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  2. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 270 words
  3. RAID ON RABAUL.

    The following story by Harold Guard, the United Press correspondent in Australia, is published in American newspapers: "I have ...

    Article : 868 words
  4. DENGUE EPIDEMIC.

    An epidemic of dengue or "breakbone fever" is working from North Queensland, and Army hygiene and State Public Health Department ...

    Article : 109 words
  5. INTO MILITIA.

    Because a lower medical standard is accepted, some [?] discharged from the A.I.F. after being invalided back to Australia have been ...

    Article : 107 words
  6. WAR INSURANCE.

    Butter and cheese insurance against war damage involving at least £3,500,000 will be undertaken by the industry as a single [?] ...

    Article : 260 words
  7. COMMERCIAL

    New 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 words
  8. OUR SYDNEY LETTER.

    If 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 words
  9. R.A.A.F. TRAINING.

    To 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 words
  10. TAX CONCESSION.

    The Government is likely to grant income tax concessions in relation to expenditure incurred in providing air-raid shelters or protection when the ...

    Article : 83 words
  11. GUERRILLA WAR.

    The newspapers have recently been publishing pictures of our "guerrilla" troops in training. Mostly they are bushmen—a reminder of the famous ...

    Article : 997 words
  12. WAR PRISONERS. JAPANESE INFORMATION.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 75 words
  13. Advertising

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    Advertising : 85 words
  14. PRODUCTION PROBLEMS.

    A 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 words
  15. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.

    Compulsory attendance at school for children between six and 14 years is expected to apply again from next Monday. Although, the compulsory ...

    Article : 96 words
  16. New Basic Wage.

    The 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 words
  17. The Cairns Post

    The Federal Parliament will meet to-day, and it is expected to sit about three weeks. The Uniform Taxation proposal will, of ...

    Article : 829 words
  18. BRISBANE MAN INCLUDED.

    Rev. 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 words
  19. Mulgrave Mill Cane Payment.

    The 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 words
  20. Injury by Oil Drum.

    T. 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 words
  21. Innisfail Mills.

    The 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 words
  22. CIRCUIT COURT.

    The sittings of the Cairns Criminal Court was held yesterday before His Honor (Mr. Justice Douglas). Mr. J. P. Quinn was Crown Prosecutor. ...

    Article : 716 words
  23. BUILDERS' STRIKE.

    Another 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 words
  24. Labour for Sugar Season.

    For 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 words
  25. "BOBBIE" PINS.

    The War Production Board has ordered the curtailment of the production of hair pins, especially the "bobbie" type which were ...

    Article : 51 words
  26. AMERICAN FORCES.

    American forces have decided to construct their own recreation centres for the entertainment of troops on Sundays and holidays. "The purpose," said ...

    Article : 259 words
  27. Earth-Moving Plant.

    Cane 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 words
  28. Airliner Still Missing.

    Although reports were circulating in Cairns yesterday that the missing Guinea Airways airliner had been located in the Bartle Frere Range, this ...

    Article : 111 words
  29. OBITUARY. MRS. E. M. PEIRCE.

    The 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 words
  30. Innisfail Accidents.

    G. 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 words
  31. MRS. E. E. JONES.

    The 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 words
  32. JULIAN ASHTON.

    The 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 words
  33. TWO RAILWAYMEN.

    Two 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 words
  34. ENEMY RAIDERS.

    To-days communique, which covers actions ranging from Darwin to the Philippines, reads:— Australia:—At Darwin the enemy ...

    Article : 128 words
  35. NATIONAL CENSUS.

    About 98 per cent of the people forced to register in the national census have returned registration cards. Officials handling the census revealed ...

    Article : 134 words
  36. CHINESE ARRESTED IN JAVA.

    The "Nichi Nichi" reports that the Japanese arrested 200 Chinese in Java and charged them with anti-Japanese activities. ...

    Article : 40 words
  37. ESSENTIAL WORKERS.

    The Industrial Court to-day found that three carpenters employed by the Brisbane City Council on air-raid snelters had absented themselves from ...

    Article : 69 words
  38. ENEMY SUPPLY 8HIP SUNK.

    An Admiralty communique says that the submarine Trident torpedoed and sank a large enemy supply ship off the coast of Norway. ...

    Article : 31 words
  39. SEASONAL WORK.

    The 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 words
  40. UNION ORGANISERS.

    The 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 words
  41. FOOD DELIVERIES.

    Customers as well as shopkeepers win be liable to heavy penalties for branches of the National Security Regulations restricting deliveries of ...

    Article : 105 words
  42. SOLDIER DISCHARGED.

    Matthew Petar [?] Higgins (47), a soldieer, who had [?] having wilfully murdered Joseph Robert Abbott on December 25 last, at Landsborough, ...

    Article : 50 words
  43. BRISBANE COMMANDER.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 48 words
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