Military experts are confident that the fall of Tobruk is imminent. This is attributed to General Wavell's careful preparation while nominally occupied. ...
Article : 435 wordsMaize was in exceptionally heavy supply at Roma-street to-day and values declined sharply on recent high rates. Sales were made from 6/3½ to 6/3. ...
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Advertising : 92 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. M[?] announced to-day that Cabinet had decided to constitute an Australian Armoured Corps. ...
Article : 419 wordsThere was a big rush of recruits at the R.A.A.F. depot to-day following the appeal for unlimited recruiting. Two hundred men ...
Article : 115 wordsFurther rain fall over the Central West of Queensland on Tuesday night. The area down the Thomson River, which did not ...
Article : 458 wordsExpectations that the war would check migration from Britain, which was on the point of resumption by assisted passages 18 months ago, ...
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Family Notices : 188 wordsTransfers of assignment of cane lands now submitted to the Central Sugar Cane Prices Board for approval will not be allowed except on certain conditions, the ...
Article : 106 wordsThough the Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) still refuses to discuss his plans, it is almost certain that he will make a trip abroad. From sources close ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. P. R. T. Wills, secretary to the Commissioner, has been appointed Commissioner of Railways as from March 9. He will succeed Mr. C. A. ...
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Advertising : 80 wordsFive pieces of bone which the police claimed to have recovered from a deep bore hole on Boorara Station were human, said Dr. E. Derrick, Director of the ...
Article : 623 wordsThe following State forecast was issued in Brisbane yesterday at 5 p.m. for the ensuing 24 hours: Scattered showers on the sub-tropical coast, ...
Article : 49 wordsA strike of moulders, ironworkers and engine drivers in all foundries throughout the metropolitan area is threatened as a result of a meeting ...
Article : 307 wordsThe public-mind is becoming weary bf the never-ending threats to strike. The Empire is at war; Australia is at war. To close ...
Article : 860 wordsThe thermometer at the Cairns Post Office yesterday recorded the following figures: Maximum 86.8 degrees, minimum 75. The comparative ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Stan Grey, a farmer, was admitted to a private hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from contused wounds on the top of the head. These ...
Article : 49 wordsFollowing the recent Country Week Carnival, three country players have been included in the Queensland team to play Victoria in Brisbane on January 18-22. ...
Article : 235 words"The whole of New Zealand joins with me in the warmest congratulations on the outstanding success of the Australian troops in the Western ...
Article : 120 wordsFor the six months ended December, Queensland had a deficit of £1,341,542, compared with £1,219,532 for the same period last year. Revenue amounted to ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Royal Australian Air Force in its drive for an unlimited number of recruits, both as ground staff and air crews, has arranged the itinerary for ...
Article : 68 wordsAt a special meeting of the Atherton Hospital Board on Monday night the secretary (Mr. V. McConky) submitted the resignation of Mr. L. C. Moreton ...
Article : 100 wordsReviewing the financial position, the State Premier (Mr. Forgan Smith) said that revenue from all sources exceeded that of the corresponding period of the ...
Article : 199 wordsThough the Queensland U.A.P. still hopes for unity, the president (Mr. D. Lawrence) announced to-day that if it is not achieved his party would contest ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Minister for Information (Senator H. S. Foll) said last night that no details of the Australian casualties in Bardia had been received in Australia. ...
Article : 139 wordsThe registration of 47 points in the 24-hour period to 9 a.m. Wednesday brought the rainfall figure for the month to 3 inches 41 points. Every ...
Article : 87 wordsIntense atmospheric conditions continue to prevail throughout the city and district. Heavy rains have fallen in various parts of the Far North at ...
Article : 80 wordsIn the Summons Court yesterday before Mr. E. L. Moore, Acting P.M., Charles Andrews, Albert Unis, Albert William Christensen and Frank Scott ...
Article : 104 wordsThe parties having failed to reach an agreement, Justice O'Mara, in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day, directed that there should be a ...
Article : 196 wordsLifeboats rescued a record number of 2052 last year, including [?] airmen from aircraft. ...
Article : 28 wordsA message of congratulation on the part played by the A.I.F. in the capture of Bardia has been received by the Govenor-General (Lord Gowrie) ...
Article : 120 wordsAfter four inches of rain had fallen in little more than 24 hours to-day a creek near Quirindi broke its banks and swept away the central span of the railway ...
Article : 182 wordsFour members of the Jehovah's Witnesses organisation were found guilty at the Burwood Police Court yesterday of having refused to take the military oath. ...
Article : 64 wordsAt the Innisfail Licensing Court on Wednesday Mr. C. Burchill, P.M., granted district auctioneers' licences to Messrs. J. T. Robertson, Edgar ...
Article : 96 wordsA feature of 1940 in Atherton has been the remarkable expansion of building. The town has grown so rapidly in the last few years that a ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture W. Bulcock) said to-day that tea growing in Queensland was not an economic possibility while Australian conditions were ...
Article : 91 wordsThe death occurred in Cairns yesterday of Mr. George Henri Kuszncr, of 109 Bunda-street, at the age of 50 years. Deceased, who was born at Irvinebank, ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Dutch Minister in London (Count Stirum) said that the Netherlands East Indies would resist invasion and aggression from whatever quarter, whether she ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Attorney-General (Mr. J. O'Keefe) announced yesterday that under the Firms Act registered firms should renew their registrations this ...
Article : 115 wordsHarry L. Hopkins, President Roosevelt's personal representative in Britain, has arrived. He expects to go to London to-morrow. ...
Article : 31 wordsJudgments were given plaintiffs in the Magistrate's Court yesterday by Mr. E. L. Moore, Acting P.M., in the following claims: A. J. Draper Pty. ...
Article : 133 wordsGeneral Sikorski, Polish Prime Minister, takes the salute at the march-past of the 1st P[?] [?] with the Al[?] were celebrating in Britain the anniversary of Po[?] Independence—Commonwealth Department of Information photo. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 55 wordsMr. Michael Doolan, an old identity of the Cooktown district, died in Cairns early yesterday morning at the age of 70 years. Deceased was born near ...
Article : 159 wordsAnnual renewal of licences were granted in the Licensing Court yesterday by Mr. E. L. Moore, Acting P.M. Commission agents' licences: George ...
Article : 173 wordsAngelo Pascoe was charged in the Summons Court yesterday before Mr. E. L. Moore, Acting P.M., with having carried liquor for delivery without ...
Article : 236 wordsThe famous natural history collection of the late Mr. F. P. Dodd, which has been viewed by thousands of Australians at the tourist centre of ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Thu 9 Jan 1941, Page 4
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