In the Cairns Police Court yesterday evidence was heard in the charge against Frank Carro, articled law clerk, that on ...
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Family Notices : 230 wordsA Bill to increue old age and invalid pensions to £1/1/—the last of the Budget measures—was introduced in the House of ...
Article : 694 wordsMr. R. Leggatt, organiser of the Amalgamated Engineers' Union, asked the Industrial Court to-day for an increase in rates of pay to the ...
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Advertising : 83 wordsThe thermometer at the Cairns Post Office yesterday recorded the following figures: Maximum 88.4, minimum 74.8 degrees. The comparative ...
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Article : 55 wordsHardly more than passing in terest was aroused some time ago in what, as thought again and again recurs to it, seems to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsNominations are invited of persons eligible and willing to contest the Tableland Electorate in the interests of the Australian Labour Party at the ...
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Article : 88 wordsBroken Hill Proprietary Ltd. who has been testing various extensive areas in the Mt. Garnet district daring the last two years and ten months as to their ...
Article : 207 wordsGordonvale water consumers are notified that the Water Authority has prohibited the use of sprinklers, fixed hoses, or other mechanical appliances ...
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Article : 269 wordsBefore the Senate went into recess late this afternoon, Senator C. H. Brand (U.A.P., Vic.) told the House that he had been assured by the Labour leader ...
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Article : 69 wordsIn a letter to the secretary of the Cairns Harbour Board (Mr. J. Wyer), the Queensland Aeent-General in London (Mr. L. H. Pike) notifies the ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. T. V. Soong, former Minister for Finance, who is at present in the United States, is expected in well-informed quarters here to visit London shortly in order ...
Article : 84 wordsA searching inquiry conducted in the first place by a special naval tribunal and later by the Marine Court of Inquiry will be held into the fire which ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 wordsFarther reports from Egypt confirm the confusion brought about by the action of the Air Force against the retreating Italians. ...
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Article : 61 wordsThe manager of the Tully Co-operative Sugar Milling Association Ltd (Mr. S. B. Best) advises that the following analysis of district yields of ...
Article : 150 wordsMiss Jean Marie Hides, eldest danghter of Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Hides, of Atherton, passed away this morning after a short illness at the age of 28 ...
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Article : 48 wordsLeonard Sterling, alias Walter Keyworth, who was, captured after his escape from Palen Creek prison farm, was sentenced to 12 months in the ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Sat 14 Dec 1940, Page 4
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