BRISBANE, Dec. 25.—At least four person were killed and 14 injured in holiday accident in Queensland. The dead were: Raymond Thomas Marshall (13), Upper Kedron, via Ferny Grove, who was ...
Article : 264 wordsMaking its best day's mileage since leaving Higgins Field at the tip of Cape York, the Hill brothers' convoy carrying vehicles ...
Article : 799 wordsWith the world in a state of flux those who may attempt to prophesy as to what the next year will bring forth are taking ...
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Family Notices : 203 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 25.—In the Sheffield Shield match, Queensland v. South Australia, which commenced here to-day, Queensland ...
Article : 343 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 25.—Suspeeting that master bakers, faced with the necessity of baking sufficient bread to-day to last for the four ...
Article : 506 wordsE.Aspland, an employee of the Shell Co., severed the top of a finger of his right hand on Wednesday when he dropped a case on it. He was ...
Article : 50 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 25.—Robert Haire Moon (64), of Enfield, who was struck by an in-coming train at No. 18 platform at Central ...
Article : 189 wordsCases of ptomaine, poisoning through eating tinned fish occurred last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, of Draper-street, and their two children ...
Article : 53 wordsA Cape York Aero Club plane will patrol Cairns and district beaches to-day, to-morrow and Sunday on the look out for sharks. When the plane ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 25.—Two manslaughter charges were laid by the police in Sydney on Christmas Eve, one after a motor smash and the other ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 76 wordsGRAFTON, Dec. 25.—A woman and a young girl were drowned while playing ring-a-rosy on a sand bank in the Clarence River ...
Article : 274 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 25.—New South Wales secured an outright win over South Australia in the Sheffield Shield match at the Adelaide oval yesterday by ...
Article : 201 wordsWaiter Land (47) dealer of Banda-street, was struck by a car on December 24. He was given [?] first-aid by the ambulance for a deep lacerated ...
Article : 102 wordsINNISFAIL, Dec. 23—Goondi (C.S.R.) mill closed the busy season last night after having put 174,871 tons of cane through the rollers. The pay-off of ...
Article : 61 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Dec. 23.—In the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice R. J. Douglas, Francesco Toaldo-sought the dissolution of his marriage with ...
Article : 571 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 25.—Brigadier-General Sir Walter McNicoll died at his home in Rose. Bay to-day, aged 70. He was the Administrator of New Guinea from ...
Article : 89 wordsJ. Biggs (46), a worker at the Hambledon mill, and a resident of Millaa Millaa, met with a serions accident on Wednesday. He was ...
Article : 108 wordsINNISFAIL, Dec. 23—Only one factory now remains in operation in the Innisfail area— South Johnstone. The manager. (Mr. W. Richardson) ...
Article : 68 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Dec. 25.—The Inkerman Mill at Home Hill finished crushing on Wednesday morning with a tonnage of 263,260. ...
Article : 76 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 25.—The British Ministry of Food has agreed to pay an additional £3 sterling a ton on raw sugar exported after January 1 ...
Article : 203 wordsTidewater, froms New Zealand, one Cairns middle of January. Loads 5000 tons of maize for France. Khyber, from England via Bombay. ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Brownville Battery on Oakey Creek had a most successful preliminary run during the mouth under the management of Low Choy and party who ...
Article : 132 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 25.—Falling 20 feet from the bathroom window at her home in Redfern during a party last night, Doris Glover (21), married, received ...
Article : 91 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 25.—Kevin Johnson (8). of Cessnock, was drowned in the surf at Belmont to-day, after a huge wave had wrenched him from the arms ...
Article : 63 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 25.—The "eternal" flame at Anzac Square went out again to-day, during a sudden gust of wind and a shower of rain. It was relighted by ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Christmas season has brought the hospital patients and staff many kind gifts and donations from the citizens, public bodies and firms of ...
Article : 111 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 25.—The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. Murray Stewart) ruled yesterday that he could not reduce the hours of railway ...
Article : 202 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 25.—A mother fought her way through a smoke-filled room to rescue her four-year-old son when a mattress caught fire in a room of a ...
Article : 86 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 25.—Doctors yesterday warned holiday crowds to avoid Christmas poisoning by not eating on even touching strange fish they caught ...
Article : 56 wordsHONG KONG, Dec. 24 (A.A.P.Reuter).—A message from Baodai says that the ex-Emperor of Annam left incognito by B.O.A.C. aircraft for ...
Article : 40 wordsA boy and a youth, who were lost in dense jungle between Millaa Millaa and Ravenshoe for over 24 hours, were located early on Christmas eve by a ...
Article : 161 wordsIn a letter to the Prime Minister (Mr. J. B. Chifley), on December 7, Mr. J. J. Meehan, Shire Councillor of Mareeba, made representations urging ...
Article : 120 wordsThe 61st Dairy Show was held in London recently. The thousands of visitors were considerably interested in the many stands displaying new machinery for use in dairy farming. This picture shows: One of the exhibits at the show. Pipe stariliser for milk pipes and fittings. This ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 96 wordsThe District Postal Inspector (Mr. A. J. D. Tighe) advises the following movements of post office personnel:- Promotions: Mr. J. Jordan, acting ...
Article : 224 wordsThe death occurred in Cairns yesterday of Mr. Henry K. (Harry) Green Deceased was 65 years of age. For many years he had been secretary of the ...
Article : 154 wordsMrs. Ladd, a resident of Queen's Hotel and an employee of the Polar Star Coy., received first-aid from the ambulance yesterday for an incised ...
Article : 150 wordsPARIS, Dec. 23 (A.A.P.).—The Assembly approved by 323 votes to 280 the Government's new "save the fr[?]c" antiinflation Bill. Frenchmen, on a sliding ...
Article : 85 wordsAt 3 a.m. on Wednesday morning the long blasts on the mill whistle notified the end of the 1947 season when 252,987 tons of cane had passed ...
Article : 97 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (A.A.P.).— President Trumen to-day signed the emergency aid to France, Italy, Austria and China. This is the final stage of the ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Fri 26 Dec 1947, Page 5
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