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Family Notices : 332 wordsDecisions to be made by the Federal War Cabinet at its meeting to-morrow an the future Industrial policy in the coal mining ...
Article : 399 wordsKaepa[?] was again visited by R.A.A.F. aircraft on Tuesday, and despite sustained resistance by the japanese defences,bombs were ...
Article : 248 wordsWith equipment coming to hand in greater quantities, refugee centres established, and a compulsory callup soon to supplement the State's ...
Article : 100 wordsSergeant-Pilot Robert Eric Fraser (28), single, and Sergeant-Observer James Alexander Mant (25), single, were killed instantly when an ...
Article : 106 wordsThe following regulations in regard to the employment of man-power came into operation as from April 1, 1942:— ...
Article : 1,174 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 wordsSpeaking at the annual meeting of the Commercial Motor Users' Association, the president (Mr. A. Raymont) said that Australia has reached a stage ...
Article : 149 wordsIt is likely that the Federal Government, will postpone any decision to put the seven-hour day limit on liquor trading until the Premiers' Conference ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Ald. J. W. Chandler) to-day, in a further reply to criticism by the picture industry of his campaign for Sunday shows for soldiers, ...
Article : 215 wordsAfter protracted negotiations between the Primary Producers' Union and, the Director-General of Man-power (Mr Wurth), a schedule of reservations was ...
Article : 361 wordsThe stamp selling machine at the Cairns Post Office, which suffered from a temporary dislocation, is again in working order. ...
Article : 28 wordsSpeaking at Innisfail to-night, Mr. S. Theodore, Member for Herbert, made interesting reference to the sugar Situation. He said that the Government ...
Article : 273 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 77 wordsMr.E.L. Moore, Clerk of Petty Sessions at Cairns, has been appointed acting Stipendiary Magistrate. Mr. F. L. Brady, senior clerk, has been appointed ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Victorian Premier (Mr. A. Dunstan) has asked the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) to postpone the operations of the seven-hour drinking law ...
Article : 60 wordsSeveral residents of the Tableland districts, who have been in the south, have returned by train. So far as can be ascertained, however, there has ...
Article : 41 wordsSurprising, though heartening because of the high state of Russian morale which it disclosed, was the recent prediction of ...
Article : 740 wordsThe Lord Mayor to-day called a conference of stage, screen and radio representatives for Friday to work out a plan for the entertainment of troops on ...
Article : 46 wordsA large number of internees from the Mareeba district arrived in Cairns yesterday afternoon by train, and were taken to the police station in ...
Article : 43 wordsFar-reaching discussions and an agreement which is believed to mark the real beginning of practical operation of the new command in the Anzac ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Combined Unions and A.W.U. today applied to the Court for an increase in the basic wage to £5 a week for males and £3/5/- for females, increases ...
Article : 154 wordsIn the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. E. L. Moore, acting S.M., judgment for plaintiff was given in the following claim: F. R. Ireland ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Government has sent a model order to all State Governments in an effort to secure uniformity in masking motor headlights. The Commonwealth ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Governor (Sir Leslie Wilson) will arrive in Cairns this week and spend some time in the city and district, visiting places of interest and ...
Article : 38 wordsA shed at the sanitary depot caught fire yesterday afternoon when tar boiled, over. Fireman H. Grove with an auxiliary fire service crew were ...
Article : 52 wordsMalta's heaviest raid yet came yesterday, when waves of German planes bombed, and dive-bombed the harbour area and aerodrome.Anti-aircraft ...
Article : 74 wordsIn the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. E. L. Moore, acting S.M., Dorothy Eileen Margaret Tennent (24), on remand, on bail, on a ...
Article : 55 wordsWith a leg in plaster, shrapnel in his shoulder and a blind left eye, Private W. J. Dykstra, of Bondi, still thinks he's the luckiest man in the A.I.F. ...
