At an Important public meeting held in Cairns last night it was decided to appoint a delegation to present the claims of North ...
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Family Notices : 95 wordsFollowing on a meeting of the local committee of the Liquid Fuel Control Board at the Cairns Court House yesterday, several observations were made ...
Article : 389 wordsIntroducing a Bill to amend the Primary Producers' Organisation and Marketing Acts, the Peanut Industry Act and the Fruit Marketing ...
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Article : 147 wordsA forecast has been made by the Minister for Munitions, Mr. Makin, that cruiser tanks will be produces in Australia on a scale not ...
Article : 722 wordsThe formation of a production executive of the Government to correlate the higher direction of the war effort by defence services with that of the ...
Article : 149 wordsThe second Victoria Cross of the war to go to a member of the Australian forces and the third to go to an Australian has been awarded by the King ...
Article : 355 wordsA preliminary report by the Joint Committee on Rural Industries was recently laid upon the table of the House of Representatives, and it has now been ...
Article : 803 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin) said to-day that Australia would give all the help it could to Russia. Commenting on public references to the ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Mobile Unit, accompanied by a Universal carrier, visited Tolga yesterday at noon and gave a demonstration in the front of the school grounds. The ...
Article : 698 wordsThe R.A.A.F. Benalla court martial sentences were announced to-day by Air Vice-Marshal H. Wrigley. They were: Leading Aircraftsman Robert ...
Article : 208 wordsState boundaries were swept away by the delegates at a conference of the Federal Council of the Australian Comforts Fund to-day, when it wa: ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Federal Ministry is having a proper survey made of the best purposes to be served by the recruiting of women for the defence services. The ...
Article : 135 wordsThe thermometer at the Cairns Post Office yesterday recorded the following figures: Maximum 84.2 degrees, minimum 69.5 degrees. The comparative ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is possible that wet canteens ni Brisbane will shortly take on the atmosphere of gentlemen's clubs, Colonel J. K. Murray, Commanding ...
Article : 217 wordsAt Frankston Police Court to-day an order was made against L. O. B. Fleetwood-Smith, the international Test cricketer, for £32/1/10, with £2/7/ ...
Article : 119 wordsA round trip of 30 miles was yesterday undertaken by the Cairns Ambulance fwhen bearers motored to Mt. Peter, west of Edmonton, to attend Mr. D. ...
Article : 69 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. F. W. Bulcock) introduced an amendment to the Dairy Produce Acts which seeks ...
Article : 481 wordsThere [?] no change in the position at the Innisfail quarry, where quarrymen have declined to supply road material [?]or lorries owned by ...
Article : 62 wordsAt a recent public meeting held at Innisfail, and addressed by Mr. G. Taylor, M.L.A, chairman of the Brisbane Committee' of the Medical Aid to ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Coal and Shale Oil Mine Workers Pensions Bill was a paltry contribution to the humanitarian treatment of the miners, said Mr. E. B. Maher ...
Article : 101 wordsBy a majority of one vote, the caucus to-day rejected a proposal by the Government that the old-age pension be increased from 21/6 to 23/6 a week, ...
Article : 165 wordsThe half-yearly revision of the railway time-tables has been completed, and the new time-tables will operate on and after next Sunday, November 2. ...
Article : 104 wordsFederal legislation to ensure greater co-operation between patriotic funds and to avoid waste of money raised was advocated by the chairman of the ...
Article : 351 wordsA conference of Ministers and war service chiefs will be held in Melbourne on November 10 to discuss all phases of recruiting for the various ...
Article : 105 wordsNo. 1 Mobile Recruiting Unit held a rally in By[?]ne-street, Mareeba, last night. Mr. W. H. Simms was chairman, and the speakers were Corporal ...
Article : 148 wordsThe death has taken place at the age of 76 of Mr. James Mitchell, C.B.E., who served in the New South Wales Police Force from 1884 until his ...
Article : 124 wordsNo solution has yet been found to the mystery of how a registered letter and a quantity of parcel mail disappeared from the Mackay Post Office ...
Article : 131 wordsAn exhaustive inquiry into the costplus system whereunder many private contracting firms are carrying out defence orders, and into the ...
Article : 68 wordsAustralian short-wave broadcasts have been "jammed" during the last few weeks. Secret plans have been made to give the A.I.F. abroad a ...
Article : 78 wordsLieut-General Sir Iven Mackay, general officer commanding the Home Defences force of Australia, arrived at Cairns from Brisbane by plane ...
Article : 159 wordsThe appointment of six Federal parliamentarians to visit England, America and Canada at the invitation ot the Empire Parliamentary ...
Article : 122 wordsThe following donations have been received towards the Cairns Patriotic Fund: Amount previously ...
Article : 50 wordsThe British Government has recognised formally the independence of Syria, which General Catroux proclaimed on September 27. The King ...
Article : 44 wordsBy special arrangements, Renters World Service, in addition to otter special sources of Information, is used in the compilation of the Overseas ...
Article : 83 wordsJack Hanchard (24), labourer, who escaped from a warder at Prince Henry Hospital on Saturday, was sentenced at Sydney Central Police Court to-day ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Queensland weather forecast issued at 5 p.m. yesterday for the ensuing 24 hours was: Some further scattered thunderstorms in the tropical ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Wed 29 Oct 1941, Page 4
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