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Newspaper
Brisbane Courier Mail
Location
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 17, 1940
Page
4
Vague note outlines coin use and registered post delivery for contest entries. Mentions The Courier-Mail vestibule and entry deadlines, with references to third prize, consolation prize, and a form to be published. Details are garbled but indicate a postal submission process with deadlines.
A fragmented page lists various radio shows and program notes with names, times, and performers. Mentions include markets music sessions, a tenor hall event, bands, professors, and multiple station references, all obscured by OCR errors and partial phrases.
The Industrial Court in Brisbane considers raised allowances for cash order and time payment collectors, retail travelers, wireless salesmen, and messenger boys. Anton Rusling seeks weekly 10 for bicycle or horse, 9 10 for a car, and 3 17 6 for country use, with colleagues proposing mileage based pay and broader increases.
Norman Putt, 37, engineer, charged in Police Court with theft of a cheque on or about April 1. The case names Stanley Abraham and Norman Putt as parties, stating the property belonged to AP Motors and related details. Trial set for a later date.
Probate has been granted of the will in the case involving Patrick James Heenan of Conondale and Stanley Thornton of Manly. Details reference realty and personalities in the proceedings, with sums noted and deductions mentioned.
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