Gair founded a paper empire and occupied several buildings in the area, many of which still bear his name.

In July of that year, members of the AWU executive met Gair.

Save for this blow, he would probably have become Labor leader in Queensland, given that Premier Vince Gair and most of Gair's followers had been expelled from the party.

This would later deprive Gair of a potential source of support within the party organisation.

Gair announced in 1955 that although the state's finances did not permit the extension of annual leave, the government would extend entitlements to long service leave.

After private discussions it was revealed that Gair would introduce the leave sometime over the course of the year.

After the election, however, State Treasurer Ted Walsh revealed that Queensland's budget was in deficit and Gair claimed that extending leave would be financially irresponsible.

For its part, the QCE did not believe that Gair would take many of his caucus with him.

In Canberra, a group of Country Party Senators kept Gair occupied in their office, away from the President of the Senate ( to whom he needed to give his resignation ), drinking beer and eating prawns, until 6pm ( the Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that writs would be deemed to have been issued at 6pm irrespective of the time that they were actually issued ).

Hanlon died on 15 January 1952 and Gair, having been acting premier since the previous August, was elected by the ALP Caucus to succeed him on 17 January.

Gair subsequently became disillusioned with the DLP's other senators, who forced him to resign as leader in October 1973.

On 26 March, Gair, Birch, and party whip Don McKinnon presented McLay with a letter signed by a majority of MPs asking him to step aside.

The Scottish-born Robert Gair invented the pre-cut paperboard box in 1890 – flat pieces manufactured in bulk that folded into boxes.

Gair discovered that by cutting and creasing in one operation he could make prefabricated paperboard boxes.

Robert Gair invented the folding carton in 1890.

Brooklynite Robert Gair was a printer and paper bag maker in the 1870s.

Gair found that by cutting and creasing paperboard in one operation, he could make prefabricated cartons.

Vincent Clare " Vince " Gair ( 25 February 190111 November 1980 ) was an Australian politician.

Gair was born in Rockhampton to a Scottish father and an Irish mother, and was raised a Catholic.

Gair worked at consolidating his hold on the marginal electorate, at which he was largely successful except in the 1938 election, when a newly-formed Protestant Labor Party targeted his seat.

Gair was a backbencher for ten years during the William Forgan Smith government before being appointed as Secretary for Mines under the elderly Frank Cooper in 1942.

Gair had not previously held office in a trade union.

The Industrial Groups ( whose members were known as Groupers ) were supported by Gair, who hoped to use them to cement his personal power base within the party's organisational wing, as well as by union leader Joe Bukowski and the AWU.

Under Gair ’ s premiership, reforms were carried out in worker ’ s compensation, sick leave, and annual leave.

Gair came into conflict with Bukowski when the AWU in 1955 began making allegations that there was corruption in the process of granting and extending pastoral leases in the state.

According to an account they gave later, Gair promised them an inquiry, although Gair denied ever having promised any such thing.

Bukowski publicly expressed a desire to appear before the Bar of Parliament to detail his allegations, in which he was supported by Frank Nicklin, then leader of the Opposition ; but Gair defeated his motion in parliament.

Gair immediately set up a royal commission, which resulted in the laying of criminal charges against Lands Minister Tom Foley.

Vince Gair inspecting the Wunderlich Tile factory at Northgate, May 1952.

Gair discovered that the AWU had gained its information about the scandal from a senior public official, Vivian Creighton.

Gair pressed for Creighton's resignation on the grounds of official misconduct.

He found nothing, but he still refused to give up and move out.

President Kennedy, already two quiet demands down, still refused Thursday to be drawn into delivering a public ultimatum to Moscow.

You should make any request for an extension early so that if it is refused, your return may still be on time.

Finally, he was cooking, washing dishes, bathing the children, and even ironing -- and still his wife refused to have relations as often as he desired them.

