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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsNow that the Italian reverses in Egypt are added to those in Gre[?]ce, Mussolini will be compelled to seek German assistance. He will probably ...
Article : 387 wordsTwo radical changes in the taxation system suggested by Mr. J. H. Scullin (Lab.) in the House of Representatives to-day gave rise to ...
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Family Notices : 223 wordsNearly 10,000 men will be needed for Australia's armoured division if preliminary plans suggested by army experts are adopted by the Federal ...
Article : 277 wordsThe tender of £14,8[?]8 by J. Hutchinson and Sons, South Brisbane, for the erection of the control tower at Archerfield aerodrome has been ...
Article : 146 wordsAt the discretion of local Commanders, members of the A.I.F. in Australia are being issued with shorts and shirts for summer wear. The ...
Article : 144 wordsAn Australian delegation conducting of senior representatives of the Federal Government and the Opposition may go to Britain next ...
Article : 361 wordsMutton prices eased by a halfpenny to three farthings a pound on last week's rate at the Cannon Hill sales to-day. The public however, cannot hope for ...
Article : 91 wordsAfter the inquest at Bowral yesterdays James William O'Hara (31), gardener, was committed for trial on a Charge of having feloniously killed his ...
Article : 168 wordsA feature of the War-time Companies Bill introduced by the Treasurer (Mr. A. W. Fadden) in the House of Representatives to-day is the provision for a Board ...
Article : 486 wordsTwo air pilots undergoing training were failed instantly when a plane crashed in Canterbury during a crosscountry flight. The plane caught fire ...
Article : 59 wordsCanada, for the first time in its history, has turned toward the sea as gray naval ships increasingly represent the strongest British ...
Article : 676 wordsOld-age and invalid pensions due for payment on December 26 will be paid the preceding Thursday, December 19, Pensioners will receive 2/ extra in ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Attorney-General and Member for Cairns (Mr. J. O'Keefe) has been advised by the Minister for Transport (Mr. Larcombe) that a further ...
Article : 86 wordsAccording to information reaching London Norwegians are the latest victims of the campaign to lore workers to Germany. In support of the campaign the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 wordsIn sensational circumstances the Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) agreed Just before midnight to hold a secret session of the House of ...
Article : 90 wordsThe heaviest consignment of cherries, plums and apricots for the season arrived in Cairns this week, states the Fruit Inspector (Mr. B. ...
Article : 96 words"If Senator Collings gives me details I shall be glad to have his charges investigated," said the Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) to-day. when questioned ...
Article : 172 wordsReports from the Deputy Price Fixing Commissioners in the States will not be made available to members of the Federal Parliament for perusal. ...
Article : 78 wordsWhen she fell from a bicycle yesterday, Elsie Christensen, of Goond[?] Bend, suffered a lacerated wound across the left knee and abrasions to ...
Article : 86 wordsThe old Technical College building, Cairns, is to be used as an intermediate school from the beginning of the next school year. The work of conversion ...
Article : 47 wordsOur Brisbane correspondent advised that the following road works have been approved: Construction of the Dry River to Conjuboy section of ...
Article : 53 wordsWhile the pineapple crop is ending, mangoes are now ripening, to take their place in the fair variety of Northern fruit now available, ...
Article : 117 wordsQueenlsand's working population is now practically at a state of full employment. This position has never been achieved in the 14 years for ...
Article : 120 wordsA meeting of the Central Council of the Queensland Country Party will be held next week to consider the possibility of evolving a common policy for ...
Article : 140 wordsThe following State forecast was issued by the Weather Bureau in Brisbane at 5 p.m. yesterday for the ensuring 24 hours: Scattered showers ...
Article : 59 wordsThe absence of rain has delayed the feneral planting of the maize crop on the Atherton Tableland. This planting is usually done about the third week ...
Article : 134 wordsTheodore Alfred Hansen (43) was charged at the Innisfail Police Court yesterday before Mr. C. Burchill, P.M., with having unlawfully assaulted ...
Article : 57 wordsPenetrating the harbour defences at Dakar in September a speed boat from H.M.A.S. Australia exploded depth charges and put the French battleship ...
Article : 134 wordsThe damage to the overseas steamer which was mined in Southern Australian waters on Saturday night was examined by a diver. The diver reported that a ...
Article : 146 wordsA D[?]nei agency message from Tokio states that Major-General Paishiro gumita, leader of the military-mission to Indo-China. is going to Saigon to stiidy ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Carpenters' Union may break away from the A.L.P. By a large majority the Brisbane branch has decided to recommend to the State ...
Article : 106 wordsMr H. H. Collins, M.L.A. for Cook, has passed on to the Yorkey's Knob Progress Association information that he has received from the Minister for ...
Article : 139 wordsReconditioning of the railway workshops at Cairns is now being done, employing four carpenters and two labourers. The work will take until ...
Article : 30 wordsThe shortage of potatoes in the North caused supplies which arrived this week to be cleared immediately from the merchants. The quantity of ...
Article : 130 wordsConsumers in the Edge Hill area are notified that the supply of electricity may be interrupted on Saturday. December 14, 1940, between 5 a.m. and ...
Article : 29 wordsTravellers from Saigon report that serious native uprisings in Indo-China are intensifying the French difficulty in maintaining control in the face of Japanese ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Minister for Commerce (Sir Earle Page) announced to-day that the Federal Government had been advised of the signing of the Anglo-American ...
Article : 79 wordsJoe Chellum (50), an aboriginal, was charged in the Cairns Police Court yesterday that on December 10 at Wright's Creek he stole four bunches ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsSeveral alterations and additions have been made to the usual train and motor services during the Christmas and New Year holidays, and ...
Article : 348 wordsThree Labour members — Messrs. Brennan, Ward and Falstein—cxiticised their leader (Mr. Curtin) in the House of Representatives last night during the ...
Article : 143 wordsThe latest programme of laying coarse gravel ballast on railway lines in the Cairns district concluded on Wednesday. The ballast, which was ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. P. J. Phelan, who was associated with the late Mr. Seymour Howe in evolving the Howe-Phelan scheme for the production of power alcohol from ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Minister for Home Security (Mr. Herbert Morrison) in a speech said that the Nazis' new European order was that of the slave plantation, their peace that ...
Article : 227 wordsSince the Department of Labour was established several months ago it has settled ten strikes out of fifteen, stated the Minister for Labour (Mr. H. E. Holt) ...
Article : 93 wordsMis. Elizabeth Turner, relict of the late Donald Turner, passed away in hospital in Cairns early yesterday morning at the age of 70. Born in ...
Article : 75 wordsA light plane belonging to Airlines of Australia damaged its undercarriage while on the aerodrome at Coen, in the Peninsula, yesterday. Mr. C. W. ...
Article : 96 wordsAn inquest was held in the Cairns Coroner's Court yesterday into the death of Frank Litchfield Lamperd, who died on October 12 in the Cairns ...
Article : 142 wordsWhen a fire broke out in an air liner as it landed at Wagga last night seven passengers were rushed to safety. The fire, which was caused by the engine ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Tableland dairymen are having their seasonal decrease in milk production owing to dry conditions, but the position generally on the ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Fri 13 Dec 1940, Page 4
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