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  2. NORTHERN TERRITORY'S DEVELOPMENT OF VITAL IMPORTANCE

    CANBERRA, Apr.2.—The Federal Government will undertake research and experiments which it hopes will reveal additional natural and economic resources in the Northern Territory ...

    Article : 283 words
  3. TO CONSIDER STRIKE ACTION

    BRISBANE, Apr. 2.—A man meeting of 110 Brisbane tramwaymen this morning decided that they would consider strike ...

    Article : 375 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 208 words
  5. The Cairns Post

    The test by which, to gauge the success and soundness of an enterprise is the profit or The test by which to guage the successs and soundness of an enterprise is the profit or loss it makes. Profits have ...

    Article : 582 words
  6. HEAVY CONGESTION AT WHARVES

    BRIS[?]ANE, Apl. 2.—With 18 ships to be worked tomorrow, and another 18 due in port by Friday, the ...

    Article : 387 words
  7. CRICKET

    Brothers survived anxious momen[?]s in winning the "A" grade premiership for the fourth successive season, when on ...

    Article : 394 words
  8. NO NEW LICENCES

    ATHERTON, April 1.—The Premier has asked the Prime Minister that no new licences be issued or increased quantity ...

    Article : 287 words
  9. Family Notices

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  10. PLEA TO POLITICIANS

    TOOWOOMBA, Apr. 1.—All politicians should combine to fight the Communist menace, the Returned Servicemen's League State president ...

    Article : 304 words
  11. FROM THE LOCAL SPHERE

    Mrs. Bridget McCarthy (86). of 49 Gatton-street, Cairns, who left that address on March 29 and was reported to be a missing person, ...

    Article : 42 words
  12. MAN DROWNED

    BRISBANE, Apr. 2.—Doctors battled unsuccessfully yesterday to save the life of a man who had fallen into a turbine water inlet at ...

    Article : 143 words
  13. Sale of Lost Property.

    Four bicycles fetched from 30/to £5/15/- at an autction sale of lost property held at the Cairns police station on Saturday ...

    Article : 58 words
  14. FRACTIOUS "DRUNK" GIVES TROUBLE

    MELBOURNE, Apr. 2.—The spectacle of a constable placing a struggling undersized man in the boot of a police car outside a hotel at ...

    Article : 204 words
  15. NEW AIR COMPANY FOR TOURISTS

    BRISBANE, April 2.—A new airways company, with plans to boost, tourist traffic to Barrier Reef islands, was formed on ...

    Article : 236 words
  16. GRENADE THROWN

    SINGAPORE, Apr. 2 (A.A.P.Reuter's).—Seventeen persons were injured—eight ot them seriously— when terrorists threw a hand ...

    Article : 99 words
  17. WENT TO N.S.W. FOR WEEKEND

    MELBOURNE, Apr. 2.—Several Collingwood (Melbourne) parents were astounded to-night when police told them that their sons ...

    Article : 147 words
  18. False Fire Alarm.

    Responding to a fire alarm call from the corner of Spence and Lake streets at 3.7 p.m. yesterday, the chief officer (Mr. L. Griffiths) ...

    Article : 67 words
  19. SHIPPING MOVEMENTS

    Manunda due to leave Melbourne May 6, Sydney May 9, Brisbane May 12, Townsville May 16, Arrives Cairns May 17, and ...

    Article : 289 words
  20. CAIRNS EISTEDDFOD COMMITTEE

    Record figures, both in entries and receipts, at the 25th annual North Queensland Eisteddfod, held in Cairns last Easter, were revealed ...

    Article : 382 words
  21. USE OF COBALT

    BOSTON, Apr. 2 (A.A.P.).— Cobalt had replaced radium in the treatment of cancer, Dr. Shields Warren said to-day. Dr. Warren, ...

    Article : 66 words
  22. Football Casualties.

    While playing football at parramatta Park yesterday afternoon. N. Cornwall, of Spence-street,received an injury to the right ...

    Article : 57 words
  23. DERAILMENT AT REDBANK.

    BRISBANE, Apr. 2.—Trains on the Ipswich line were held up for eight minutes at Redbank yesterday when a waggon of a coal train ...

    Article : 55 words
  24. Innisfail Rainfall.

    Innisfail failed to secure its orthodox 100 inches of rain in the first quarter, the registrations being 70 inches 55 points. January and ...

