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  2. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 103 words
  3. ANZAC DAY.

    The Federal Government is awaiting comment from the State Premiers before making a final decision about details of the observance of ...

    Article : 132 words
  4. R.A.A.F. OPERATIONS. AGAINST JAPANESE.

    In the comparatively short peried preceding Ute Japanese landings at Salamans. and Lae, more than 25 tens of bembs were dropped on ...

    Article : 210 words
  5. LABOUR CORPS.

    The War Cabinet has abandoned its earlier proposal that persons compulsorily enlisted in the labour corps should be paid army rates ...

    Article : 165 words
  6. NORTHERN DEFENCE.

    Following a heated debate at the monthly meeting of the Calrns Harbour Board yesterday afternoon concerning the defence of ...

    Article : 591 words
  7. COMMERCIAL.

    The record price of 25/ a cwt. was paid at Roma-street to-day for 20 bags of sweet potatoes. This was nearly four times the normal price and it emphasised ...

    Article : 121 words
  8. SYDNEY LETTER.

    With Australia already under fire from enemy planes one would be justified in thinking that all Australians were anxious to take effective measures ...

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  9. Advertising

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    Advertising : 162 words
  10. CORRESPONDENCE.

    Sir,—If the Johnstone Shire Council, due to important reasons, sees fit to keep the street lights extinguished at night, surely some co-operation might ...

    Article : 145 words
  11. DUTCH OFFICERS.

    In what they believe was the last intact Dutch bomber in Java, two Dutch army officers in key positions have arrived in Australia after having ...

    Article : 805 words
  12. AWARD DISOBEYED. BY MINERS' FEDERATION.

    The chairman of the Central Reference Board (Judge Drake Brockman) said to-day that the Miners' Federation was adopting an extraordinary attitude ...

    Article : 208 words
  13. R.A.A.F. RECONNAISSANCE.

    Mr. Drakeford said there was another reconnaissance by Australian aircraft over New Britain on Monday. One of these machines was attacked at three ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. INQUIRY ON MALAYA.

    Sir Henry Morris-Jones (Lib.-Nat.) will ask Mr. Churchill at the next sitting of Parliament whether the Government will institute a commission of ...

    Article : 199 words
  15. The Cairns Pos

    There is no doubt that the spread of the war to America stresses the fact—which has never been lost sight of by Hitler since ...

    Article : 819 words
  16. Escaped From Papua.

    A small vessel has arrived at an Australian port with seven white men and six natives on board from Papua. The trip occupied three weeks, but ...

    Article : 32 words
  17. Interest Free Loans.

    The following interest free loans have been made to the Commonwealth for the duration of the war: A. C., C. I. and R. A. Jephcott, Mulgrave-road. ...

    Article : 44 words
  18. SIXTH DAYLIGHT RAID.

    The Japanese carried out the sixth daylight raid on Port Moresby this afternoon. dropoing bombs and causing the slightest damage. ...

    Article : 32 words
  19. Fell on Buffer.

    George Crane, electrician's assistant, who resides at Cairns but who is employed at Innisfail, was leaving the railway station when he tripped and ...

    Article : 50 words
  20. WAR CABINET TO DISCUSS.

    Disputes in the New South Wales section of the coal mining industry will again be the subject of review by the War Cabinet on Thursday. The Prime ...

    Article : 128 words
  21. GALLERY APPLAUDS.

    when the jury found Thomas McCaskell (30), labourer, not guilty in the Criminal Court to-day on a charge of having wilfuliy murdered Frank ...

    Article : 173 words
  22. Cairns Labour Office.

    At the Cairns Labour Office on Monday afternoon six machine men were engaged for the Main Roads Commission. Yesterday afternoon one labourer ...

    Article : 117 words
  23. GERMAN REPRISALS.

    Twenty persons were executed in Paris as a reprisal for the shooting of a German sentry on March 1. The Germans, in making this announcement ...

