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Family Notices : 103 wordsThe Federal Government is awaiting comment from the State Premiers before making a final decision about details of the observance of ...
Article : 132 wordsIn the comparatively short peried preceding Ute Japanese landings at Salamans. and Lae, more than 25 tens of bembs were dropped on ...
Article : 210 wordsThe War Cabinet has abandoned its earlier proposal that persons compulsorily enlisted in the labour corps should be paid army rates ...
Article : 165 wordsFollowing a heated debate at the monthly meeting of the Calrns Harbour Board yesterday afternoon concerning the defence of ...
Article : 591 wordsThe 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 wordsWith 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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Advertising : 162 wordsSir,—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 wordsIn 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 wordsThe chairman of the Central Reference Board (Judge Drake Brockman) said to-day that the Miners' Federation was adopting an extraordinary attitude ...
Article : 208 wordsMr. Drakeford said there was another reconnaissance by Australian aircraft over New Britain on Monday. One of these machines was attacked at three ...
Article : 135 wordsSir 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 wordsThere 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe Japanese carried out the sixth daylight raid on Port Moresby this afternoon. dropoing bombs and causing the slightest damage. ...
Article : 32 wordsGeorge 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 wordsDisputes 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 wordswhen 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 wordsAt the Cairns Labour Office on Monday afternoon six machine men were engaged for the Main Roads Commission. Yesterday afternoon one labourer ...
Article : 117 wordsTwenty 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsFederal 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 wordsThe requisitioning or compulsory acquisition of any property other than land is included in the wide powers which have been given to the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe 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 wordsAt 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 wordsA 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 wordsAbout 110 Europeans and,400 Chinese evacuated from Ocean and Nauru islands have arrived in Australia. Nearly all the whites are ...
Article : 78 wordsFrom 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 wordsTne 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 wordsA joint communique announced the creation of a British-American Caribbean Commission to encourage and strengthen social and economic ...
Article : 93 wordsThe 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 wordsJose Capablanca, former world's chess champion, died at 53 from an apoplectic fit, at the Manhattan Chess Club. ...
Article : 31 wordsDairy 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 wordsA 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 wordsIt 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 wordsThe Navy Command has announced that United states submarines in the Western Pacific sunk a Japanese destroyer leader and a naval tanker. They ...
Article : 70 wordsTightening their feedbold on the North coast of New [?], Japanese forces made a landing this afternoon at [?], [?] miles ...
Article : 62 wordsstricter supervision of radio programmes is recommended by the Parliamentary Committee on Broadcasting. The recommendations include: Volume ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Wed 11 Mar 1942, Page 4
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