The progress of the Malayan campaign is causing deep anxiety to members of the Federal Government. Although it is known that ...
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Family Notices : 452 wordsThe Japanese thrust against New Guinea is proceeding, rapidly. Large Japanese forces are now dispersed over a very wide area of the Pacific to the east of the mainland of New Guinea. Following the surprise air attack on the Solomon Islands late on Thursday, ...
Article : 252 wordsAt the Chamber of Commerce meeting yesterday afternoon, Mr. W. J. Calder referred to recent increases in land revaluation in ...
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Advertising : 373 words"I want you all to keep in mind that the fate of the Dominions is linked with the nerve centre of the Empire— Great Britain—which is still under the ...
Article : 493 wordsThe Free French leader in Australia (Mr. Andre Brenac) said to-day that had New Caledonia remained under Vichy control it might now have been ...
Article : 119 wordsIn the absence of information the Commonwealth Government is not yet accepting the fact that the town of Rabaul is in Japanese hands, but on the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 wordsFamilies in the Cairns district are requested to arrange for mutual assistance in case of air raid. One family should, if possible, arrange with a friend ...
Article : 270 wordsThe principal of the Cairns State High School (Mr. L. C. Searle) advises that he will be at the school from 10 a.m. on Monday, Tuesday and ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is a fortunate thing that among all the differences of circumstances which divide us from one another, there is ...
Article : 831 wordsYesterday J. Burden (73), residing at Woree, received a lacerated wound near the left eye, and abrasions near both eyes, through being hit by a belt. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Government Fruit Inspector (Mr. B. Funnell) stated that reports from the large packing houses in central New South Wales are that there are ...
Article : 592 wordsunion representatives who complained of obstructive tactics by the employers' representatives following the virtual collapse of the Industrial ...
Article : 481 wordsLate on Thursday night the Fire Brigade was called to the City Cash Butcher's premises, where they found the shop full of smoke, created when ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Cairns Post and Telegraph Office arrangements for Monday, January 26, 1942 (Anniversary Day), provide that the post office will open from 9 ...
Article : 78 wordsA reduction of two pence per lb. in the wholesale and retail price of tea will operate in all States from the opening, of business to-morrow. ...
Article : 218 wordsA first-aid class for auxiliary first-aid officers to be attached to the Cairns Ambulance Brigade will commence on Tuesday night next at 8 o'clock. The ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Minister for Civil Defence (Mr. E. M. Hanlon) stated to-day that a large quantity of A.R.P. equipment had been sent to the north for wardens in areas ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Government decided to-day that the compulsory school attendance law should be suspended in an area within 10 miles of the G.P.O., Brisbane. ...
Article : 201 wordsIn, the industrial Magistrate's court yesterday, before Mr. T. E. Dwyer, S.M. the case was called which had been adjourned from Gordonvale on ...
Article : 233 wordsThe "New York Times," in an editorial, says that the deadly threat to Australia's safety is also a threat to America. "Australians have earned the ...
Article : 56 wordsEmployers' and employees' representatives on the Industrial Relations Council which was established last month to advise the Government on ...
Article : 77 wordsThree hundred and fifty employees of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., New Guinea, have been going to work daily with rifles (slung over their ...
Article : 58 wordsBritain now building up a powerful parachute army, equipped with the most modern weapons in readiness for the day when the British Army will once more face the German Wehrmacht, in what may be the decisive battle. The parachutists sit with legs in a well ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 153 wordsRegulations issued to-night ban Monday as a holiday in essential war industries. The regulations provide that Monday must be regarded as an ...
Article : 87 wordsGiving evidence at the inquest into the deaths of three firemen when R. M. Gow's building was burnt out on January 13, the officer-in-charge of the ...
Article : 260 wordsAn officer and airman were killed when ah R.A.A.F. aircraft from the service flying training school at Uranquinty, New South Wales, crashed on. ...
Article : 99 wordsAn Increase In militia pay, to place them on an equal footing with the A.I.F. men in Australia would cost about £10,000,000 a year according to ...
Article : 93 words"I am certain the enemy will attack the Australian mainland, perhaps not at once but soon," said the Minister for the Army (Mr. ...
Article : 477 wordsit is officially stated that Portuguese troops have sailed from Mozambique for Timor after conversations with Britain "to take charge of the defence ...
Article : 46 wordsBy special arrangements, [?] World Service, in addition to other special sources of information, is used in the compliation of the Overseas ...
Article : 74 wordsA complete black-out in Darwin and in area within a radius of 80 miles has been ordered by the military. Vessels in port are also ordered to ...
Article : 50 wordssergeant F. L. cunningham (N.S.W.) and Leading Aircraftsman L. M. Anderson were killed to-day while attempting a forced landing. The machine burst ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Sat 24 Jan 1942, Page 4
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