...

    Article : 121 words
  39. VOCATIONAL TRAINING SCHEME

    BRISBANE, Jan. 6.—Seven thousand six hundred and eighty-six ex-servicemen and women have begun full-time courses in Queensland since the ...

    Article : 91 words
  40. NO FOLIO EPIDEMIC EXPECTED BEFORE 1949

    BRISBANE, Jan. 6. —Queensland does not expect an Infantile paralysis epidemic before 1949, the State Director-General of Health (Dr. Fryberg) ...

    Article : 55 words
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