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Family Notices : 270 wordsThe following story by Harold Guard, the United Press correspondent in Australia, is published in American newspapers: "I have ...
Article : 868 wordsAn epidemic of dengue or "breakbone fever" is working from North Queensland, and Army hygiene and State Public Health Department ...
Article : 109 wordsBecause a lower medical standard is accepted, some [?] discharged from the A.I.F. after being invalided back to Australia have been ...
Article : 107 wordsButter and cheese insurance against war damage involving at least £3,500,000 will be undertaken by the industry as a single [?] ...
Article : 260 wordsNew season English potatoes continue to arrive at Roma-street but only in small lots. One consignment, however, was offered for auction to-day, and drew ...
Article : 164 wordsIf the anticipations of the Commissioner of Railways (Mr. T. J. Hartigan) are realised, the State railways will contribute nearly one-half of the total ...
Article : 1,501 wordsTo speed up arrangements for the defence of Australia against a possible Japanese attack, and to prepare the maximum number of pilots to meet such ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Government is likely to grant income tax concessions in relation to expenditure incurred in providing air-raid shelters or protection when the ...
Article : 83 wordsThe newspapers have recently been publishing pictures of our "guerrilla" troops in training. Mostly they are bushmen—a reminder of the famous ...
Article : 997 wordsThe Minister for the Army (Mr. F. M. Forde) said to-day that it was possible that war prisoners whose names had been received from Tokio by the ...
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Advertising : 85 wordsA warning that a grave food shortage would occur in Queensland this year, if labour were not made available, was sounded by the Minister for ...
Article : 213 wordsCompulsory attendance at school for children between six and 14 years is expected to apply again from next Monday. Although, the compulsory ...
Article : 96 wordsThe new basic wage of £4/11/- for males and £2/9/6 for females is expected to be gazetted on Monday.—Our Brisbane correspondent. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Federal Parliament will meet to-day, and it is expected to sit about three weeks. The Uniform Taxation proposal will, of ...
Article : 829 wordsRev. J. A. McChesney Clark (28), son of the late Rev. J. McChesney Clark, for many years secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Mulgrave Central Mill Company Limited advise that a further interim payment on the basis of 2/6 per ton is being made available to-day. ...
Article : 32 wordsT. B. Paterson yesterday received an injury to the left leg, through an oil drum falling on it. The Ambulance rendered first aid, and took the patient ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Goondi, Mourilyan and South Johnstone mills will commence crush ing on June 10, 1942. All men desiring work as cane cutters, who have not ...
Article : 46 wordsThe sittings of the Cairns Criminal Court was held yesterday before His Honor (Mr. Justice Douglas). Mr. J. P. Quinn was Crown Prosecutor. ...
Article : 716 wordsAnother extension of the strike of 200 builders' labourers has occurred at the Homebush abattoirs. The men, stopped over a week ago because they ...
Article : 65 wordsFor the purpose of estimating the labour available for the coming season, men desirous of employment in sugar mills should communicate at once with ...
Article : 55 wordsThe War Production Board has ordered the curtailment of the production of hair pins, especially the "bobbie" type which were ...
Article : 51 wordsAmerican forces have decided to construct their own recreation centres for the entertainment of troops on Sundays and holidays. "The purpose," said ...
Article : 259 wordsCane growers are reminded that the census of earth-moving plant now being taken by the Allied Works Council includes, tractors, crawler or wheel ...
Article : 62 wordsAlthough reports were circulating in Cairns yesterday that the missing Guinea Airways airliner had been located in the Bartle Frere Range, this ...
Article : 111 wordsThe death occurred ia Cairns yesterday of Mrs. Ellen Matilda Peirce, wife of Mr. J. Peirce, of Grimshaw-street. Cairns. Deceased, who was born ...
Article : 97 wordsG. Gagno, a bricklayer, living on the Mourilyan-road, was riding his bicycle when it collapsed and threw him to the road. He received medical attention ...
Article : 128 wordsThe death occurred in the Charters Towers District Hospital on April 19 of Mrs. Elizabeth Ellen Jones, a resident of Bellenden Ker, at the age of 51 ...
Article : 61 wordsThe death on Monday at the age of 91 of Julian Rossi Ashton, teacher and painter, ended a life devoted to art. He continued teaching until shortly before ...
Article : 59 wordsTwo railway employees at work on a line within a mile of the Toowoomba station were run down and killed by a locomotive this morning. They were: ...
Article : 81 wordsTo-days communique, which covers actions ranging from Darwin to the Philippines, reads:— Australia:—At Darwin the enemy ...
Article : 128 wordsAbout 98 per cent of the people forced to register in the national census have returned registration cards. Officials handling the census revealed ...
Article : 134 wordsThe "Nichi Nichi" reports that the Japanese arrested 200 Chinese in Java and charged them with anti-Japanese activities. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Industrial Court to-day found that three carpenters employed by the Brisbane City Council on air-raid snelters had absented themselves from ...
Article : 69 wordsAn Admiralty communique says that the submarine Trident torpedoed and sank a large enemy supply ship off the coast of Norway. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Director General of Man-power (Mr. W. Wurth) is now preparing a plan to ensure that sufficient labour is available for industries relying on ...
Article : 54 wordsThe chairman of the State Liquid Fuel Control Board (Mr. J. C. Lamont) will not disclose the petrol ration classification of A.W.U. organisers. ...
Article : 157 wordsCustomers as well as shopkeepers win be liable to heavy penalties for branches of the National Security Regulations restricting deliveries of ...
Article : 105 wordsMatthew Petar [?] Higgins (47), a soldieer, who had [?] having wilfully murdered Joseph Robert Abbott on December 25 last, at Landsborough, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Commander of the trawler, Stella Capells, sunk on Anzac Day, was a Brisbane, member of the R.A.N., Lieutenant W. L. Sadgrove. His widow ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Wed 29 Apr 1942, Page 4
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