Baldwin III died on 10 February 1163 and the kingdom passed to Amalric, although there was some opposition among the nobility to Agnes ; they were willing to accept the marriage in 1157 when Baldwin III was still capable of siring an heir, but now the Haute Cour refused to endorse Amalric as king unless his marriage to Agnes was annulled.

Japan still imposes the death penalty, although some recent justice ministers have refused to sign death warrants, citing their Buddhist beliefs as their reason.

The Coptic Orthodox Church refused to recognize the election and enthronement of Abuna Takla Haymanot on the grounds that the Synod of the Ethiopian Church had not removed Abuna Theophilos, and that the Ethiopian government had not publicly acknowledged his death, and he was thus still legitimate Patriarch of Ethiopia.

The French King refused to lead the crusade himself, nor could he spare his son — despite his victory against John of England, there were still pressing issues with Flanders and the empire and the threat of an Angevin revival.

Augustin Louis Cauchy refereed these papers, but refused to accept them for publication for reasons that still remain unclear.

Kaiser Permanente did not change its methods of evaluating whether or not new therapies were too " experimental " to be covered until it was successfully sued twice: once for delaying in vitro fertilization treatments for two years after the courts determined that scientific evidence of efficacy and safety had reached the " reasonable " stage ; and in another case where Kaiser refused to pay for liver transplantation in infants when it had already been shown to be effective in adults, on the basis that use in infants was still " experimental.

Galileo steadfastly refused to use Marius ' names and invented as a result the numbering scheme that is still used nowadays, in parallel with proper moon names.

Fabius closely followed Hannibal ’ s path of destruction, yet still refused to let himself be drawn out of the defensive.

However, not everyone converted to Islam at that period as some still refused to accept it.

When John still refused to come, Philip declared John in breach of his feudal responsibilities, reassigned all of John's lands that fell under the French crown to Arthur – with the exception of Normandy, which he took back for himself – and began a fresh war against John.

On August 28, the FBI New York field office requested that a criminal case be opened to determine whether Mihdhar was still in the United States, but the request was refused.

* The British in Freetown intercepted this message but, believing it might be a ruse de guerre, refused to credit it, yet still passed it on to the U. S. The Allies had gone to much effort to establish an airfield on Ascension as a link in their only air route between the United States and the Desert War in Egypt.

Nonetheless, by joining the university's Philosophy and Journalism Societies, he was able to attend various lectures and seminars by the likes of Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, and Qian Xuantong, but various lecturers still treated him with contempt and refused to answer his questions.

The team MVP that season was Joe Kapp, who threw for seven touchdowns against the Baltimore Colts – still an all-time NFL record ; however, Kapp refused to accept the award, stating, " There is not one most valuable Viking ... there are 40 most valuable Vikings!

A center of such " unverified " Masurians was the district of Mragowo ( Sensburg ), where in early 1946 out of 28, 280 persons 20, 580 were " unverified ", while in October 16, 385 still refused to adopt Polish citizenship.

Dissenters were Protestants who refused to follow the rules of the Church of England after the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, and when Newton settled in Olney the village still supported two Dissenting chapels.

Many defendants charged with capital offences nonetheless refused to plead, since thereby they would escape forfeiture of property, and their heirs would still inherit their estate ; but if the defendant pleaded guilty and was executed, their heirs would inherit nothing, their property escheating to the Crown.

He refused to attend, still angry over the loss of the towns of Aire and Saint-Omer which had been captured by Philip's son, Louis the Lion, and he would not participate in any campaign until they had been restored to him.

It is believed that there was £ 532 million available to Railtrack comprising £ 370 million in the bank and £ 162 million of an existing Department of Transport loan facility still available to be drawn down, but Stephen Byers MP refused to allow this, causing shareholders to believe that he had broken the loan agreement.

Meyer refused to remove key scenes ( such as the " lady in the bathtub " near the film's end ), but reportedly some 8½ minutes of excised footage still exist, significantly more graphic.

Virginia's 23 electors, who were pledged to Van Buren and Johnson, refused to vote for Johnson ( but still voted for Van Buren ).