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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Apr 27, 1929
Page
13
A lively sale listing Ladies Velour Winter Coat with deep collar fur and button options, felt hats with medium brim and satin ornament, girls knit Wool products in mustard shade with brown collar, cream and grey plannelette petticoats with frill at foot and waist tape, all offered at bargain drive prices.
Mixed textile goods and ladies accessories advertised with bargain drive prices. Items include pure silk hose, hand embroidered corners, ladies sunshades, and mercerised chamfered fawn fabrics with prices shown as fractions and decimals.
Readable items include red and green striped verandah ticking at 2/11 yard and jute bedside rugs. Also marone all wool art shoe fabric at 1/6-40 inch muslin for curtains in cream and white grounds with rich sorat pattern. Bargain drive price applies to both wares.
Men s Department offers cashmerette fajana trousers in full, roomy sizes to 0.5. Bargain shirts with collar, pockets, and drill styles priced around 6/16 each. Gourring and white mercerised tennis shirts offered in sizes 14 to 17 at drive prices 4/11 each.
Week End Footwear Specials lists ladies lace sandals in sizes four and five, ankle strap sandals for tournaments, white Kid One Bar shoes with medium heels, patent lace pairs, and tan calf shore styles. Prices shown include 26/3 and 26/11, with a bargain drive emphasis on sale items.
Dressed and silks offer four new small Black and White Sheppards Checks in very good quality. Morning frocks and imams sells drive demand. Bargain drive price per yard 2/4. Extra fine pure wool velour in three new brown and navy shades. Colored linette in green tangerine terra cotta at 4/4. Wool flannel 8/11 inch checks yard 7/6. Improved cash and carry grocery section with low prices.
An analysis notes a Commonwealth move to create a £100,000 mineral oil trust and a large reward for payable oil, while arguing sugar surplus should fuel domestic alcohol production. It compares costs, cites sugar industry plants, and warns national dependence on imported liquid fuel could paralyze transport and agriculture.
A writer argues for developing a national industry to supply Astra with liquid fuel, suggesting cooperation with the sugar and power alcohol sectors in American territory. The piece notes abundant oil fields abroad and urges similar efforts in the Commonwealth where local oil districts have not yet demonstrated liquid fuel production.
The Australian War Memorial was formally inaugurated on Anzac Day with Governor General Lord Stonehaven unveiling a commemorative stone. The memorial preserves names only on a wall, honoring Australians who fell in the Great War, and forms from Parliament 1925 a national repository of records, relics, and an honor roll. Public exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney drew hundreds of thousands to view the collection.
Four aeroplanes, cows, sheep, and a figure in the stores taken by Commander Byrd on his Arctic expedition. To the northeast fisheries, fish worth £1,6500.00 were caught last quarter, a scene of £121,000 compared with.
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