The matter of the Tableland shires' representation on the Barron Falls Hydro-Electricity Board will be discussed again between the three shires ...
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Advertising : 68 wordsThe Government is standing firm on its decision to enforce the legal hours of liquor trading. Its attitude was not altered as a result of a meeting of the ...
Article : 170 wordsThe election by the Labour Party this morning of representatives on the Advisory War Council resulted in the surprise rejection of Dr. ...
Article : 149 wordsGood drinking water is so scarce at the Casino Memorial Hospital that friends are taking bottles of their own tank water to the hospital ...
Article : 120 wordsThe manufacture of machine-gun belts, for which Australia has been dependent on supplies from Great Britain, is now being undertaken ...
Article : 112 wordsDuring the debate an the Railway Department estimates in the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. W. H. Ramell said that in 1931 ...
Article : 426 wordsStrikes and threatened strikes, which occur in Australia in this time of war, are assisting the enemy, wrote a keen ...
Article : 791 wordsItalian raids on Egyptian towns so far have caused little damage because of the careful preparation made to minimise the possible ...
Article : 352 wordsAll three mothers of sailors of the H.M.A.S. Hobart, who were reported missing, believed killed, in a gallant Somaliland action of August 15 ...
Article : 285 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Treasurer (Mr. P. A. Cooper), on behalf of the Premier (Mr. Forgan Smith), told the Leader of the ...
Article : 233 wordsFrom November 23 banks throughout the Commonwealth will open and close half an hour earlier on Saturdays. The new hours will be 9.30 to ...
Article : 53 wordsKeen disappointment was expressed in Brisbane to-day at the failure of the Federal Parliamentary parties to evolve a better solution to the political ...
Article : 67 wordsAlice Rago (47), married, was found dead in bed at an hotel at Gordonvale at 5 p.m. yesterday. A post-mortem was held, and it was ascertained that ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) announced to-night that the Advisory War Council would hold its first meeting io Melbourne on Tuesday. He made the ...
Article : 975 wordswhen his foot was caught by the pedal of a bicycle yesterday afternoon, William Parsons (12), of Woree, received a lacerated wound to the left ...
Article : 62 wordsWhen he was caught against the wall of the quarry at Edge Hill by a motor truck which was backing in, Neil Squair, of Anderson-street, an employee ...
Article : 61 wordsAs the result of a truck on which he was riding capsizing when rounding the Goondi mill-Cairns-Innisfail road turn-off, Erminio Scapin, of Ingham, ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Council of the State Service Union decided last night that the Trades Union Congress be asked to call on the State Government to make up ...
Article : 198 wordsAfter unsuccessful attempts to refloat the American schooner, Director II which went aground in Port Curtis on Friday, three launches and a steam ...
Article : 90 wordsEmployees in the forging department of the Commonwealth Steel Co.'s works [?] Waratah went on strike last night. The men are protesting against ...
Article : 86 wordsThe annual report of the Public Service Commissioner (Mr. J. McCracken) refers to the increase in the number of State employees from 28,973 in 1932 ...
Article : 120 wordsThe forecast for Queensland, issued at 5 p.m. for the ensuing 24 hours, is: Mainly fine and mostly warm to hot, with north to north-east winds, but ...
Article : 60 wordsIn order to allow the A.I.F. to spend longer periods at home, members will be allowed to accumulate leave at the rate of 1½ days a week for eight weeks. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe man who waa found dead in a boarding house at Mareeba on Tuesday a few hours after his arrival in the town by train, has been identified ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsNo settlement was reached at the compulsory conference presided over by Mr. Justice O'Mara to-day in connection with the strike at the ...
Article : 71 wordsThree incendiary fires in different Darts of the building occurred at the Hotel Nelson at Nelson, where the GovernorGeneral (Lord Galway) and Lady Galway ...
Article : 130 wordsThe current Railways weekly Notice" contains the following appointtnents of interest to this district Mr. R. Maizey, of Bundaberg, has been ...
Article : 89 wordsPresident Roosevelt has created a board with sweeping powers to require production and delivery of all national defence materials ahead of prior ...
Article : 41 wordsA two-roomed house of wood and iron on the pensioners' reserve, Martyn-street occupied by Frederick Hall, was destroyed by fire yesterday ...
Article : 79 wordsAt the Babinda Summons Court on October 22 Sergeant P. J. Boyle proceeded against Carolina Garrone tor having, on September 21, been ...
Article : 139 wordsAn indictment was presented against Ernest Gordon Willis at the sittings of the Circuit Court yesterday before His Honor Mr. Justice R. J. Douglas, ...
Article : 140 wordsThe American Ambassador (Mr. J. P. Kennedy) has left the Embassy. He is shortly going to America and is not expected to return as ...
Article : 36 wordsRatepayers of Nos. 2 and 4 Divisions are reminded by the Cairns Shire Council that the closing dates for discount for those Divisions are as ...
Article : 113 wordsAtributing the continued decrease in the number of prisoners in the State to the general improvement of social conditions, education and modern ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Labour candidate for the Herbert electorate will be selected by the Q.C.B. to-morrow. The Executive met to-day to discuss the plebiscite, and the objection ...
Article : 91 wordsLieutenant-General Hyotaro Kimura has been appointed Chief of Staff of the Kwangtung Army in the place of Lieutenant-General limura, who has been ...
Article : 39 words"Just before midnight last night when the train from Townsville arrived, Constable Luddy, who was at the railway station, saw these defendants ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Queensland Institution for the Blind is doing good work in caring for those bereft of their sight. At June 30, 1940, the institution had 95 blind ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Minister for Works (Sir John Reith) has assumed the title of Lord Reith. ...
Article : 26 wordsOrdinary traffic bas been resumed on the only railway line between France and Switzerland after seven weeks of interruption. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe death occurred in Cairns on Tuesday night of Mr. John Vincent [?](55), of 97 Lake-street De[?] was born in Warwick, and had ...
Article : 81 wordsSkyward look two young men; they belong to Britain's Fleet Air Arm, the was of the mightiest Navy in the world.—Commonwealth Department of Information photo. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 27 wordsPraise for the scenic attractions around Cairns and to the manner in which the citizens had applied themselves to catering for visitors was paid ...
Article : 217 wordsThe crowd was larger than ever again last Tuesday night at the weekly camp concert held at Parramatta Park. The proceeds of the silver collection ...
Article : 192 wordsCommenting on the report that mangoes were being railed to Brisbane from Townsville, the Northern Instructor in Fruit Culture (Mr. S. E. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Thu 24 Oct 1940, Page 4
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