The first officer of the tanker Diplodon, Henry Acton Wright, fired a revolver from the hip at the closed door of a cabin, stated Edward Baldwin, third engineer of the ship, in the Police Court ...
Article : 2,008 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Aug. 11.—Three men, who left Mt. Spce as Sunday me[?]ning to sheet turkeys in the area have not returned to the ...
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Family Notices : 240 wordsOne of the aspects of the manysided problem of giving the man on the land an adequate return for the capital he has invested ...
Article : 617 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 11.—The possibility of using aircraft to ferry immigrants from England to Australia was virtually ruled out to-day by the ...
Article : 307 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 11.—With a total, of 904 points out of a posssible 1133, the Moreton District repeated, its success of last yeer in ...
Article : 433 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 11.—Jack Arkinstall, the Northern Rivers tennis champion, to-day eliminated H. Skennar, of Brisbane, in straight sets in the Queensland ...
Article : 318 wordsThe rainfall at Innisfail in the 48 hours ended 9 o'clock yesterday morning was 26 points, making 8 inches 51 points so far this month, every day ...
Article : 46 wordsArthur John Millard (19), a R.A.N. seaman, was fined £1, in default seven days. imprisonment, when he pleaded guilty in the Police Court before Mr. ...
Article : 62 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 11.—The Federal Government will subsidise to an estimated 70 per cent, of the recent shippins freight increases approved by the ...
Article : 250 wordsThree men forfeited bail when they failed to appear before Mr. W. E. McKenna, S.M., in the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday to answer to ...
Article : 86 wordsThe District Superintendent (Mr. T. P. McLoughlin) advises the following staff changes: Station master T. M. Blakey, Redlynch, to station master, ...
Article : 83 wordsChampion Ayrshire cow or heifer, N. J. Mann's Orescent Farm Isabel the 3rd; reserve champion, J. P. Ruble's Myola Marion. Champion Ayrshire bull, M. J. ...
Article : 791 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 11.—The only produce sold at Roma-street to-day was one line of oaten chaff for 7/and one line of lucerne chaff for 11/ ...
Article : 93 wordsRembrand: due at Cairns August 18 to load Sugar, sawn timber and maize for Sydney. Malaita from Sydney, via Brisbane, ...
Article : 319 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 11.—Top price at the Brisbane ram sales to-day was 380 guineas which was stated in wool circles to-day to be the highest price ever ...
Article : 160 wordsDr. Gertrude J. Finckh, recently appointed as resident medical officer to the Cairns Hospital, arrived by air on August 9, and has now assumed ...
Article : 101 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 11.—A 40-hour week to be worked between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. In rive days, Mondays to Fridays, has been applied for to the State Industrial ...
Article : 182 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 11.—With one break for a meal, the inter-State, executive of the A.C.T.U. for 12 hours to-day sought a way out of the ...
Article : 130 wordsFive Cairns lads left by yesterday's mail train for the Brisbane Exhibition They are going under the auspiees of the Young Australia League, in charge ...
Article : 128 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 11.—The Governor-General (Mr. McKell) said to-day that Queensland with her vast resources could give a lead in Australia to help Britain ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 11 (A.A.P.).— The Kontiki raft expedition ended its 4000-mile journey on the Rarol Reef, in the Tuamotu Inlands, to-day, when, ...
Article : 61 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 11.—The partial withdrawal of subsidies from shipping freights will reduce the Government's exnenditure on this item this year to ...
Article : 86 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug, 11.—Isaac Brand, a Melbourne merchant, left his wife only, 1/- in his £32,000 will, but under a settlement approved by Mr. Justice ...
Article : 78 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 11 (A.A.P.).—A lamb with eight legs was born on a sheep station at Gisborne. It had one head and two bodies up to the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe death of Mr. William Charles Northage, who was better known among bandsmen and his fellow workers as "Cherry," has deprived the ...
Article : 217 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 11.—Railway employees in future will use up their award sick leave benefits before being retired because of disability or incapacity. ...
Article : 103 wordsA new radio system which operates over a waveband that is unused by any other form of radio or television broadcasting, is known as the V.H.F. (Very High Frequency). This system is entirely free from interference and cannot fae picked up by civilian radio receivers. It is ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 138 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 11.—Central West and Sonth West border districts received from 30 to 30 points of rain during the 48 hours ended 9 o'clock ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Board of Management of the Northern District Racing Association gave consideration at its monthly meeting yesterday afternoon to the dispute ...
Article : 175 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 11.—As a result of request from the Waterside Workers' Federation, the Minister for Supply and Shipping (Senator W. P. Annley) has ...
Article : 47 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 11.— The number of childern for whom endowment was paid by the Commonwealth Government increased from 964,531 to 1,066,557 over ...
Article : 64 wordsThe death occurred at Babinda yesterday of Mrs. Lilian Emily Weaver, wife of Mr. A. H. Weaver. Deceased was 40 years of age. Besides her ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Tue 12 Aug 1947, Page 5
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