A war correspondent on the Yugoslav frontier of the Belgrade newspaper "Politikas" states that the Greek advance forces have ...
Article : 219 wordsThe President of the Barre[?] Falls Hydro-Electricity Board (Mr. W. A. Collins) said at the [?]y meeting of the board last night ...
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Family Notices : 130 wordsThe Cairns Chamber of Commerce decided at its monthly meeting yesterday afternoon to make representations to the Federal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsAlthough most pay envelopes distributed in Australia this week will include only two or three days money earned in the New Year ...
Article : 195 wordsAlthough further severe restrictions on the importation of goods from non-sterling countries will be applied by the Federal Government from ...
Article : 172 wordsStorms in parts of the central districts and far south-west have yielded good falls of rain. In the Charleville district the Warrego, Langlo and Ward ...
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Advertising : 89 wordsTwo women and two boys were drowned in Dogwood Creek, 15 miles from Miles, late on Sunday afternoon when a small boat in which they were ...
Article : 198 wordsWhilst washing yesterday, Mrs. Curley, of Woree, had the misfortune to have a needle embedded in her left index finger. The Ambulance rendered ...
Article : 38 wordsThe German Club in Vulture-street, Woolloongabba will be taken over by the military on January 6 as an army physical and recreational training school. ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) will broadcast a New Year's message to-night (Tuesday) at 8.45 o'clock. He will speak over the ...
Article : 35 wordsAn R.A.F. communique says: "Despite extremely bad weather the R.A.F. successfully bombed shipping and set on fire shore objectives at Vlona ...
Article : 254 wordsThe waning of the year brings regrets. Also, it brings its compensations. If we look back with some chagrin and disappointment ...
Article : 800 wordsWeil's Disease is under control in the northern cane fields. Only six cases were notified to the State Health Department in the cutting season just ...
Article : 37 wordsGeorge James, a mill hand at Mourilyan, was struck by a bag of sugar yesterday, and sustained a confused wound to the right side of the head, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 wordsUnless rain falls soon further areas around Innisfail will be scarred by fires. Fresh outbreaks occurred yesterday on the coastal range between ...
Article : 41 wordsA few seconds after a big explosion blew the roof from the piano factory of John Smirnoff, of Marrickville, on Sunday night, a woman was seen ...
Article : 234 wordsAnother increase of 1d per lb. in the price of many grades of tea has been authorised by the Federal Prices Commissioner (Professor Copeland) ...
Article : 158 wordsYesterday permission was given to the Cairns Caledonian Society to hold a function in the Cairns Masonic Club until 11 p.m. on New Year's Eve. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsA communique stated: "To-day there was restricted patrol and artillery activity." A Government spokesman announced that the Greeks captured ...
Article : 65 wordsOwners of stock who took the liberty of setting their stock free to roam the streets of Cairns during the Christmas holidays found it a costly venture. ...
Article : 73 words"The Times" Athens correspondent states that the new successes, which the Greek communiques modestly disclaim as "local operations," have in the ...
Article : 103 words"This class of offence is increasing again," said Inspector J. Smith in the Police Court to-day prosecuting two men on separate charges of having ...
Article : 134 wordsYesterday afternoon the police telephoned the fire station advising that a house on the South Johnstone road, and situated about a mile from the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 240 wordsA 150-mile trip down the Nymboida and Clarence rivers from Nymboida to Grafton, in a frail 16ft. folding canvas canoe, was began on Saturday by ...
Article : 159 wordsAlthough the lantana bug is continuing to do good work in defoliaging and otherwise destroying clusters of lantana in the districts around ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the Summons Court yesterday the Acting Police Magistrate (Mr. A. Anderson) gave his decision in the case in which Vincenzo Gagliano, of ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. Theodore Sizer, director of the Tale Art Gallery, has left for Australia to arrange for an exhibit of Austrian and New Zealand art objects ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Minister for Public Works (Mr. H. A. Bruce) advises that plans, specifications and estimates for work on the Peeramon-Boonjie-Malanda road, in the ...
Article : 93 wordsA small force of R.A.F. bombers attacked objectives in Germany last night, also invasion ports. Two British machines are missing. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Saudi-Arabian Legation, in a communique to the Arab Press, states it learned from Mecca that a plot was discovered against King Ibn Saud and his ...
Article : 53 wordsThe pilot of a training plane from the R.A.A.F. 6th elementary flying training school at Tamworth had a lucky escape when his machine crashed into ...
Article : 166 words"What was a young fellow like you doing jumping a train?" asked Mr. C. Burchill, P.M., in the Innisfail Police Court on Monday morning, when ...
Article : 144 wordsTwo heavy, bomb-like explosions in the baggage-room of the Anhalter Station set fire to the western portion of the station. All rail traffic inwards and ...
Article : 37 wordsTravelling time between Brisbane and London will be reduced to 18 days when the Empire air mail service is diverted to the new route through ...
Article : 57 wordsA Hudson bomber named the "Spirit of Lockheed and Vega" has just arrived in Britain. It has come fr[?] America. This machine, presented by ...
Article : 76 wordsE. Brown, Pembroke-street, an employee of the Railway Department, received a lacerated wound to the first finger of the left hand when he cut it ...
Article : 49 wordsArms works, the men who make the guns, the tanks and the shells, the men who, 24 hours in each day, make Britain mightier.— Commonwealth Department of Information photo. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsFalling down in the kitchen and cutting her forehead on a broken plate, Mrs. O'Leary, of Palm-avenue, had to seek Ambulance attention for ...
Article : 42 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Barron Falls Hydro Electricity Board last night the President (Mr. W. A. Collins) said that at the last meeting ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 wordsDuring the present school vacation a warning has been issued to children in the Innisfail district when rambling in the scrubs to beware of the deadly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsA girl aged two years, living at Chermside, was reported to the State Health Authorities to-day to be suffering from infantile paralysis. Forty-three [?] have ...
Article : 55 wordsThe following State forecast was issued in Brisbane at 5 p.m. yesterday for the ensuing 24 hours: Mainly fine day, but more or less cloudy and sultry, ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Tue 31 Dec 1940, Page 4
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