An R.A.A.F. aircratf which yesterday swept the coastline, islands and reefs from F[?]roy Island to Dunk Island, failed to ...
Article : 183 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 8.—Industries essential to war production will receive priority for expansion under the new capital issues control. The National Security Resources Board agreed in principle on ...
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Family Notices : 543 wordsOne of the two Tiger Moth aircraft which made emergency landings on a beach near Yarrab[?] Mission during a sharp ...
Article : 235 wordsIt is a melancholy reflection that the production of coal in this country of ample resources should be at least ...
Article : 671 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—The Weather Bureau reported this afternoon that the tropical rain front through the north ...
Article : 284 wordsLate yesterday doctors were still fighting to save the life of 21-years-old Gilbert River stock-man, George Hayman, a ...
Article : 216 wordsINNISFAIL, Jan. 8—A launch from the Flying Fish Point pilot station, in the charge of the pilot (Mr. D. Shearsmith) with Constable ...
Article : 47 wordsAn R.A.A.F. Reserve spokesman in Cairns yesterday, described as "generally unsatisfactory," the response to appeals ...
Article : 223 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—Townspeople and local police to-day formed bucket brigades to fight a fire which threatened the main ...
Article : 151 wordsIPSWICH, Jan. 8.—Lack of parental control was the cause of an outbreak of juvenile delinquency in the Bundamba-Riverview area, ...
Article : 306 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Jan. 8.—According to the city health authorities an additional case of poliomyelitis was reported over the week-end. ...
Article : 59 wordsMACKAY, Jan. 8.—After a loss of 16 working days, the Mackay waterside workers will resume work to-morrow on three ships in ...
Article : 305 wordsIPSWICH, Jan. 8.—A poliomyelitis suspect admitted to the Ipswich General Hospital last Friday has been certified as a ...
Article : 103 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 7.—A burly last war. Victoria Cross winner was nursemaid to a French carrier pigeon on the 22,000 ton Otranto's ...
Article : 295 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—Hans Andrew Beiers (73), a retired school teacher, was found dying on his bed with his wife, Frances Kate Beiers ...
Article : 139 wordsMACKAY, Jan. 8.—The start of salvage operations, on the Palana yesterday was made possible by the successful performance of a ...
Article : 192 wordsIPSWICH, Jan. 8.—The materials shortage at the Ipswich railway workshops is likely to be more acute this year than last year, ...
Article : 160 wordsJohn Clubley, fireman on the steamer Toori was given first-aid by the Cairns Ambulance yesterday for a lacerated wound to the right shin. ...
Article : 47 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—Good supplies of produce were available at Roma-street this morning, but the demand was poor. One thousand ...
Article : 148 wordsMACKAY, Jan. 8.—Mrs. Betty Trenfield, wife of the Palana's first officer, waited 11 years to go to sea with her husband. Their ...
Article : 165 wordsJohn Hodges (6), who received a probable fracture of the left knee in a fall at Yarrabah Mission on Saturday, was taken from his ...
Article : 45 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 8.—Taking huge armies out of industry now would halt all defence development plans and prevent the stockpiling of ...
Article : 171 wordsWith only eight days of January gone, rainfall for 1951 already totals 297 points. Nineteen points fell on Wednesday last, 61 on Saturday. ...
Article : 42 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 8.—The Assistant Director of Recruiting (Mr. C. Banfield) said to-day that business houses and industries ...
Article : 112 wordsMACKAY, Jan. 8.—John Edward Read (17), who made a sensational attempt to escape from police escort at the Proserpine railway ...
Article : 159 wordsThe total rainfall in Mareeba for 1950 was 51.89 inches, spread over 112 wet days. This is the highest rainfall recorded in Mareeba since ...
Article : 45 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—Treasury returns for the six months to the end of December show that expenditure exceeded revenue by ...
Article : 105 wordsMACKAY, Jan. 8.—A climax to an apparently endless run of bad luck for the P. and O. freighter, Palana, came to-day when the ...
Article : 93 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8—Vivian Dowling (32), married, a fireman, was seriously injured when a ceiling collapsed under him and ...
Article : 214 wordsManunda leaves Melbourne January 13, Sydney January 16, Brisbane January 19, Townsville January 23, due Cairns January 24 at 7 ...
Article : 167 wordsLawrence Johns (63), miner, of Cooktown, arrived in Cairns by A.N.A. plane yesterday and was taken by ambulance to the Cairns ...
Article : 53 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—The Director of War Service Land Settlement (Mr. Eric Mellor) said to-day that he had received no ...
Article : 177 wordsFollowing Sunday's heavy rain, the Collins Bridge spanning the Barron River at Kuranda, was untrafficable for several hours ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Federal Member for Leichhardt (Mr. T. V. Gilmore) is making a comprehensive tour of his electorate. His itinerary includes ...
Article : 167 wordsMACKAY, Jan. 8.—Widespread rain throughout the Mackay district has again disrupted mill crushing schedules. Cutting in most areas ...
Article : 84 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Jan. 8.—In the Townsville Police Court to-day the police alleged that a man charged with having driven a vehicle under ...
Article : 115 wordsMAREEBA, Jan. 8.—After being a resident to Mareeba for the past 50 years, Mrs. Mary Ferguson passed away at her home in ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Weather Bureau last night telegraphed the following district forecasts: Peninsula and Carpentaria: Variable rain and local ...
Article : 90 wordsGYMPIE, Jan. 8.—A 17-year-old youth who had been injured in a fall from a moving utility truck died in the General Hospital early ...
Article : 123 wordsSINGAPORE, Jan. 8 (A.A.P.).— R.A.F. Lincoln bombers this morning dropped 1000lb. bombs on terrorist hide-outs in the Ampang ...
Article : 104 wordsINNISFAIL, Jan. 8.—Sugar stocks at mills in the Innisfaildistrict at the past week-end were: Mourilyan 8302 tons, Goondi 6442 ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Brisbane Weather Bureau gives the northern rainfalls for the 48 hours ended at 9 a.m. on Monday as: Cape York 26 points, Coen ...
Article : 133 wordsMELBOURNE, an 8.—The Minister for Air (Mr. T. W. White) announced to-night that Pilot Geoffrey Ingram Stephens, ...
Article : 83 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 8.—The closing date for entries for the 1951 dairy farm competition to be conducted by the department has been ...
Article : 98 wordsINNISFAIL, Jan 8.—When Mr. and Mrs. G. Vyner were returning by car yesterday from the nearby coast and while in the vicinity of ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Jan. 7 (A.A.P.).— High Indian official quarters in London said there is no basis for the report published in India that ...
Article : 79 wordsMARYBOROUGH, Jan. 8.—Sidney Kenny, a patient in the Maryborough General Hospital, was reported missing from Ward 3 ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Cairns Weather Office advised that the following temperatures were recorded yesterday: 6 a.m., 76.2 degrees with a humidity ...
Article : 78 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 8.—Owners of private bus services in New South Waler have asked the Government to increase their fares by 1d a ...
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