Mr. C. Barnes, a Melbourne mining engineer, was the first man to patent degaussing equipment to protect ships against magnetic ...
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Article : 235 wordsThe Cairns Harbour Board has decided to purchase equal quantities of cement from each of four tenderers, who all quoted £7/0/3 per ton, ...
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Article : 112 wordsAn extension of the debtors' relief provisions of the National Security Regulations, which, the Economic Cabinet approved yesterday, provides for Individual ...
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Article : 81 wordsCity taxi drivers are not satisfied with the 25 per cent, increase, announced to-day hy the Commissioner of Police (Mr. C. J. Carroll) to operate ...
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Article : 39 words[?] The official results have been received for the recent Ballway Ambulance examination held in Cairns for ...
Article : 220 wordsTaxis and private hire cars will withdraw from city streets for 24 hours from 6 a.m. to-morrow, as a protest against the new petrol restrictions. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Minister for the Army (Mr. P. C. Spender) said to-day that Queensland would provide 107 of the 801 women to be sent overseas for service to the A.U. ...
Article : 137 wordsThe six A.I.F. and three Home Service recruits going to southern camps were farewelled a the Cairns railway station yesterday morning by ...
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Article : 39 wordsThe Cairns Railway Band will participate tn the recruiting rally from the Soldiers' Club to the Memorial in Abbott-street to-night. The members ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Fri 1 Aug 1941, Page 4
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