With only eight to ten weeks stocks of tea in Australia, the, Federal Government requisition a all supplies yesterday, and sales to ...
Article : 439 wordsAddressing the Wide Bay branch of the Returned Soldiers' League at the annual conference, the State President (Mr. R. D. Huish) made ...
Article : 154 wordsAn invasion booklet, containing notes for the guidance of air-wardens and the police, and instructions which the public must follow in case of ...
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Family Notices : 127 wordsJapanese bombers made a heavy air raid on Port Moresby between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday. At least 11 bombers and five fighters ...
Article : 367 wordsNo lines of prime chaff were offere, at the Roma-street markets yesterday, and values for, all varieties were weak. Lucerne sold between £9/8/4 and £6 a ...
Article : 76 wordsWhile the momentous events of the Japanese Pacific onslaught naturally pre-occupy Australian thought, the key to the world ...
Article : 764 words"The only protected industry so far declared is the munitions industry. For any particular firm to be a declared protected firm, it will have to be ...
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Advertising : 163 wordsA warning to newsnaper proprietors to reduce the size of their papers to an "irreducible minimum" or their newsprint stocks would be taken from ...
Article : 429 words"Instead of talking evacuation, the talk should be of sending troops to the North to defend this country and keep any attacker out of it," the Civil ...
Article : 445 wordsThe rainfall for February was 11.37 inches, which fell on 19 days. The amount for January was 5.10 inches, or a total for the first two months of ...
Article : 34 wordsIn the Mareeba district there is the largest plague of caterpillars ever known. For miles they are mowing down the grass, but so far have not ...
Article : 35 wordsEllen Bird (7), of Petford, entered, the Mareeba District Hospital on Thursday suffering from a fractured left forearm as the result of a fall ...
Article : 37 wordsThe war news is puzzling. There is nothing on which to rest assurance, yet, of the world struggle coming td an end ...
Article : 775 wordsNicholas Valinotti (6), scholar, residing at Edmonton, received a lacerated wound to the third toe of the left foot as the result of a cut on a sharp ...
Article : 44 wordsA communique issued by the Minister for Air (Mr. A. S. Drakeford) today states that 16 Japanese bombers, and fighters attacked Port Moresby on ...
Article : 93 wordsW. R. Carpenter's Lockheed plane, Carmania 11, which crashed near the Cairns aerodrome on February 14, was recovered from its location, placed on ...
Article : 41 wordsTransport workers in certain categories in New South Wales will be placed on the reserved occupation list, the Labour Minister (Mr.-1 Ward) ...
Article : 120 wordsAccompanied by a former Royal Flying Corps veteran, Eric Stephens, a New Guinea flying hero, Norman Wilde reached Brisbane by train from ...
Article : 518 wordsA young woman was taken to the Cairns District Hospital last night by the Ambulance suffering from the effects of poison she allegedly drank. ...
Article : 54 wordsA successful bombing attack by Royal Australian Air Force planes on enemy positions in New Britain was reported in a communique issued to-night by ...
Article : 76 wordsJack Bolton, employed by T. B. O'Meara and Sons, received a punctured wound to the left heel yesterday through having been bitten, by a black ...
Article : 74 wordsBecause some North Queensland fire brigade boards have not provided adequate fire-fighting equipment the State Government has tightened its ...
Article : 323 wordsIn accordance with the instructions issued by the Director-General of Education, State and denominational schools in Cairns will re-open this ...
Article : 261 wordsTwo Queensland casualty lists were issued to-day. The first list was: Died of wounds: Privates N. Eriksen, Tumoulin; P. J. McDonagh, Mt. ...
Article : 190 wordsThought to haye swallowed some nerve tablets which were missing from a bottle, Donald Hillhouse (aged l8 months) who became ill, was taken ...
Article : 71 wordsBetween 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. on Saturday an unoccupied house on the Cairns road, about a mile from Babinda, was totally destroyed by fire. The property ...
Article : 103 wordsAlthough it is expected to accept the Opposition's compromise that shares may be sold On the market after having been held six months, the Federal ...
Article : 366 wordsIncluded in the latest list of police promotions and transfers are the following: Promoted to the rank of Detective sergeant, first-class, ...
Article : 117 wordsFashion will be put on a war footing by committees appointed in various industries last week to standardise wearing apparel. The object is to save ...
Article : 229 wordsThe whole of the Northern Territory came under military control when a further National Security regulation was issued last night by the Army ...
Article : 198 wordsIf the move for voluntary control of liquor trading fails the Federal Government will be asked to consider the imposition of arbitrary control, which ...
Article : 131 wordsMajor General Bennett arrived 13 days after his dramatic escape from Singapore. He will see the Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin) and the ...
Article : 304 wordsMr. H. A. Rorke, Chief Publicity Censor, N.S.W., has sent his resiliation to the Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin). He was for five years censor in the ...
Article : 108 wordsAnti-aircraft guns went into action in a defence area at Melbourne at 2.45 a.m. to-day. Several shells were fired at an R.A.A.F. plane which flew off its ...
Article : 155 wordsThe 15-ton cargo vessel Regina, owned by Messrs. Kleinschmidt Bros., which traded between Brisbane and Southport, sank in the Broadwater a few minutes ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsMr. John Morris (73), principal of the Teachers Training College from 1920 to 1935, died to-day. He was an uncle of Mr. L. D. Edwards, Director ...
Article : 66 wordsA savage fight between two sharks was watched by hundreds of people at Sandgate to-day. A monster grey nurse, estimated at 13 feet, attacked a ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. F. W. Bulcock) announced to-night that Professor H. Seddon, Director of Veterinary Services, had been appointed Queensland ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Mon 2 Mar 1942, Page 4
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