BRISBANE, Monday.—Asking the Full Bench of the Indus- trial Court to-day to increase the basic wage to £5 for males and £35 for females, Mr. R. Leggatt, for the combined unions, said there was never a time when it was more ...
Article : 1,393 words"Tin Fish" of the torpedo section of the R.A.F. Coastal Command. Picture shows Air Force men hauling a "shoal" of these "fish" to waiting planes. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, March 16. — The weather provides the most cheerful week-end news about the Balkans—raining and mowing hard throughout the Balkans, also Turkey, and promises to continue. Under the best conditions the roads in ...
Article : 937 wordsLONDON, March 17.—The Air Ministry announces that enemy aircraft attacked a town in the west of England last night, the ...
Article : 464 wordsLONDON, March 17.—The crack German liner, Bremen, has been blazing since yesterday and efforts ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, March 16.—The 'Times,' in a leader, says: President Roosevelt's speech will ring through every free country. No matter what the Gestapo will do to prevent its contents becoming known the speech is bound to have an ...
Article : 487 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Without having passed a single item of legislation, the Federal Parliament is expected to go into recess ...
Article : 325 wordsNEW YORK, March 16.—The British Treasury representative (Sir Edward Peacock) announced he had sold the 125,000,000 dollars American Viscose ...
Article : 244 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—In a complete reorganisation of the various intelligence services at present being conducted by the ...
Article : 273 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—The number of applications received throughout Queensland for exemption from 90- days' camps was "staggering," said a ...
Article : 171 wordsDuring recent years a large wont has been spent on Mackay [?]ome for the purpose of an [?]it an all weather landing ...
Article : 481 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—It was announced by the Air Board to-night that seven Australians, three of them serving with a Sunderland squadron ...
Article : 102 wordsBRISBANE, Monday. — Additional work and orders worth more than £300,000 have been placed in Queensland by the State Munitions Board lately. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 wordsWASHINGTON, March 16.—Th(Navy announced that six warships of the Pacific Fleet are visiting Auckland for three days. They are scheduled ...
Article : 109 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Judge O'Mara asked one of the employers representatives in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day whether he ...
Article : 290 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Under Secretary to the Department of Justice (Mr. M. G. Nott) told the Royal Commission into the Abbco bread case ...
Article : 194 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Harvey Oliver Potts was charged at the Wellington Court this morning with having murdered his wife, Ida Patricia Potts ...
Article : 95 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—The Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender) announced to-day that steps were being taken by the military ...
Article : 83 wordsThe appointment of a deputy- manager to relieve the engineer- manager (Mr. G. E. Wellerd) was further dealt with by the City ...
Article : 249 wordsLONDON, March 17.—The British United Press Cairo correspondent says that the British are now within easy gun range of Jig Jiga, and the final ...
Article : 148 wordsSTANTHORPE. Monday.—A double tragedy occurred last night at the orchard of Reginald Lackey, of The Summit, on the N.S. Wales side of ...
Article : 99 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Sitting in Admiralty jurisdiction, Mr, Justice Dixon found in the High Court today that the collision between the ...
Article : 127 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender) stated today that as a result of expansion of the citizen military forces and the ...
Article : 132 wordsROMA, Monday.—Further testing of Roma Blocks No. 4 bore will be made when the bore is cased and cemented which will occupy several days. The ...
Article : 91 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—Rev. G. H. Devlin, who until his license was revoked recen'ly was Anglican vicar of Rosedale, 130 miles from Melbourne, ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, March 16.—A Lisbon message says: The United States military representative (Colonel Donovan) left for America by clipper after an ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, March 16,—A Berlin message says: It is officially stated that from March 12 to 15 the enemy lost 31 planes, of which 11 were shot ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, March 16.—Swiss radio reports that the Swedish Government has called up an unspecified number of reservists, and states that it is ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Tue 18 Mar 1941, Page 5
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