The easy conquest of Malaya and Singapore by the Japanese shocked the whole Empire. In my opinion it was due to several causes, all ...
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Article : 69 wordsThe open-cut system of mining for coal would be pursued to the absolute limit in Australia, even if it meant depriving the Allied Works Council of ...
Article : 232 wordsThe unlawful use of a bicycle proved expensive to Harold Stuart Lynch (24), Australian sailor, who, when he pleaded guilty before Mr. L. H. ...
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Article : 119 wordsThe District Prices Officer (Mr. J. C. Kenny) advises that a Prices Regulation Order has been received setting out the maximum retail prices ...
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Article : 79 wordsMost of the servicemen to be released in the next 10 months under the Government's decision to concentrate men in industry will be drawn ...
Article : 78 wordsAdvices from the Innisfail district sugar areas on Wednesday stated that the fine cool weather in evidence is tending to an increase in the cane ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Metal Trades Federation, representing 250,000 unionists, to-day appealed to the minera to end unauthorised strikes. In its appeal the ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Director-General of Man-power (Mr. W. C. Wurth) said to-day that everything was ready for the absorption of the men to be released from ...
Article : 72 wordsThe great scope of the library at the Cairns School of Arts is exemplified in this month's selected new books, which include: "The Rise and Fall of ...
Article : 136 wordsGolden Casket No. 876 resulted: First prize of £6000, ticket No. 28,518, J. Bourke, M. Deadman, W. Ratcliffe, M. Booth, care Preddey's Ltd., Briibane-street, Inswich; ...
Article : 92 wordsRoy Kable (32), hawker, was sentenced to death by Judge Herron to-day. He had been convicted of murdering his wife by blows on the head with an axe in the ...
Article : 49 wordsSome telephones might be withdrawn from subscribers whose activities were not essential to the war effort because the difficulty in providing a new telephone ...
Article : 113 wordsNon-Labour political parties in Queensland are divided on Mr. Menzies' proposal to form a new Australia-wide political movement with a liberal policy. The ...
Article : 167 wordsThe demand by the central and district executives of the Miners' Federation for Government control of the mines was endorsed by a conference ...
Article : 190 wordsA Chungking message says that the Japanese authorities in Shanghai have advised civilians to evacuate the city because of the danger of Allied bombing. ...
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Article : 236 wordsThe Treasurer (Mr. E. M. Hanlon) told Parliament to-day that two leprosy patients at Peel Island have been treated with penicillin and the results ...
Article : 120 wordsWhen after sitting for less than two hours the Senate adjourned this afternoon until September 13, Senator Leckie (U.A.P., Victoria) strongly ...
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Article : 137 wordsSome changes in clothing restrictions might be possible following investigations by a special committee of experts, the Minister for War ...
Article : 117 wordsThe complete abolition of the existing powers of the Federal Peace Officers to enter, search and detain is un[?]rstood to be recommended by the ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. Curtin announced to-night that the Prices Commissioner (Prof. D. B. Copland) in the near future would visit the United States, Canada and Britain to ...
Article : 90 wordsMiss Thelma Hunter, of Nambour, who has been in the Women's Army about 15 months earned £4/5/6 in six hours at Home Hill this week ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Office of War Information says that it is learned from France that Grace Moore's villa, Cass Lauretta, near Cannes has been used for four years as a relay ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Minister for Aircraft Production (Senator Cameron) said to-day that the war has proved that a greater measure of Commonwealth control ...
Article : 78 wordsA milk production target of 1,210,000 gallons has been approved by the production executive, stated the Minister, for War Organisation and Industry (Mr. J. J. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe effort of Mr. A. W. Fadden during the Referendum campaign was warmly praised by members of his party to-day at a meeting. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Fri 1 Sep 1944, Page 4
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