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Newspaper
Bowen Independent
Location
Bowen, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 01, 1950
Page
2
The meeting records tense debate over current public works projects. Concerns focus on wage costs and contractor availability as crews struggle to meet schedules. The council weighs budget limits and potential overtime to accelerate progress.
In a Whitsunday MLA speech Mir Lloyd Bayletta discusses brick scarcity due to a decade-long halt in production. The piece details pricing proposals by Wing Phill brickworks syndicate and the Prices Commissioner, with aims to secure supplies amid rising costs for South Queensland builders and a lingering bottleneck on the Pind brick line.
Pacific theatres present Glen Ford and Terry Moore in The Return of Oktober and To the Victor at the Grand. The program includes a newsreel and cartoon with Desperate, a crime drama, and a Western entry. Screenings run Tuesday and Saturday with a live audience draw and feature cast details in the notices.
William Wilken age 24 faced charges for breaking into the Department of Agriculture office and stealing a typewriter valued at £10. He received 1 month in jail with 12 months probation and was ordered to repay the typewriter value. Conlon, 24, pleaded guilty to burglary with a fine and later sentenced to 12 months hard labor. The cases were heard by Mr Justice H. W. J. Douglas in Townsville.
A garbled report from Mackay describes plans and concerns over a port for tourists at Hayman and related supply and embarkation points. It notes freight and hotel staff positions, potential changes to routes via Townsville and Prokerpine, and statements attributed to hotel management and local officials.
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