One of the higgest drafts of Air Force recruits to leave a provincial city will be the contingent of at least 62 men who will depart ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 480 wordsOfficial circles treat with the greatest reserve the unconnrmed report of a Russian ultimatum to Turkey demanding control of the ...
Article : 527 wordsThe effect of petrol rationing throughout Australia was discussed to-day by the State Premiers, who are meeting to confer on war ...
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Family Notices : 213 wordsIn co-operation with representatives of the Army Department, officers of the Department of the Interior are seeking suitable camp sites for enemy ...
Article : 136 wordsAs part of the plan, to raise the Australian home defence forces to 250,000 men, new age groups have been fixed for national service. They ...
Article : 170 wordsGenerally, the petrol rationing scale was received in Brisbane with a realisation of its necessity. Mr. N. Harper (President of the Chamber ...
Article : 65 wordsAn inquiry into the operation of the imports licensing system introduced at the beginning of December to prevent the importation of non-essentials from ...
Article : 201 wordsThe reception of overseas broadcasts, except from British or Empire stations, is forbidden in any public place in Australia. Announcing this to-day, the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe secretary of the Motor Traders' Association of N.S.W. (Mi. H.. Jones) said that it was significant that neither the oil importers, the motor ...
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Advertising : 69 words"The total loss of cane from grub damage for the 1940 season is expected to exceed 5500 tons, the heaviest recorded since 1929," said Mr. K. W. ...
Article : 952 wordsAlthough Turkey recently announced her intention to invoke the protocol of her agreement with Britain and France dealing ...
Article : 850 wordsThe Minister for Supply (Sir Frederick Stewart) stated to-night that it was incorrect to suggest that petrol rationing will be introduced ultimately ...
Article : 197 wordsA.I.F. recruits summoned to appear before the Medical Board at 2 o'clock to-day may, if they so desire, be examined and attested at 9 o'clock this ...
Article : 30 wordsCharged by a wild pig whilst out shooting, on Saturday, Norman Bomditch, a 15-year-old youth, dropped his rifle, which exploded, the bullet shattering the ...
Article : 195 wordsThe North Queensland Employers' Association announces that the premises of the wholesale and retail merchants will be closed from. 1 p.m. on ...
Article : 40 wordsA special welfare branch will be established to look after the interests of Australia's growing army of munition workers. Announcing this last ...
Article : 157 wordsThere was a fairly brisk demand for the moderate supplies of potatoes at Roma-street to-day, and the values were steady. The market was topped at 12/1. ...
Article : 116 wordsIn connection with a paragraph in "The Cairns Post" yesterday, in which it was stated that there was a shortage of plasterers in Cairns, the Far ...
Article : 69 wordsBoundaries: Commencing at the corner of Smith and Lake streets, thence along Smith-street by the right to the swamp west of the railway line, ...
Article : 318 wordsThe weather forecast for Qneensland issued at 5 p.m. yesterday for the ensuing 24 hours is: Fine and cold nights. Farther frosts in the central ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsA modification of the petrol rationing scheme seems to be certain. The Federal Cabinet may consider next week an alternative plan already ...
Article : 68 wordsCairns Ambulance bearers visited Hambledon, where they treated Peter Wallwork (15) for a large laceration to the left leg, abrasions to both knees and ...
Article : 57 wordsMore important extensions to cost in all over £200,000 have been approved for the Amberley Air Force station, stated the Minister for the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe New Zealand Minister of Supply, Railways, Industry and Commerce (Mr. D. Sullivan) reached Brisbane from Sydney yesterday for vital trade talks ...
Article : 189 wordsApplications are now being taken at the Cairns resulting office. Lake-street, from persons wishing to enlist in the volunteer forced for home ...
Article : 84 wordsIt is believed that a loss of up to £3,000,000 or 30 pet cent. on the normal revenue from the petrol tax, will be the probable result of the ...
Article : 155 wordsThe managers of large dairy factories and a representative of the Butter Board will be invited by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. F. W. Bulcock) late this ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Industrial Magistrate (Mr. R. C. Grenier) yesterday reserved his decision is the appeal by Jane Penhallurick, of Gordonvale, against the ...
Article : 80 words"The Times" Bucharest correspondent says that Rumania's axis-inspired policy of curbing British interests is now extended to British shipping on ...
Article : 157 wordsThe draft of 28 A.I.F. recruits which left Cairns yesterday included recruits from the militia and men who had had previous service overseas, one of whom ...
Article : 50 wordsIndications are that N.S.W. Trades and Labour Council will support the union defence panel established by the Federal Government. A meeting of ...
Article : 59 wordsPlans for according a vote at the Federal elections to Australians serving in the defence forces overseas have been completed by the Minister for the ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Cairns sittings of the Circuit Court will commence on Tuesday. In the criminal sittings two cases will probably be heard. Spider, Tommy ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. R. H. Allen, P.M., yesterday morning when charging. Henry Taylor with using obscene language declined to read out the words. Defendant was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 wordsWhen his right hand was caught in a planing machine yesterday Peter Romano. sawmiller. sustained lacerations, also a fractured second finger. He ...
Article : 77 wordsYesterday morning the bogey of an H waggon in a goods train ran off the line near Petford, on the MareebaAlmaden line, but the line was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 18 wordsBrisbane and Inter-State: Monday. Wednesday and friday. 9 a.m., Tuesday. Thursday, and Saturday. 5 a.m South beyond Innisfail and Townsville ...
Article : 256 wordsIn the Police Court yesterday, John David Shepherd (17) was charged that on July 10, at Townsville, he broke and entered the counting house of the North ...
Article : 103 wordsIn the House of Commons the Secretary for India (Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery) said Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the Left Wing in the All-India ...
Article : 72 wordsA decree provides that names of all foreign Shareholders of oil companies, with dates and places of purchase of shares, must be registered, with the ...
Article : 119 wordsNo leave of absence will be granted by the Railway Department to workshops employees who join the Royal Australian Air Force. This has been made ...
Article : 175 wordsThe British engineering, firm of Sir Alexander Gibb and partners has been requested by the Federal Ministry to become the consulting engineers to the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe rush to buy binoculars for presentation to the A.I.F. has been so great in Brisbane that it is doubtful if pawnbrokers have more than half a dozen ...
Article : 51 wordswhen a blood transfusion was successfully performed at the Cairns District Hospital yesterday afternoon, the donor was Mr. John Young, of ...
Article : 135 wordsTwo men were taken into custody in the D'Agullar Ranges this afternoon, and were later charged at Woodford with stealing £[?]000 belonging to Jona ...
Article : 50 wordsThe United States Ambessador in France (Mr. W. C. Bullitt) and 116 members of the American diplomatic corps from Belgium, Holland, ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Sat 13 Jul 1940, Page 4
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