WHISTLING, cheering, and shouting to the crowds and waving Japanese swords from the portholes, 8th Division men on the Largs Boy thoroughly enjoyed the grand welcome they ...
Article : 443 wordsHIGHLIGHTS of the arrival of the Largs Bay yesterday with the largest contingent of ex-prisoners of war yet to come to Brisbane. ABOVE LEFT: The first surge of the welcoming crowd, which broke through the gates and thronged the wharf. RIGHT: Private Noel Elliott getting one of "mum's apple pies" handed to him by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 225 wordsTHE Acting Premier (Mr. Hanlon) last night praised Mr. A. J. Jones, former Lord Mayor, who died yesterday as a Labour pioneer. "He helped the Labour ...
Article : 475 wordsCpl. Helen Alicon Upton, A.W, A.S. driver, it to-day's entrant in the "Miss Australia" competition. Cpl Upton lives at Bank Road. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 150 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Sunday.—Holdup of Dutch ships' has extended to North Queensland. The Karsick, bound from ...
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Article : 72 wordsMANY servicemen are finding great difficulty in getting housing accommodation on their return to civil life. Some are already bitter. Letters appealing for help on housing are a regular feature of the Editor's mail. ...
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Article : 605 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Money-lenders among military and civilian prisoners made small fortunes in the Singapore camps, according to A.I.F. men who returned to Sydney on the Arawa yesterday. ...
Article : 206 wordsHeavyweight, middleweight, and lightweight champion of the 8th Division, Alf. Lalham, of Townsville, won a Jap snakeskin wallet ...
Article : 157 wordsSix people received minor injuries when a Royal Navy truck and a tram collided in Hamilton Road, near Crescent Road ...
Article : 83 wordsTwo Australian sailors complained to The Courier-Mail last night prices at the army canteen in Adelaide Street were too high. ...
Article : 95 wordsFALL FROM HORSE.—Jean Olive Sgolander, 28, married, of Breakfast Creek Road, Newstead. fell from a horse in Eagle Farm ...
Article : 110 wordsCANBERRA. Sunday.—The Duke land Duchess of Gloucester helped ito muster cattle during a fourdays' holiday at Cassilis, central ...
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Article : 151 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Commenting on the rejection of the portraits of Dame Enid Lyons and Senator Dorothy Taneney. ...
Article : 112 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Japanese atrocities against Australian, troops might not have occurred had there been greater support for ...
Article : 93 wordsWILLIS G. Kelly, from North Carolina, who came to Australia in the U.S. Signal Corps in October, 1940, has come back "to look round" with a view to settling here. ...
Article : 256 wordsI agree with the liberal portion of Brisbane's population, which agrees that a Sunday picnic it good fun. To me it's mostly meat and ...
Article : 214 wordsA promise to inquire personally into the progress of Army discharges from Redbank while in Brisbane was made by the Army ...
Article : 72 wordsMELBOURNE. Sunday.—Results at the Ballarat South Street competitions include: Excerpt from light or comic opera: Douglas ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Mon 8 Oct 1945, Page 3
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