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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Apr 26, 1946
Page
2
A garbled clipping blends poultry ads with sale notices and stray names. It mentions roosters bantams and pullets for sale, plus various supplier names and scattered product lines, creating a chaotic snapshot of classified requests and farm items.
A fragmented OCR page shows Heber and Ban Borde hospital board notices advertising positions for coordinators and assistants, with references to secretaries and tenures. The text also includes various employment ads for hotels, stores, and trades, plus a local shire election notice and unrelated supplier solicitations.
Last and found note mentions a missing item near Ghillagoe and Phillagwe with a Port Office reward. The terse OCR reads as a public docket brief asking for return of an object and offering a reward. Names and precise locations are unclear due to garbled text.
Local notice touts Kuranda motel with superior accommodation and running water in all bedrooms. Special rates for children announced. bookings via phone number 2 Kurands.
The text lists a large, scattered group of Cairns and Kuranda residents and visitors, including Mr and Mrs King, Mr and Mrs Carmody, Mr and Mrs Lawson, Mrs O Beigne, Mr Norman, Mr Norman, and many others, visiting Kuranda for holidays and social gatherings. It mentions families staying with hosts, church and school-related remarks, and multiple acknowledgments of guests and relatives from Cairns and Mareeba.
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