Concern was expressed at the monthly meeting of the Cairns Harbour Board yesterday afternoon at recent stetements in the Press and by radio that Mackay was the only port outside Brisbane which could provide a ...
Article : 1,826 wordsTrains will run between Cairns and Townsville to-day after some days' hold-up caused by the rains. Another train for Cairns, due here ...
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Family Notices : 158 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 13.—Regulations for the strict control of aliens within Australia were gazetted to-night by the Minister for ...
Article : 325 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 13.—Three children were slightly injured and a young woman suffered shock when a 60-mile an hour tornadic ...
Article : 234 wordsA concerted move by Queensland and New South Wales is now beginning to secure the return to the States of their power ...
Article : 719 wordsMaurice Asale, a labourer employed by the Gas Company, crushed the top of his left thumb yesterday when he caught it in the door of a rail waggon. ...
Article : 57 wordsMichael Davitt Fitzgerald (28), wharf labourer, pleaded guilty in the Police Court yesterday before Mr. W. E. McKenna, S.M., to a charge of having ...
Article : 58 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 13.—Mines Department officials expect to be inundated with mineral samples following the Federal Government's offer of ...
Article : 247 wordsRainfalls recorded for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday by the Railway Department were: Babinda 485 points, Deeral 389, Gordonvale 295, Cairns 465, ...
Article : 66 wordsINNISFAIL, Jan. 12.—There are nearly 34,000 tons of sugar stored in the Innisfail area, being the balance of last season's manufacture at the ...
Article : 194 wordsMr; M. Cremer, housewife, of East Innisfail, suffered two punctured wounds in the left thumb when she was bitten by a centipede. She was ...
Article : 67 wordsINNISFAIL, Jan. 13.—After a fine morning rain set in at about 4 p.m. and continued into the night. It was of a torrential nature after dark. ...
Article : 158 wordsAbout 40 police officers from Cairns and surrounding districts attended the funeral on Monday of Sergeant John Connolly, who died after a fall from a ...
Article : 112 wordsMOSSMAN, Jan. 13.—A further 277 points of rain was recorded at the Post Office for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. to-day. Since January 1, every ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Cairns Show Association's new mower, which arrived last week-end was assembled by Mr. E. Tanner, a member of the committee, and given its first ...
Article : 121 wordsSir,—It has often been stated that [?] could and should be made in the cairns district and when interested people hold that the market is not ...
Article : 184 wordsSeventeen men pleaded guilty to traffic breaches and were fined various amounts in the Summons Court yesterday before Mr. W. E. McKenna, S.M. ...
Article : 467 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 13.—The need to finance an estimated gap of £30 million this financial year was advanced by a high Government spokesman ...
Article : 145 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 13.—A snowstorm was not far from Brisbane to-day, according to the pilot of a Skymaster which arrived from San ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsThe Brisbane Weather Bureau yesterday telegraphed the following State weather forecast: Further rain with local heavy falls on the North Coast, ...
Article : 114 wordsRepresentatives of the pearling industry in Thursday Island and of Brisbane and overseas interests met at the Criterion Hotel, Cairns, last ...
Article : 295 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 13.£Two detectives hid for eight and a half hours in bushes on the bank of the Maribyrnong River last night watching a stolen car ...
Article : 193 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 13.—Three Queenslanders will be among the 20 Australian bishops to attend the Lambeth conference in Londan in July. They are the ...
Article : 74 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 13.—The "honeymoon" on the northern coal fields of New South Wales has apparently ended with the miners' Christmas holidays despite ...
Article : 81 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 13.—Mr. T. E. Maloney, General Manager of the Southern Division, was selected by Cabinet to-day to succeed Mr. P. R. T. Wills as ...
Article : 142 wordsMACKAY, Jan. 13.—Hospitals in Mackay are facing serious problems owing to an acute shortage of trained nursing staff and the introduction of ...
Article : 192 words[?] from New Zealand, [?] Cairns middle of this month. Loads 5000 tons of [?] for discharge at Marseilles and or Algiers. ...
Article : 237 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 13.—A Prices Branch official win leave Brisbane on Thursday for western towns where bakers are on strike. Announcing the appointment of ...
Article : 97 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 13.—The Queensland Dairymen's Organisation to-day pressed for an early decision on their claim for a rise of 4d. a gallon for ...
Article : 110 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 13.—Engine drivers and firemen on the Queensland railways are refusing to work more than eight hours overtime a week, the ...
Article : 149 wordsThese are seven smooth-skin pineapples which grew on the one stem on Mr. A. W. Jones' pineapple plantation near Tally. The freak resulted from normal ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 41 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 13.—Prime lucerne chaff was sought at Roma-street today. when clearances of this commodity were made at 12/6 to 8/-. Other ...
Article : 114 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 13.—The Prime Minister (Mr. J. B. Chifley) has announced that the Secretary to the Commonwealth Treasury (Mr. S. C. ...
Article : 71 wordsDUBLIN, Jan. 12 (A.A.P.).—The President (Mr. Sean O'Kelly) has dissolved the Dail and ordered a general election for February 4. The ...
Article : 54 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 13.—In the next month before Parliament meets, the Prime Minister (Mr. J. B. Chifley) is expected to visit Queensland for talks ...
Article : 57 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 13.—The [?] on rents, prices and charges will not be held before the end of May. The Prime Minister (Mr. J. B. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Wed 14 Jan 1948, Page 5
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