Militiamen and the national Service recruits from the Cairas district will go into a three months' camp in the vicinity of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 wordsAlthough the expected cool change which reached Brisbane early this morning was shortlived the Divisional Meteorologist ...
Article : 980 wordsA week-end? expedition for. grasshoppers and other entomological specimens ended in death for Andre Leon. Tonnoir, the brilliant senior ...
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Article : 186 wordsOne of the most vital conferences in the history of the Australian Workers' Union opened here this afternoon Twenty-nine ...
Article : 428 wordsTin is quoted at 46 cents. ...
Article : 12 wordsTen trucks of Dorrigo potaotes were on offer at Roma-street to-day, comprising six trucks of fresh deliveries and four held over from the week-end. ...
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Article : 139 wordsThe Minister for Aviation (Mr. J. V. Fairbairn) stated to-day that the organisation for receiving the first, recruits under the Empire air scheme ...
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Advertising : 85 wordsErnest Lynch, his wife and son Peter (14) were reseued by firemen from their burning residence over their butcher's shop, Leichhardt, at 4.30 this ...
Article : 153 wordsTwo masked thieves secured a large sum of money, worth several hundred pounds, when they robbed Herbert William Wilson, a railway employee ...
Article : 98 wordsGood quality fruit and vegetables have arrived in Cairns this week, but the quantity has not been large, which is believed to be due to the high prices ...
Article : 51 wordsYesterday was the final day for enrolment and medical examinations for the 51st Battalion area, which comprises Cairns, Gordonvale, Babinda, ...
Article : 165 wordsAir transport is being recognised as one of the chief undertakings in the work of the Empire. It has ceased to be a novelty. ...
Article : 762 wordsShortly before two o'clock yesterday morning the Fire Brigade, received a call to the Greek Club in Owen-street, where an outbreak had occurred in a ...
Article : 70 wordsBush fires which swept through the Yass district on Sunday and Monday burnt out thosuands of acres, destroyed tthousands of pounds worth of ...
Article : 362 wordsThe last of the bingo and bagatelle permits expire to-morrow night, and the Government will not renew them. This means the end of gambling fair ...
Article : 103 wordsAlthough the registration of aliens was commenced months ago, a considerable number has not yet bothered to come to the registration offices, and ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Chief of General Staff (Lieutenant-General Squires) underwent a serious operation in a private hospital at East Melbourne to-day. To-night he ...
Article : 102 wordsSignallers of the 5lst Battalion are reminded that an all-day parade will be held on Sunday next (February 1). The parade will commence at the drill ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsConsequent on a report of an obnoxious odour arising from a small tin hut on the bank of the Mulgrave River in proximity to Gordonvale, the ...
Article : 103 wordsThe thermometer at the Cairns Post Office yesterday recorded the following figures: Maximum, 93.6 degrees; minimum, 72 degrees. The ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. D. Smythe, from Maryborough, will commence duty to-day as stationmaster at the Cairns Railway Station. He has exchanged positions with Mr. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Under-secretary for Labour (Mr. Lennox Boyd) said that all margarine will be vitaminised on February 2. The introduction of vitamins ...
Article : 84 wordsThe price of flour, for Queensland was fixed to-night by the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Professor, Copland) in a special order. He ...
Article : 65 wordsA 12-foot shark caught by Messrs. G. MacDonnell and G. Kelly's party near Buchan's Point on Sunday night, contained a goat, with its collar, also ...
Article : 127 wordsMr. Edward James Dougherty, who died at Gordonvale last Saturday, was one of the pioneers of the Tableland districts, and commenced dairying in ...
Article : 280 wordsA motor car owned by Mr. Vincent Prince, tailor, of Innisfail, was destroyed by fire on the Kalbo road, between Currajah and Pin Gin, Hill, at ...
Article : 78 wordsThe police learnt to-day that a 17 year-old youth living at Wooloongabba was bitten by a shark but not seriously injured when he dived into the ...
Article : 62 wordsAnthony Brooke, who learned after his arrival to-day that his uncle, Sir Charles Brooke, had deprived him of the title of Crown Prince of Sarawak. ...
Article : 120 wordsNot much of the raw sugar manufactured in the Innisfail district during the last busy season remains. The final cargo from Goondi mill was ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the Cairns Summons Court yesterday, before the Magistrate (Mr. R. C. Grenier) Eugenie Tersey Godfrey proceeded against Leslive William ...
Article : 110 wordsMany big bush fires are still burning in New South Wales, but most of them are under control. In the Yass district, on the South Coast, and near ...
Article : 104 wordsAt the Innisfail Court of Petty Sessions this morning, before Mr. C. Burehill, P.M., William Henry Woodford was proceeded against (n a ...
Article : 218 wordsWork commenced yesterday on the building of a new siding from the main railway into the Queerah Meatworks, between Cairns abd, ...
Article : 85 wordsIt is believed that the great majority of the stings to bathers, of which a considerable number has been reported on the beaches near Cairns ...
Article : 143 wordsWilliam John Warnes died yesterday, aged 104, after two days' illness. He was a native of the east coast of England and came to Australia in ...
Article : 64 wordsThe disappearance of a member of the crew of an overseas ship short before reaching Townsville, was [?] ported this morning. It was ...
Article : 96 wordsJ. Hing (16), an apprenticed plumber, sustained a punctured wound on the left forearm when a piece of steel entered. The Ambulance gave ...
Article : 100 wordsGrane Fields' divorce from her husband has been made absolute. ...
Article : 31 wordsF. Greer, engine driver at Goondi Mill, got a piece of steel embedded in his. left eye while at work yesterday. He was given first-aid by the ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Wed 31 Jan 1940, Page 6
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