    Article : 70 words
  24. DAY OF PRAYER.

    A suggestion: that Sunday next. March 15, be set aside as a day of national prayer for guidance and intercession was made to-day by the ...

    Article : 143 words
  25. CROWDS IN CITIES.

    The Minister for Home Security (Mr. H. P. Lazzarini) said to-day that two out of every three people who walked Sydney's streets every day should be ...

    Article : 161 words
  26. Harbour Board Finance.

    The secretary of the Cairns Harbour Board (Mr. J. Wyer) reported at the monthly meeting of the board yesterday afternoon that the cash receipts for ...

    Article : 100 words
  27. FIXING OF RENTS.

    Federal regulations relating to the fixing of rents are likely to be made applicable to Victoria and Queensland shortly. At present they only apply ...

    Article : 44 words
  28. WIDE POWERS.

    The requisitioning or compulsory acquisition of any property other than land is included in the wide powers which have been given to the ...

    Article : 98 words
  29. INNISFAIL R.A.C.Q.

    The fusion scheme, which caused much discussion at the R.A.C.Q..Innisfall branch some time ago, again came under discussion last night when the adjourned ...

    Article : 263 words
  30. Board Member Welcomed.

    At the monthly meeting of the Cairns Harbour Board yesterday afternoon the charman (Mr. R. T. McManus) extended a welcome to Mr. G. Pearson, ...

    Article : 109 words
  31. JAPANESE ATTACK.

    A Foreign Office spokesman, broad casting to the nation, said that all indications point to a Japanese-Russian clash in the coming spring. He ...

    Article : 114 words
  32. ISLANDS EVACUATED

    About 110 Europeans and,400 Chinese evacuated from Ocean and Nauru islands have arrived in Australia. Nearly all the whites are ...

    Article : 78 words
  33. NOW A CRIME.

    From to-day it will be a crime in Britain to waste paper. Every citizen who throw away a tram or bus ticket, or cigarette packet, or leaves a ...

    Article : 69 words
  34. Probable Employment.

    Tne Director of Labour has advised that a number of truck owner-drivers will probably be required for work in various parts of the State. These may ...

    Article : 210 words
  35. CARIBBEAN OUTPOSTS.

    A joint communique announced the creation of a British-American Caribbean Commission to encourage and strengthen social and economic ...

    Article : 93 words
  36. BRITISH WAR DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES

    The War Department of Britain now runs its own fleet of war craft, which carry stores, ammunition, etc., to sea forts and coastal gun sites, and also tow targets for coastal gun practice. The latest of the small ships are coming off the stock almost as fast as thay ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 105 words
  37. OBITUARY.

    Jose Capablanca, former world's chess champion, died at 53 from an apoplectic fit, at the Manhattan Chess Club. ...

    Article : 31 words
  38. FARMERS WARNED.

    Dairy farmers' resistance to the tick eradication campaign took a further turn to-day, when, at two properties, 75 per cent of the farmers in the ...

    Article : 72 words
  39. AIR TRAINING.

    A plan to extend the air training corps to public and State secondary schools in Australia will shortly come into operation. stated the Air Minister ...

    Article : 98 words
  40. AFTER VISITING U.S.

    It is learned that the Minister for External Affairs (Dr. H. V. Evatt), who is being sent on a mission to Washington, probably will continue on to ...

    Article : 53 words
  41. U.S. SUBMARINES.

    The Navy Command has announced that United states submarines in the Western Pacific sunk a Japanese destroyer leader and a naval tanker. They ...

    Article : 70 words
  42. STOP PRESS!

    Tightening their feedbold on the North coast of New [?], Japanese forces made a landing this afternoon at [?], [?] miles ...

    Article : 62 words
  43. RADIO PROGRAMMES.

    stricter supervision of radio programmes is recommended by the Parliamentary Committee on Broadcasting. The recommendations include: Volume ...

    Article : 64 words
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