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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Apr 07, 1945
Page
8
A scanned page shows a flood of sale notices and wanted ads. Listings include large items, cars, farm machinery, tools, and household goods with prices and contact hints mixed with job offers and services. The jumble mentions Dodge and Ford vehicles, generators, plows, furniture, and various appliances. Numerous names, locations, and prices appear amid ad copy and classifieds fragments.
Notice warns that George McFarlane and others near Biayana will hold artillery and machine gun firing at Clip Point on April 20. The event is part of Airway Operations and will occur in a danger area two miles from the nearest police location. Public cautioned to avoid the area during practice and to heed warnings.
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AAP dispatch reports Cadman Press Service noting that home defence units have significant absence and redeployment. Since last November 708 personnel went AWOL, 2918 rounded up, and 18298 troops volunteered. 2918 received training overseas and rifles were broadcast abroad. Costs of home defence rise with November figures.
Fragmented report notes capture of hazardous device sites by Canadian forces and damage to a Dutch area. It mentions Allied actions, interwoven with garbled text describing searches, depots, and German defenses, implying wartime operations and intelligence interception in a broad combat theater.
Ancil-Suegnaland poultrymen suffer severe feed rationing with 1001 birds at risk of being killed if no relief arrives. Some farmers have trucked in wheat from New South Wales while Queensland lacks ration provisions. Many servicemen are affected as poultry markets falter and businesses risk closure. The Queensland Poultry Farmers' Cooperative reports disrupted deliveries and rising losses as shortages bite.
Fragmentary OCR text references home rate gratuity and exclusions, a Japanese air raid era observation, and a War Crimes Committee discussion. Mentions Mt Darwin garrison, a date around 29 4, and regulatory attendance. Content is garbled and lacks coherent events or names.
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