A staff of about 400 men is now employed by the Main Roads Board on its outside operations in the three divisions of the State. This total is irrespective ...
Article : 566 wordsThe display at the ninth annual show, which was opened to-day, constituted a very considerable advance on previous years. The improvements to the grounds ...
Article : 893 wordsAt a meeting of the Council of Agriculture yesterday Mr. Richard Lewis Macgregor, of West Australia, was unanimously recommonded for appointment. ...
Article : 1,416 wordsSir,—Relative to the bronze statue of the late T. J. Ryan, which his admir[?] propose to erect in the Queen's Gardens as a recognition "of the great service he ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 726 wordsMembers of the Federal Parliament listened with great interest to-day to a lecture by the Chairman of Directors of the Australian Cotton Growers' Association ...
Article : 431 wordsSir,—Would you allow me to draw attention, through your columns, to the entire and pro[?]ged absence of leg[?] drama in Brisbane? Brisbanettes have ...
Article : 264 wordsThe Premier (Sir James Mitche[?]) admitted to-day that when in London a financial group approached him seeking to purchase the State sawmills. The ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Premier (Sir James Mitchell), referring to the proposal to float a company with £3,000,000 capital to develop the North West, in the region of King ...
Article : 139 wordsArmed [?]en made an unsuccessful attempt to rob Mr. Gustave Leifferman, paymaster of the Temora wheat silos, on a lonely road near Mirrool yesterday ...
Article : 183 wordsLind, Holland, and Co., carrying on business as carriers in Roma-street, were proceeded against, in the Industrial Court yesterday, by Inspector A. E. Hall, of ...
Article : 223 words"Whilst reaffirming the Federation's opposition to Government trading, this conference, considering the special circumstances surrounding the industry, ...
Article : 646 wordsSir,—In "Veritas' " letter, in your Monday's issue, the writer refers to Mr. Huxham's statement "that in Class IX. schools (attendance 31 to 60) two teachers ...
Article : 311 wordsSupported by the reort of Mr. Duncan Milson, an American engineer and geologist, that the Red, White, and Blue gold-mining lease, near Norseman, ...
Article : 170 wordsThe 43rd annual show at Rosewood was opened in the presence of a record attendance to-day by the president of the Queensland Chamber of Agricultural ...
Article : 1,025 wordsBefore Mr. W. Harris, P.M., in the Central Police Court yesterday, James Taylor and William Clive Legge, each 18 years of age labourers, pleaded guilty to a ...
Article : 482 wordsAt Burra Burri, 21 miles from Jandowac, yesterday, Desmond Nobbs. aged 4[?] years, was thrown out of a sulky and killed. His father had left two children, the ...
Article : 76 wordsA message from Broome states that a special meeting of the committee of the Pearlers' Association has resolved that while some of the allegations regarding ...
Article : 49 wordsWith her flag half-mast, the steamer Omana arrived at Port Adelaide with a cargo of timber to-day. The vessel left Melbourne at 3.30 p.m. on Monday, and ...
Article : 149 wordsSir,—I wish through your valued medium and with your kind permission to draw the attention of the Price Fixing Commissioner to a glaring case of ...
Article : 130 wordsOver £3000 has now been subscribed to the Anzac Memorial Avenue Fund, this amount having come largely from the motorists of Brisbane. An appeal will ...
Article : 130 wordsSir,—The cattle breeders are in urgent need of relief, and unless they get it very soon many must go down and out. The unfortunate cattle brecders who have ...
Article : 170 wordsWhile Mrs. Christina Munro, wife of the occupier of a seven-roomed house in Stephens-road, South Brisbane, was engaged in doing some washing at the house ...
Article : 293 wordsBefore the Railway Appeal Board, presided over by Mr. H. L. Archdall, C.P.M., yesterday, Ganger Albert Edward Petfield, of Eudlo, appealed against his ...
Article : 174 wordsAn examination will be held on November 9 and 10 in Brisbane and elsewhere, as may be decided by the Minister for Agriculture and Stock, for four bursaries at the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Mossman sugar mill expects to start crushing next week, when all the mills in the north, including four on the Lower Burdekin, will be at work. When ...
Article : 86 wordsSir,—Kindly permit me space in your esteemed paper to express my opinion regarding the action of the Stephens Shire Council in refusing a place on ...
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Advertising : 2,010 wordsThe Minister for L[?]nds yesterday received a deputation from the Pa[?]mwoods Farmers' Progress Association, which asked that the Government should make available for ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Rodgers) made several attempts to introduce his sugar statement and balance-sheet in the House of Representatives to-day but the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Archbishop of Brisbane (Dr. Sharp) will administer confirmation at St. Barnabas' Church, Waterworks-road, at 7.30 to-night. Candidates from that congregation and ...
Article : 61 wordsNo actual or suspicious cases of bubonic plague were reported in Queensland yesterday. Bacteriological examination was made of 166 rate, 112 mice, and two ...
Article : 41 wordsRecord entries have been received in many classes for the Mount Gravatt Show which will be opened to-morrow, Special trams will run from North Quay to ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 21 Jul 1922, Page 9
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