Article : 352 wordsThe Brisbane and Suburban Storekeepers' Association is objecting to the appointment of Mr. H. A. Bennett, as Tea Controller at a salary of £1500, ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Minister for Commerce (Mr. J. V. Scully) is investigating thar possibilities of the early establishment of mutton dehydrating plants in country ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Minister for Civil Defence (Mr. E. M. Hanlon) stated to-night that the State Government would now proceed with the enforcing of the regulations ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is now known that 52 were killed and 80 injured in the air raid on Alexandria: ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Dawson Gibson (47), a married man, residing in Buchan-street, and employed at the Railway Department as a temporary porter, was working ...
Article : 85 wordsThe new American Ambassador [?] Russia(Admiral William Standley) arrived aboard the first United States army plane to fly across Russian territory. ...
Article : 48 wordsA campaign to expand cotton cultivation to 100,000 acres in Queensland during the coming spring months will be embarked on by the Agriculture ...
Article : 184 wordsFor a training battallon Northern Command requires the following men: Clerks, police, cooks, men for general duties, P.O. orderly, motor transport ...
Article : 71 wordsMathew Peter Norton Higgins (47), pleaded not guilty in the Criminal Court to-day to having murdered Joseph Robert Abbott on December 25 ...
Article : 45 wordsA bomb explosion last night cut off telephonic communication between Pretoria and Johannesburg for several hours. The bomb was placed under a ...
Article : 46 wordsThe cash receipts of the Cairns railways for March totalled £44,723, as compared with £27,563 for the same month of 1941. For the nine months of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 wordsThe Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) announced to-day that the Distinguished Flying Cross had been awarded for exceptional service in ...
Article : 49 wordsIn order to encourage producers to retain as many sheep as possible for wool purposes, the Wool Board has decided to increase wool prices by 10 ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Treasurer (Mr. F., A. Cooper) stated to-day that Queensland members of the defence forces who return from service abroad were exempt from ...
Article : 64 wordsFederal officers to-day pointed out that if the uniform tax method is adopted all direct taxes on income, such as unemployment relief or development ...
Article : 42 wordsSitting in bankruptcy jurisdiction in chambers at Townsville on Tuesday Mr. Justice R. J. Douglas 'made a sequestration order against the estate of ...
Article : 147 wordsAccording to a Bucharest message Vidin was completely, destroyed, and 700 houses collapsed,between Ruse and Giurgiu as a result of flooding from ...
Article : 45 wordsState finances, particularly the attitude to be adopted towards the single tax proposal, will be reviewed at a special meeting of the Parliamentary ...
Article : 83 wordsOne thousand mattress covers to use in hall converted into emergency hostels for people made homeless temporarily by enemy action, have been ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Wallasey by election, consequent to Lieutenant-Colonel Moore Brabazon's elevation to the peerage, will be a three-cornered contest. ...
Article : 43 wordsVice-Admiral Haunch has been appointed by the Netherlands to command all Dutch naval, land and air forces in the East. A board of three ...
Article : 64 wordsThe death is announced of Rear Admiral Pradley Allen Fiske inventor of the torpedo plane. He was 88 years of age. ...
Article : 40 wordsEight persons were killed, and 32 injured in an air raid on Alexandria last night. ...
Article : 25 wordsSir Stafford Cripps' brother, Major L. H. Cripps, who is a Liverpool shipowner, agreed to contest the Wallasey by-election as an independent, promising ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Admiralty announces that H.M.S. Havock (Lieut.-Commander G. R. G. Watkins, D.S.C.) was totally wracked' off the Tunisian coast. One ...
Article : 42 wordsChungking, has officialy announced the exchange of diplomatic representatives by China and the Vatican. ...
Article : 35 wordsNight raiders bombed two East Coast towns, and one village. One is reported to have been brought down. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Admiralty submarine Tempest is overdue, and is considered lost. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Thu 9 Apr 1942, Page 4
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