YAP, Japanese staging and supply base in the Western Carolines, was hit by MacArthur's bombers for the first time on Tuesday night. This strike, heavy raids on ...
Article : 490 wordsThe Improved war position in the Pacific has permitted modification of food storage rules under the emergency ...
Article : 227 wordsepical of the excellent armoured equipment which is being used against the Japanese on Biak Island, Dutch New Guinea, is this mobile multiple machine gun. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 68 wordsBoy soldiers of the German army, captured on the French beaches, awaiting shipment to Britain. At Right: A young French girl ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 95 wordsPREFERENCE in applications for the first 100 houses to be erected in Queensland for purchase under the Federal war housing plan, will be given to people on low incomes with families. ...
Article : 302 wordsFIRST news of the American invasion fleet at Hollandia was brought to a band of missionaries there by a small native ...
Article : 164 wordsTOOWOOMBA, Friday.—Industrial politics as the basis of the party's policy was agreed to to-day at the ...
Article : 157 wordsSOUTH PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, June 16.—"We may meet later along the road to Tokio," said Admiral Halsey when he left to-day ...
Article : 185 wordsEstablishment of community centres embodying buildings to serve as memorials to the fallen in this war was suggested at a meeting in ...
Article : 227 wordsTOOWOOMBA, Friday.—Proposed transfer of powers from the States to the Commonwealth was denounced by the Australian Country Party (Queensland) Conference to-day. A motion by the leader of ...
Article : 895 wordsAFTER an absence of nearly five weeks hot meals reappeared on C.C.C. Camp t cooks on strike resumed work. Excent for a few men who had ...
Article : 295 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.-The Federal Government is considering tentative plans to reduce Australia's indebtedness abroad by ...
Article : 167 wordsThe fact that tens of thousands of semi-trained men were now in the engineering industry, by agreement between the union and the ...
Article : 136 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—A former theatre usherette, Valerie Fletcher, of Regent, Vic, now a Land Army girl, topped ...
Article : 89 wordsA big drainage scheme at Cairns to combat the incidence of malaria, although just nearing completion, already has had excellent results. ...
Article : 190 wordsIn six days 42,500 people have Inspected the exhibition of captured enemy war equipment now on show in the City Hall. Up to ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, .June 16 (Special).— Immediate award of the D.S.O. has been made to Flying Officer Peter Gerald West. R.A.F., who is ...
Article : 178 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) said night that the bombing of cities in Japan proper was not only great ...
Article : 176 wordsAllegation that a trimmer in a coastal ship said that he was invited to help himself to shirts was made in the Police Court yesterday. It was stated that a Melbourne of manchester, drapery, and mercery, value ...
Article : 370 wordsCANBERRA. Friday.—Proposals by the Transport Minister (Mr. Ward) to bring all inter-state travel under his department's ...
Article : 135 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—From Monday pineapples will be sold to the public on a weight basis. An official announcement to this effect ...
Article : 134 wordsThe High Court expressed approval yesterday of the thoroughness of the judgments Riven by Mr. Justice Philp and Mr. Justice ...
Article : 172 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Steps to ensure that dairy farmers spend part of their £7,500,000 subsidy on fodder will be examined by the ...
Article : 85 wordsMACKAY, Friday.—The Mackay Show ended to-day with a substantial profit. Competition was confined to district areas. The ...
Article : 65 words"The total value of the property mentioned in the charges is E645/14/4, of which property valued at, £231 has been recovered." ...
Article : 128 wordsLt.-Commander Ron McKauge, well-known Brisbane yachtsman and swimming official, is back in Brisbane after nearly four years ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 151 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Friday.—Towns-ville City Council decided to-day to ask the Government for permission to hold a poll to decide whether to ...
Article : 122 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Limited supplies of tobacco had been sent by air to relieve the shortage among troops in Dutch New ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Pineapple Sectional Group Committee manager (Mr. W. A. Mawbey) said last night that if thfi Canberra announcement were ...
Article : 94 wordsCaptain I. J. Burch, who has been Deputy-Director of Navigation and Lighthouses for Queensland for the last eight years, will ...
Article : 125 wordsWAR DIET CHECK: Miss Elizabeth Gardiner, Mrs. Dorothy Sides, and Misses Margaret Burvill and Lucille Beet, some of the University graduates, who arc making a home check for the Commonwealth Health Department on whether people are receiving ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 86 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Plans to relieve immediately Sydney's over-crowded living conditions were announced by the Labour Minister ...
Article : 50 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—The trial of Antonio Agostini, 41, Italian waiter, will open in the Melbourne Criminal Court on ...
Article : 170 wordsArrangements for transfer of the hospital for sick servicewomen from Redbank to Yeronga were almost complete, and it was ...
Article : 81 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—A suggestion from Melbourne that all parts of the Empire should assist in rebuilding the British House of ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, June 16 (Special). —Men fighting overseas as well as workers at home are awaiting to-morrow with more ...
Article : 272 wordsCanberra, Friday.—in an industrial mobilisation survey Canada was examining all industries and employment of all ...
Article : 99 wordsPost-war plans oi the Government include the transfer of the Aged People's Home at Dunwich and the leper lazarette at Peel ...
Article : 54 wordsBuilt as a memorial to the last war, St. Augustine's, Hamilton, has now been freed of debt and will be consecrated by Archbishop ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Sat 17 Jun 1944, Page 3
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