The President of the Queensland Branch of the United Australia Party (Mr. L. Lawrence) said to-day that the Prime ...
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Family Notices : 172 wordsLieut.-Colonel L. Moore Cosgrave, senior Canadian Trade Commissioner in Australia, arrived to-day to study economic conditions with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 554 wordsSeveral tin field residents visited Cairns for the show, among them being Mr. H. Sycamore, Mr. and Mrs. W. Sycamore, Messrs. J. and P. Hatfield, G. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe ten victims of the bomber fatality near Canberra on August 13 were killed when a Lockheed Hudson plane struck the ground, ...
Article : 518 wordsThe Minister for Transport (Mr. J. Larcombe) announced to-day that the tender of Walkers Ltd., Maryborough, for the construction of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsThe Council of Progress Associations of Brisbane has joined with the Returned Soldiers' League in a protest against the decision of the City ...
Article : 423 wordsHigh appreciation of the services by H.M.A.S. Hobart in the evacuation from Somaliland is given in a message which the Federal Government ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) on Sunday denied emphatically that his opposition had led the Victorian Premier (Mr. A. Dunstanu) to decide against ...
Article : 126 wordsGeorge Antonakos, farm labourer at Garradunga, sustained a painful lacerated and contused third finger of the left hand owing to being caught between ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Empire is fighting for its life against a vicious attack by unscrupulous men whose desire is to dominate the world and remove ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsWhile engaged in carrying rails in the cane paddock of Munro's farm, Gordonvale, at 9 a.m. yesterday. Jack Burns (45), cane cutter, was bitten on ...
Article : 65 wordsGerald Patterson, twice world's singled tennis champion, announced last night that he intended to contest Corio and would seek U.A.P. endorsement. At the ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. J. W. Robinson, postal clerk at Millaa Millaa, is temporarily relieving at the Cairns Post Office, vice Mr. S. A. Withers, who is in military camp. ...
Article : 75 wordsIn support of Gladstone's claims as a wool appraisement centre, the Harbour Board this morning decided to send the following telegram to the ...
Article : 110 wordsFollowing the prohibition last week of the importation into Australia of British notes the Commonwealth Bank advises that people holding any of them ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Country Party chose Mr. E. A. Hiskens, composing rooms superintendent, of Rockhampton, as the Country Party candidate for Capricornia. ...
Article : 26 wordsLeonard Joseph Jones (39) failed to appear in the Cairns Police Court yesterday to answer a charge that he was a vagrant within the meaning of the ...
Article : 80 wordsOn the grounds that the plaintiff had no right to sue alone and that the claim had, not been substantiated, Judge Maxwell, sitting with a jury in Sydney, ...
Article : 260 wordsThe forecast for Queensland, issued at 5 p.m. yesterday for the ensuing 24 hours, is: Fine except for an isolated shower or two on the tropical coast ...
Article : 71 wordsA gift of £100 by this illiterate aged Indian, Mor-tee, to a patriotic queen carnival at Roma has met with immediate response. Several other residents ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsA debt owed in Dandenong more than 5 years age is to be paid. Mr. Stewart Scott, principal of Alex Scott and Co. Pty. Ltd. ...
Article : 108 wordsAs a large part of the A.I.F. is still in Australia any shortage of universal trainees would not seriously affect the mobilisation for home defence, said ...
Article : 108 wordsTommy Tiger (40) and Lambert Atkinson (24), aborigines, appeared in the Cairns Police Court yesterday on a charge of having been found drunk in ...
Article : 71 wordsYesterday the vanguard of the 51st Battalion settled down to duties at Parramatta Park, where officers, n.c.o's and potential n.c.o's will undergo a ...
Article : 498 wordsEnrolment for compulsory military training is now taking place at the Drill Hall, Tully. Many sugar workers are under the impression that they are ...
Article : 97 wordsThe failure of Australian tennis players to enlist was criticised by members of the Council of the Lawn Tennis Association to-night. The ...
Article : 215 wordsFrench demobilised soldiers have smashed windows of shops in the Champs Elysees, the proprietors of which refused to take their money, allegedly ...
Article : 280 wordsHealth Inspector McHenry Lowes proceeded against a number of milk vendors at the Townsville court to-day for supplying adulterated milk and the ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. W. J. F. Riordan, M.H.R., has been advised by the Deputy Director, Posts and Telegraphs, that a metallic circuit (double wire) trunk line is in ...
Article : 114 wordsA British war communique issued at General Headquarters, Cairo, to-day states: "Enemy aircraft carried out indiscriminate bombing of the town of ...
Article : 54 wordsAir-raid shelters of three types have been built in the Domain in the last few weeks. Thousands of people have inspected them, some out of curiosity, ...
Article : 93 wordsNearly 80,000 applications for consumers rationing licences have been lodged with the liquid fuel control authorities in Queensland. ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the Innisfail Police Court yesterday before Mr. C. Burchill, P.M., Robert Alexander pleaded guilty to riding a cycle without a light attached along ...
Article : 141 wordsNorthern Rivers sugar growers still are not convinced that sufficient interest is being shown in the industry in New South Wales. ...
Article : 235 wordsA magnificent collection of 30,000 moths and butterflies obtained throughout Australia by the late Wilfred Bourne Barnard, pastoralist, of The Summit, in the ...
Article : 67 wordsThree hundred dairymen unanimously adopted a resolution requesting the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Bulcock) immediately to withdraw the ...
Article : 161 wordsTwenty-six European passengers, arming aboard the Bermuda Clipper, were subjected to an unprecedented search by an augmented immigration ...
Article : 32 wordsFines amounting to £100 were imposed on two aged Chinese in the local Police Court, when they pleaded guilty to charges of having opium and pipes ...
Article : 148 wordsAn instructor at the Northern Command N.C.O.'s training school at Enoggera, lecturing a class on the mechanism of the Vickers machine gun. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 28 wordsAt a special session of the Bermuda assembly yesterday, it was announced that Great Sound at the western end of the group will be made available to ...
Article : 61 wordsMr, F. G. Darker, assistant maintenance engineer of the Queensland Railways, died to-day after a short illness. For many years Mr. Darker ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 75 wordsA former South African Minister in the Low Countries (D. Vanbrock Hoezen) stated that Afrikanders who fondly imagined that Hitler would ...
Article : 98 wordsThe correspondent of "The Times" on the German frontier says that under the gigantic headline "Kign of England Puts Himself at the Head of ...
Article : 83 wordsThe American Associated Press Basic correspondent says that Germany has reopened the Basic railway frontier gateway between Switzerland and ...
Article : 39 wordsThe death has occurred of Edward Machelin, the tyre manufacture, aged [?]4. ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Tue 27 Aug 1940, Page 4
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