    Article : 68 words
  25. C.P. CANDIDATE FOR COOKS

    Addressing a well-attended openair meeting at Mossman on Saturday night, the endorsed Country Party candidate for Cook, Mr. ...

    Article : 242 words
  26. In Canberra Today

    Two sections of the Labour Oppsition are rapidly taking shape. Decision to challenge the new Government in the Senate by trying to ...

    Article : 892 words
  27. CATTLE CREEK MILL

    MACKAY, April 2.—The Cattle Creek Mill Suppliers' Association annual meeting on Saturday, by an overwhelming majority, ...

    Article : 232 words
  28. Cairns Weather.

    The Weather Bureau advised that the temperatures recorded yesterday were 6 a.m.. 75.3 degrees with a relative humidity of 86 per cent.: ...

    Article : 87 words
  29. FLOODING WILL BE RENEWED

    BRISBANE, Apr. 2.—Flooding would be renewed in South-West Queensland if heavy rain continued, a Weather Bureau official said ...

    Article : 135 words
  30. BABY SON DEAD

    SYDNEY, Apr. 1.—William James Blair (19), of George-street, Redfern, was charged to-day with the manslaughter of his ...

    Article : 118 words
  31. Week-end Ambalance Cases

    During the week-end, the ambulance gave first-aid to Mrs. Undy, of Aumuller-street, who spilled some hot fat and received ...

    Article : 67 words
  32. Edmonton Ambulance Cases.

    Two persons were injured in falls yesterday In the Edmonton area. Philip Irvine (7), scholar, of Hambledon, fell from the roof ...

    Article : 93 words
  33. OBITUARY

    Mrs. Adelaide St. Ann Ford, of Bunda-street Cairns, died on Saturday at the age of 65 years. She was bom on St. Ann's station, near ...

    Article : 86 words
  34. LIQUOR LAWS IN CANBERRA

    CANBERRA, Apr. 1.—Moves to alter Canberra drinking conditions radically are being made by public organisations and leading citizens. ...

    Article : 122 words
  35. "ANGEL" IN GAOL

    MELBOURNE, Apr. 1.—A youth, sentenced to a year's gaol yesterday for shooting his father in the chest with a rifle, was "a real ...

    Article : 120 words
  36. MURDER CHARGE

    MELBOURNE, Apr. 1.—Detectives to-day charged percival Grant Shaw (21) with having murdered his father-in-law at their home in ...

    Article : 90 words
  37. BARRON RIVER RISES

    KURANDA, Apr. 2.—Fairly heavy rain, which had fallen during the week-end, has caused a substantial increase in the flow of water ...

    Article : 126 words
  38. Motor Cycle and Car in Collision.

    Just after midday yesterday a motor cycle ridden by John Brett (20), of Edward-Street, Cairns, came into, collision with a car ...

    Article : 101 words
  39. RESTRICTIONS ON ELECTRICITY

    BRISBANE, April 2.—The electricity restrictions in south-east Queensland ended at midnight to-night, following an order made ...

    Article : 169 words
  40. MR. JAMES NORRIS.

    A well-known resident of the Yungaburra and Millaa Millaa districts in earlier days, Mr. James Norris, died in Cairns late last ...

    Article : 178 words
  41. Butter Grading Tests.

    First place, for the second time in succession, has been won by the Millaa Millaa Co-operative Butter Association Ltd., in the ...

    Article : 112 words
  42. EARTH SHOCK IN ITALY

    LONDON, Apr. 2 (A.A.P.).—The Associated Press correspondent in Livorno (Italy) says that at least 30 persons were reported to be ...

    Article : 92 words
  43. Aerial Ambulance Case.

    In response to a telephone call, the Cairns aerial ambulance plane left at 10.35 a.m. on Saturday for Cooktown to pick up ...

    Article : 97 words
  44. INGHAM MAN'S FALL

    TOWNSVILLE, April 2.—John David Koch (51), died in the Townsville Hospital late this afternoon from injuries received ...

    Article : 70 words
  45. U.S. STRIKE LOSS.

    WASHINGTON, Apr. 1 (A.A.P.) —Strikes cost the nation 50,500,000 man-days in 1949—48 per cent. more than in 1948, and the second ...

    Article : 53 words
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