Flans for placement of pill boxes, street aprons and trenches to protect the floating population—those in public places when any air raids might ...
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Family Notices : 249 wordsPotatoes were in poor demand at the Roma-street markets on Saturday. Deliveries were light, and the general quality mediocre, the only line released, an ...
Article : 218 wordsA distinguished crowd saw the Governor (Sir Leslie Wilson) cut s red ribbon and declare the Story Bridge open for traffic ...
Article : 538 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) stated on Saturday night that by the middle of next year there would be 80,000, persons engaged in ...
Article : 178 wordsAlan Orvad (9), a newsboy of Mascot, was fatally crushed under a Douglas airliner at Mascot aerodrome this morning. The boy was a frequent ...
Article : 150 wordsIt is expected that Australianmade petrol refined from shale oil will be produced for the first time as Glen Davis within the next ...
Article : 291 wordsAn important disclosure in the petrol regulations issued in Melbourne is the fact that the Liquid Fuel Control Board will have powers to make a charge not ...
Article : 81 wordsAn increase of one halfpenny an ounce in cut tobacco in 1oz. and 2oz. packets was announced to-day by the secretary of the New South wales ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Commonwealth Government is extremely gratified with the wonderful response to the call for subscriptions to the £5,000,000 interest-free ...
Article : 139 wordsBoundaries: Commencing at the corner of McKenzie-street and the Esplanade, by the right along McKenzie-street to Sheridan-street, thence by the left ...
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Advertising : 166 wordsWith the war, wool has come into its own again. The industry was worth £11,500,000 to Queensland for the season just ended. That figure is little ...
Article : 214 wordsThe suggestion that the rapid increase in Commonwealth war taxation should be accompanied by reduction of State expenditure and taxation was ...
Article : 278 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) said last night that the Government had not received any official information that France had severed ...
Article : 221 wordsMaryborough sugar mill commenced crushing last week. It is estimated that the total cane to be treated will be slightly in excess of 60,000 tons, and ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the request of the Cairns Subbranch R.S.S.I.L.A. the Mayor (Ald. W. A. Collins) has called a public meeting in the Council Chambers for ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Revolutionary Workers' League, a branch of the Communist League of Australia[?] was to-day declared illegal by the Federal Government. Action was ...
Article : 134 wordsThe remarkable activity of the Royal Air Force is the topic of the day. It is making history of an extraordinary nature, and ...
Article : 740 wordsJames West (46), labourer, was charged in the Police Court on Saturday before Mr. R. C. Grenier, P.M., that on July 5, he stole three bottles ...
Article : 66 wordsAll officers and N.C.Os. of the M.G. Coy, will attend training cadre at the Drill Hall. Cairns, on Tuesday night. Officers and N.C.Os. of C Coy. ...
Article : 61 wordsRegret that the Queensland Government had not followed the course taken by other States in co-operating with voluntary organisations in the ...
Article : 218 wordsArchbishop Duhig said to-night that he did not leave the Story bridge daring the Premier's speech, nor would [?]e be guilty of such discourtesy to the head ...
Article : 102 wordsFollowing is the report of the Cairns Maternal and Child Welfare Centre and sub-centres for the month of June, 1940: Number of attendances, Cairns ...
Article : 63 wordsMore than 4000 women between 17 and 60 years enlisted in the Women's Australian National Services on Saturday. The officer in charge of recruiting ...
Article : 94 wordsA father and son and another youth were killed when a car was struck by a train at a level crossing between St. Albans and Sydenham this ...
Article : 134 wordsEvery ship leaving England from now until August will be taken over by the British Government to enable the mass evacuation of children to ...
Article : 106 wordsEdward Hogan, of Water-street, while riding a cycle last night came into collision with a motor car at the intersection of McLeod and Florence ...
Article : 61 wordsAs a means of conserving petrol, the State Executive of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen suggests that the running of rail motors ...
Article : 118 wordsA bridegroom and best man were on their way along the Great Eastern Highway this afternoon to attend a wedding when their car knocked down an elderly ...
Article : 104 wordsWhat is stated by the airline company to be the largest consignment of chickens to have been forwarded by air from Australia to New Guinea has ...
Article : 70 wordsW. Clark, of Cairns, driver of a Simplex engine for the Hambledon Mill, was scalded on the face and forehead on Saturday when steam from ...
Article : 45 wordsExpert witnesses told the Senate Military Committee that spectacular features of the German victories, notably tanks, had been grossly overrated. ...
Article : 78 wordsA retired southern medical practitioner who makes annual pilgrimages to Cairns to enjoy the warm climate during the winter months, and who is ...
Article : 131 wordsThe German military commander in Holland (General Christiansen) has issued a communique threatening death and other severe penalties unless the ...
Article : 56 wordsTheodore Martinuzzi (21), of the Esplanade, was treated by the Cairns Ambulance for a laceration under the chin and shock after the motor car he ...
Article : 43 wordsAustralian-Scottish homes for Scottish children during the war was advocated by the Chief of the Warwick Caledonian Society (Mr. B. T. De ...
Article : 136 wordsOne large and several small incised wounds to his left elbow and forearm were received by Patrick Taylor, of Digger-street, yesterday, when he fell ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 299 wordsOn Saturday afternoon Edward Ebrington (3½), of Martyn-street, was attended by the Cairns Ambulance for choking, caused, it was stated, by ...
Article : 46 wordsAbove: The Jeanne d'Arc when she visited Sydney. Below: The aircraft-carrier Beam. Both ships are at Martinique. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 17 wordsAt 11 o'clock on Saturday night the Mareeba Fire Brigade received a call to Floreat Bacon Factory, where a fire had broken out in the building, ...
Article : 145 wordsWhen a motor car somersaulted on the Mareeba-Tolga road, five miles from the former township at 2 a.m. yesterday, the driver, Lance Crothers ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Dominions and Colonial Offices have stated that applications to send children overseas will close to-day until further notice because of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 213 wordsThe issue of badges to men unable to join the A.I.F. is supported by the Beturned Soldiers' League, but opposed by the Director-General of ...
Article : 141 wordswhen his left thumb was jammed in a door, an infant named George Camilinghi. of Daradgee, sustained a lacerated and contused wound, also ...
Article : 165 wordsAttention is drawn to an advertisement in to-day's issue calling on all persons liable to furnish Federal and State Income Tax Returns to forward ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Mon 8 Jul 1940, Page 4
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