The Minister for Agriculture and Stock (Mr. F. W. Bulcock) sold to-day that the withdrawal of the Buffalo Fly Bill was actuated by ...
Article : 118 wordsAs a result of recent legislation, the revenue of the Australian Broadcasting Commission has been reduced by £120,000. The chairman ...
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Family Notices : 171 wordsAffer being lost at sea for five days, a 35-foot fishing smack was towed into Byron Bay late last night by a coastal steamer. The three ...
Article : 110 wordsRussia's attitude to the Japan-Axis pact is attracting great attention. The Moscow radio claims that Russia had been told of the pact in advance, but ...
Article : 357 wordsThe State President of the Returned Soldiers League (Mr. R. D. Huish), who is also a Trustee of the Queensland Patriotic Fund, arrived in Cairns by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsIn these eventful times we of the remaining free peoples are writing by our acts, by the expressions of our faith in the power ...
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Article : 46 wordsThe Minister for Transport (Mr. J. Larcombe) has advised Mr. J. O'Keefe, M.L.A. for Cairns, that approval has been given for the expenditure of a ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is officially announced that the submarine Osiris sank an Italian destroyer by torpedo in the Adriatic Sea on September 22. The Admiralty ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 wordsThis afternoon a popular programme of patriotic music will be Tendered at Gordonvale by the Cairns Railway Band. The band will leave at 2 p.m., ...
Article : 45 wordsClifford Smith, an employee of Hancocks plyworks at Cairns, sustained a probable fracture of a bone in his right foot and abrasions to ankle when a crate ...
Article : 53 wordsA jury in the Supreme Court to-day expressed disgust at the manner in which Bega and South Coast Broadcasters Ltd. Radio Station had ...
Article : 200 wordsShortly after midnight on Thursday light rain s[?]t in and on Friday morning heavy rain fell in Cairns and along the coastal areas. The rain also ...
Article : 64 wordsExperienced railway men among the A.I.F. in Egypt have taken over the operation of the railway from Alexandria to the front. Their engineers also ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsFollowing representations made by Mr. J. O'Keefe, M.L.A. for Cairns, to the Minister for Works, Mr. H. Bruce, recently notified Mr. O'Keefe that ...
Article : 74 wordsThe name of Mr. G. F. Hudson (secretary of the Innisfail District Cane Growers' Association) has been freely mentioned as a possible candidate in the ...
Article : 82 wordsWeekly parades of the R.S.L. Volunteer Defence Corps have been attracting good attendances, but experience has proved that Tuesday night is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsMembers of the Amalgamated Engineering Union at Mt. Isa ceased work to-day. The management is expected to ask the Industrial Court ...
Article : 117 wordsWhen [?] iron band off the mast of a boat at Mourilyan Harbour broke away it struck W. Baird, a seaman. on the left arm. causing an injnry. He ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsJoseph Schin[?]el, engine-driver, [?] charged in the Summons Court at Babinda on Thursday, before Mr. R. C. Grenier. P.M., with having used a ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Secretary for State (Mr. Cordell Hull) described Mr. Chamberlain as, one of England's notable statesmen of his period. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 217 wordsAlthough a meeting of parties concerned in the waterside dispute agreed on terms of settlement, the shipping company refused to accept the ...
Article : 72 wordsSix thousand five hundred men of the A.I.F. marched through Sydney to-day with the disciplined step of veterans. They marched along streets ...
Article : 100 wordsOwing to the rise in cattle prices. Brisbane butchers from Monday will increase the price of beef by 1d a lb. all round. Cattle prices have been ...
Article : 72 wordsA round-up of straying stock in the city area was made on Thursday and about 40 h[?]ad were collected and placed in the po[?]nd yard. Owners desiring ...
Article : 96 wordsLess than 36 hours after the begin ning of the inquest into the death of his 19-year-old bride. in a motor smash. the body of Flying-Officer Keith ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 209 wordsLeading Aircraftsman Rodney Muller, of St. Morice, South Australia, was killed when a Royal Australian Air Force plane in which he was engaged ...
Article : 70 wordsAs a result of the drought, Queensland's wheat crop is expected to be about 4.000.000 bushels compared with last year's 7,000,000. The ...
Article : 39 wordsThe British Bombing Victims' Fund now totals £11,032. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe United States Secretary for War (Mr. H. L. Stimson) has announced that the first American parachute battalion of 500 men is being formed at Fort Benning. ...
Article : 40 wordsSignor Mussolini met Herr Hitler in [?]renner Pass. Talks were started in [?] Duce's train and are expected to last two hours ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is officially announced that His Majesty's yacht Sappho has been sunk, probably by a mine. There were some casualties. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Sat 5 Oct 1940, Page 4
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