The Cairns-Mulgrave Water Supply Board hopes its pipeline from Behana Creek will reach Gordonvale before its funds run out. Attempts to raise a £40,000 loan for the scheme have been ...
Article : 562 wordsSYDNEZ, Dec. 28.—I wrenee Short moved to-day to take control of the Federated Ironworkers' Association funds out ...
Article : 334 wordsAccording to Cairns Harbour Board tables, low tide at 3.4 o'clock this morning was a feet. This does not mean it ...
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Family Notices : 334 wordsMore than half the world [?] hoping that Christmas [?] would see the eud of Hostilities in Korea. The ...
Article : 665 wordsLONGREACH, Dec. [?].— Warning of more severe penalties on illegal S.P. operators in future was given by Mr. P. ...
Article : 304 wordsDesmond Byrnes (13), of Ford-street, Atherton, who was shot on Thursday in the river bed near Collins Bridge, ...
Article : 189 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 28.—A group of four farmers intend to sow 800 acres with cotton next year in the Capella ...
Article : 171 wordsMACKAY, Dec. 28.—Over the past nine weeks 8308 tons of coarse salt had been garnered at the Bowen salt works, the manager ...
Article : 121 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 26.—Though the full text of the sugar agreement completed with Britain last week has not yet been announced, it is ...
Article : 89 wordsTOWNSVILLE. Dec. 28.—As a result of the deteriorating meat position several local butchers have discussed the matter with ...
Article : 252 wordsAnton Orevis[?], labourer, of Spence-street, Bungalow, received a punctured wound between the great and second toes of his left ...
Article : 56 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 28.—A threatened wine shortage in Queensland will be averted by the arrival to-morrow of 50,000 gallons of South ...
Article : 57 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 28.—Peter Bladen, of Crawley, Western Australia, won the first prize of £350 in the long poem section of the ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Weather Office yesterday recorded a maximum temperature of 90.7 degrees and a minimum temperature of 74.3 degrees. ...
Article : 58 words"My land adjoins Colwill's for about a mile and a half," Loftus told me this morning. "It is about a mile and a half too long. ...
Article : 583 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 28. — Scattered rains occurred during the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. to-day, mainly in the Central Lowlands and Upper ...
Article : 205 wordsBRISBANK, Dec. 28. — The establishment of junior farmers' clubs in Queensland towns and cities is seen by the Director of ...
Article : 233 wordsNo shortage of draught beer was seen in Cairns or Innisfail during Christmas week. In addition to this, slightly in excess ...
Article : 134 wordsRainfall for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. Friday was: Lower Carpentaria: Croydon 215, Julia Creek 28, Millungera 41. Upper ...
Article : 55 wordsGeorge Whittaker, milk vendor, of Freshwater, was fined £5 with £1/1/- analyst's fees and 6/- costs of court in the Court of Petty ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the usual monthly appropriation meeting of the Cairns Starr Bowkett Building and Investment Society last night, £8600 was ...
Article : 326 wordsTwo pounds in cash and about one dozen packets of cigarettes were stolen in a "smash and grab" raid on the kiosk in Anzac Park ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27 (A.A.P.).— Lieutenant Colonel Austin Bates, chairman of the Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association to-day ...
Article : 307 wordsBRISBANE. Dec. 28.—Meat trade authorities warned to-night Brisbane will face its most serious meat shortage for many years in ...
Article : 80 wordsWhen he pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen a steel rope valued at £3, the property of James Rankine, of Mossman, ...
Article : 63 wordsAndrew John Fisher, a member of the Air Force, who was reported missing from his home in the Palmerston area, lying between ...
Article : 88 wordsWith the amounts handed in in the past week, the appeal for funds to provide modern equipment for their new aircraft by the Cairns ...
Article : 93 wordsInnisfail received its first substantial fall of rain for many weeks yesterday, when rain set ininthe morning and over 85 points ...
Article : 57 words"Dibbins has not kept his agreement to pay the balance of the purchase money on my house." Parkvn said this morning "I had ...
Article : 355 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 27 (A.A.P.) —The New York film critics to-day chose "A Street Car Named Desire" as the best motion ...
Article : 125 words"Hucklesby has agreed to give me a lease of his property at Glengall," Bleakley told me this morning. "He has not given me ...
Article : 262 wordsLast Sunday's milkless day will be repeated to-morrow, the manager of the Polar Star Co. (Mr. D. Bennett) said yesterday. There ...
Article : 136 wordsWhen the Manunda sailed last night, she was carrying 1200 cases of the locally processed "Amber Glow" orange juice. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 wordsManunda left last night for Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Leaves Melbourne on January 12 on the return trip. ...
Article : 175 wordsThe acting Treasurer (Mr. E. J. Walsh) has advised the Member for Mulgrave (Mr. R. H. Watson) that the Co-ordinator of ...
Article : 86 wordsINNISFAIL, Dec. 28. — The funeral of the late Ralph Reid (61), whose death followed injuries received from a fall at ...
Article : 117 wordsFred Campbell, stockman, of Abingdon Downs, was flown rom Georgetown yesterday, when tne Bush Pilots' Dragonfly aircraft ...
Article : 146 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 28.—Very Rev. W. E. C. Barrett, Dean of St. John's Cathedral for nearly 20 years, will retire next year. He will ...
Article : 115 wordsINGHAM, Dec. 28.—A very sick man, James Jackson (58), who left hospital about 3 o'clock on Monday morning last, clad only ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Innisfail Fire Brigade received a call yesterday to Shaw's corner where a shed at Park's farm had caught fire. The ...
Article : 89 words'"When I went off to England six months ago for a trip," Dansey said to-day, "I lent my car to Lubbock. It was a stupid thing ...
Article : 70 wordsBRISBANE. Dec. 28.—Seven more cases of poliomyelitis in the metropolitan area have been notifled to the Brisbane City Council ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Sat 29 Dec 1951, Page 5
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