No applications have been received for the position of clerk to the Cairns-Mulgrave Water Board, though numerous advertisements ...
Article : 892 wordsRainfalls recorded at the various centres by the Railway Department for the 24 hous ended 9 a.m. yesterday were: Cairns 60 points, Deeral 70, Gordonvale 16, ...
Article : 53 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—The only brake to the progressive improvement of Queensland coastal ports will be a shortage of the necessary equipment, said a Government official to-day. Queensland harbour authorities ...
Article : 290 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8—Road work, involving an eatimater expenditure of £88,947, which the Tresurer (Mr. J. Laroombe) ...
Article : 466 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 8.—A drive to double, if possible, the present Australian annnal exports of about 65,000 tons of butter to Britain ...
Article : 470 wordsHider hoped and tried to achieve his ends without resorting to war. So does Stalin. There came a day when the ...
Article : 580 wordsThe report of Maternal and Child Welfare Centre, Atherton, for December, states: Attendance during month: Atherton 186, Herberton 37, Malanda 31, ...
Article : 51 wordsThe launch Merinda has arrived in Townsville from Cairns, having been exchanged temporarily for the Malita. She will undergo overhaul there and ...
Article : 58 wordsExecutive approval was given yesterday to a set of water by-laws made by the Woothakata Shire Council to govern the supply at Mount Mulligan, ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Executive Council yesterday approved the setting aside of an area containing 12 acres in the parish of Cordelia as a reserve for local ...
Article : 59 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—A 500-mile journey to salvage a Dutch Dakota was made by two Sydney contractors, V. Stockley and M. Sheridan, ...
Article : 181 wordsOrders-in-Conncil were made yesterday authorising the Cardwell Shire Council to borrow £5064 by the sale of debentures to the Australian Mutual ...
Article : 60 wordsThe destruction of 37 sea mines which had broken away from the minefields off the North Queensland coast is the proud record of the ...
Article : 59 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 8.—Some change in the defence plans for the Pacific will probably be necessary as the result of the withdrawal of British ...
Article : 195 wordsLast night's A.N.A. plane left Townsville on schedule, but shortly afterwards the pilot received word that owing to the bad weather the ...
Article : 65 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 8.—Witch doctors were abandoned when New Guinea natives heard that Australian doctors were giving injections in their native ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—An Acacia Ridge dairy farmer was fined £269 in the Summons Court to-day by Mr. J. E. Landy, S.M., on eight complaints of ...
Article : 273 wordsGeneral meetings of Mulgrave growers will be held in the mill office on January 13, commencing at 2 p.m. These meetings will elect one delegate to attend the ...
Article : 92 wordsAn engine cleaner at the locosheds had his foot badly crushed yesterday morning when an engine ran on to it. Later, the ...
Article : 127 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—The Executive Council to-day approved of an extension of the Banana and Papaw Levy Regulations under the Fruit Marketing ...
Article : 173 wordsA review of the revenue received at Dimbulah telephone exchange has been carried out, and the following amended hours were introduced from ...
Article : 88 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 8.—New uniforms closely resembling the present uniform of officers, will be issued to all ranks of the Australian military forces in ...
Article : 190 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—Because so few pearling luggers now are operating from Thursday Island in comparison with pre-war years, the Dutch are ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Brisbane Weather Bureau yesterday telegraphed the following State weather forecast: Unsettled with rain and local heavy falls on the North Coast ...
Article : 82 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—In a statement read in the Police Court to-day a wanan said she knowingly committed [?] because she was expecting a ...
Article : 363 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—No big publicity campaign for attracting tourist to Queensland is planned for this year, owing to the difficulty at present of ...
Article : 208 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—Police officials do not think it likely that Joseph Ronald de Jersey Brice, a native of the Channel Islands who has not been ...
Article : 226 wordsThe secretaries of the Queensland Automobile Chamber of Commerce (Cairns and District Branch), Messrs. R. H. Crust & Co., advise that ...
Article : 101 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 8.—The Prime Minister (Mr. J. B. Chifley) to-day concluded a series of discussions on the defence of Australia which may ...
Article : 191 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 8.—"I do not think there will be another war in our time." said the Minister for the Army (Mr. C. Chambers) to-day. ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Gordon Hill, one of the brothers who brought a truck convoy to Cairns through the Cape York Peninsula, went to Almaden this week and ...
Article : 134 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—Rain has doubled the State dairy exports to Britain and given farmers a record price return for produce. ...
Article : 133 wordsWith the proper tourist facilities big game fishing could be carried on around Cairns on a large seale and could be an added attraction to ...
Article : 228 wordsBetween 200 and 300 casas of plums, and apricots from the Granite Belt in Southern Queensland had to be dumped by the Committee of Direction of Fruit ...
Article : 241 wordsThe amalgamation of the Queensland National Bank and the National Bank of Australasia would not affect the operations of the two banks in Cairns ...
Article : 132 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 8.—One Queenslander was included among the 14 selected to attend the R.A.A.F. college at Point Cook early this [?] ...
Article : 87 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 8.—A new deal for military prisoners in detention camps has been ordered by the Army Minister (Mr. C. Chambers). He said ...
Article : 121 wordsIPSWICH, Jan. 8.—A 50-year-old labourer was arrested to-day and charged with having unlawfully wounded vincent Young (31), single, of West ...
Article : 107 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8—The Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. V. C Cair) said to-day that Messrs J. E. Lihou and W. J. Kirkpatrick have ...
Article : 102 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8 — A prociamation was issued to-day exhading from occugation under the Mining Acts of an area of about 10,000 acres near Mt. ...
Article : 79 wordsINNISFAIL, Jan. 7,—The following are the approved cane varieties for planting in the Innisfail district this year: ...
Article : 47 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—Mr. A. F. Trurran, of the Government Statistician's office, to-day was appointed secretary in the office of the Commissioner of ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Fri 9 Jan 1948, Page 5
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