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, ...
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Family Notices : 189 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 6. —More than 300 persons were put to sleep by radio in an experimental mass hypnosis broadcast over a Sydney ...
Article : 506 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 6. —The strike of seven engine drivers and firemen at the timber mill at Nanango, which has already resulted in 80 ...
Article : 477 wordsBRISBANE, 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 wordsIt is typical of propaganda that remote possibilities should be presented as virtual certainties and that arguments should ...
Article : 743 wordsT.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 wordsConstance 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 wordsRonald 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 wordsRainfalls 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 wordsSub-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 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 6.- —Manufacturers will not be allowed to export 10 per cent of their production without Go erninent approval, the Minister for ...
Article : 158 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe Inquest was also heard yesterday Into the death of Florence Gibson, the coloured woman allegedly strangled by William Henry ...
Article : 1,238 wordsBRISBANE, 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 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 6. —Water front trouble over the introduction of the 40-hour week, to-day spread to two more important wharf unions, ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Brisbane Weather Bureau, yesterday telegraphed the following State weather forecast: Mainly fine, but unsettled with moderate to heavy falls of ...
Article : 64 wordsBRISBANIA Jan. 5.—With 10-miaute [?] morning and afternoon, as presafted in the majority of awards, ene potential maximum working hours ...
Article : 164 wordsINNISFAIL, 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 wordsIn 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 wordsSYDNEY, 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 wordsSYDNEY, 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 wordsThe 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 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 6—The Director-General of Education (Mr. L. D. Edwards) released for publication to-day the results of the examinations of ...
Article : 465 wordsBRISBANE, 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 wordsSYDNEY, 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[?] from New Zealand, [?] Crims middle of this month. Loads 500 tons of maize for discharge at Marseilles and or Algiers. ...
Article : 187 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 6.—The establishment of country abattoirs, starting with the major cities, is now receiving the attention of the Government, said the ...
Article : 76 wordsBRISBANE, 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 wordsCANBERRA, 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 wordsBRISBANE, 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 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 6.—Fifty teachers throughout Australia applied for three vacancies to teach Torres Strait Islanders. The jobs have been allotted to ...
Article : 179 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 6. —Two months of the genuine article have seriously hindered attempts by Sydney scientists to produce artificial rain. The ...
Article : 101 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 6. —Speaking at the annual conference of the Australian Teachers' Federation, the president (Mr. H. Loader) said that ...
Article : 125 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 6.—More that 15,000. farming tractors are needed immediately in Australia, the secretary of the Council of Agriculture ...
Article : 121 wordsMrs. Maria Tonta, who died at her home in Silkwood on Saturday morning. December 27, 1947. was 86 years of age. ...
Article : 121 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 6.—Seven thousand six hundred and eighty-six ex-servicemen and women have begun full-time courses in Queensland since the ...
Article : 91 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 6. —Queensland does not expect an Infantile paralysis epidemic before 1949, the State Director-General of Health (Dr. Fryberg) ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Wed 7 Jan 1948, Page 5
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