Every day brings more voluntary evacuees to the Downs area from the north and east, and the local authorities face a serious ...
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Family Notices : 175 wordsOn a recommendation from the Army Department, the War Advisory Council to-day decided that wet canteens provided in A.I.F. camps ...
Article : 96 wordsSimultaneous statements made this morning by the Prime Minister. (Mr. J. Curtin) and President Roosevelt confirm yesterday's ...
Article : 389 wordsAn official comment on the altered method ot allocating petrol ration allowances in the Cairns and surrounding districts, following ...
Article : 725 wordsDescribing the end of the British destroyer Electra in the battle of Java, one of the survivors who has reached Austraila said that the ...
Article : 408 wordsSweet potatoes were in heavier supply at Roma-street to-day. but only two sales were made, the balance being held for better prices. A line of reds sold at ...
Article : 117 wordsAllied aircraft raided Koepang, in Timor, yesterday. Air-raid alarms were sounded at both Darwin and Port Moresby, but no attacks developed. ...
Article : 191 wordsHow 230 men spent 20 hours in the water, saw flying boats and ships pass by, signalled frantically but still remained unnoticed until they had all but ...
Article : 559 wordsThe Allied air forces were closely watching the bases established by the Japanese near Australia, which might be used for a "jumping off'' place ...
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Advertising : 89 wordsAt the Cairns Labour Office yesterday afternoon a plate layer and fettler were engaged for the Railway Department. ...
Article : 27 wordsIf there is one thing more than another that stands out clearly in war ramifications to-day, it is the Allies'need for more tonnage. ...
Article : 816 wordsA wide range of hand tools normally used domestically, which were frozen early in the year, have been released, states a Canberra message. ...
Article : 26 wordsA large number of men of mixed nationalities who have registered for service in labour battalions left Cairns yesterday morning by special train. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Area Officer advised yesterday that military forms are on hand.and that a further supply is being sent for for country areas. The Post Office ...
Article : 40 wordsMajor-General J.D. Richardson commander of the V.D.C. In New South Wales, announced to-night that permission would be given to raise a large ...
Article : 219 wordsEdward Owens, of the Johnstone Shire Council's Health Department, was handling phosphorus yesterday when he sustained burns to both ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. D. R. Grenfell in the House of Commons announced that the Government was planning to build up before the next winter 20,000,000 tons of ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin) said to-day that it was gratifying to be able to announce the presence in Australia of very substantial American ...
Article : 244 wordsDorothy Eileen Margaret Tennent, on remand, on bail, on a charge of bigamy, was further remanded yesterday in the Court of Petty Sessions ...
Article : 54 wordsThe amount of waste paper and cardboard collected by the City Council for February was 4 tons 9 cwt. 14 lbs. Collections have fallen off ...
Article : 61 wordsIn reference to tne calling up of binoculars by the Commonwealth for army and A.R.P. purposes by the end of this month, persons submitting ...
Article : 73 wordsThe R.A.A.F. had neither the wish nor the intention to deprive our American Allies of full credit for the part they were playing in holding and harassing ...
Article : 125 wordsThe enlistment of Rev. Stuart Dodds. Minister at Innisfail. and the difficulty in securing men to take charge of congregations, has resulted ...
Article : 76 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (Dr. Hugh Dalton), replying to the coal debate, said: "A very serious situation confronts us. The production ...
Article : 180 wordsTo establish uniform-conditions of observance throughout, the Federal Government has decided to introduce regulations to compel hotels ...
Article : 193 wordsThe story of the rescue by an American submarine of 54 men from the British destroyer Electra not only indicates the spirit of the British sailors, ...
Article : 260 wordsDevotion to duty Under hazardous conditions and resource in the evacuation of wounded have resulted in the United States Navy Cross being ...
Article : 263 wordsThere is a very important job that women of Cairns can volunteer to do to-day. The Comforts Committee of the Cairns Patriotic Fund has a supply of ...
Article : 122 words"I have not lost faith in Australians; they are not going to lose this country. No, sir; not in the least. You may have to take a little drubbing ...
Article : 108 wordsThe maritime commission disclosed that a new super dimensional shipyard has been completed for the production of 200 "liberty" merchantmen. It adds ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Country Women's Association, southern division, at its annual meeting to-day, passed a resolution protesting against the short sentences imposed on ...
Article : 122 wordsIn some callings the horse has carried on against power fuel in the machine age, and supporters of horse power still have the urge to continue ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtari) announced to-night that three raids were made by the Japanese on Solomon Islands to-day, two at Tulagai ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Amercian Associated Press correspondent at Istanbul says that Germans are worried by the report that Britain has developed a new petrol ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Commonwealth Stock Dispersal Committee is anxious that full production should continue throughout the coastal industries and it has no ...
Article : 147 wordsIn the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. T. E. Owyer, S.M, judgments for plaintiffs were given in the following claims: H. M. Svendsen Pty. ...
Article : 125 wordsAn additional 50 police are tb be appointed immediately, stated the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. E. M. HanIon) to-day. Twenty extra men were ...
Article : 72 wordsAn R.A.A.F. casualty list issued last night contained 84 names. Queenslanders in the list are: Overseas, killed in air operations. Sergeant R. M. H. ...
Article : 152 wordsDeclaring that the Government had) unmistakably expressed its desire that step; should be taken to cope with excessive drinking, the Prime Minister ...
Article : 161 wordsHeturs from the various districts in the ballot for the presidency of the Returned Soldiers'. League indicate, that Mr. R. D. Huish will be elected for the ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Cairns City Council on Tuesday night, the Mayor (Aid. W. A. Collins) moved a resolution of which he had previously ...
Article : 160 wordsThe news that Goondi mill will crush the coming season's crop if at all possible and that suppliers were meeting next Saturday to discuss ways ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Moscow radio says that the first shipment of clothes, food, and medical supplies from the Australian Red Cross has arrived in Moscow. ...
Article : 41 wordsSenator H. S. Foll has joined the V.D.C. on full-time duty, with the rank of captain.He will be attached to the staff of the New South Wales State ...
Article : 59 wordsYesterday's Cairo communique said that there was increased enemy movement in the forward area of Libya throughout Monday. A strong enemy ...
Article : 84 wordsLaglalanan has been Introduced in Congress to suspend for the duration of the war all laws and contracts calling for a 40-hour work weak. It would also ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Government's measures to control liquor sales will be submitted to the Executive Council to-morrow. Regulations have been prepared for ...
Article : 78 wordsWith the object of saving 132,000,000 square inches of paper yearly and man-power, Britain is to have its 22,000,000 national health insurance and ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Ankara (Turkey) radio quotes a message from Tokio declaring that the Japanese are employing two divisions in their attack against Port ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Admiralty announces that H.M. trawler Rosemond is overdue and considered lost. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Thu 19 Mar 1942, Page 4
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