Innisfail Letter Details Land Access Costs and Reforms
The Land Department replies to Mr. G Duffy on the Aichee Creek lands conversion. It cites £7 420 17 11 spent to provide access, notes no other land benefited, and mentions official valuations. The Land Court will set prices for conversions from perpetual leases to freehold, with a promise to review if official values are too high. A resolution thanked Mr. Duffy for the information.
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Innisfail
McMiber
Eacham
Mr. G. Duffy
Fry
Land's Department
Trnmini
Aichee Creek
Department
Queens-tan
Allan Wylie's 21st Birthday Celebration At Holt Home
A large reception hosted by Mrs. PB Molz at the Holt residence honored Allan Wylie on attaining majority. Guests enjoyed dancing to Miss MM and Miss McCarthy, with two novelty dances, vocal items by Miss Doris Butler, and a three tiered birthday cake. Toasts to Allan, his family, Malcolm abroad, and the host couple were given, and Mr. Butler received thanks as chair.
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PB Molz
Georgette
W. Willis
McCarthy
Dales
Mortite Carlo Walt
Sally Charles
A. Besant
Miss Neary
P. Fro
Doris Butler Eee
C. Butler
Chas. Butler
Mr. Butler
Allan Wylie
Allan
Mr. Besant
Malcolm
Hongkong
Mr. Hyde
Mrs. Holt
Correction to pool figures in a Cairns editor’s note
A reader asks to correct a pool analysis published earlier. The letter explains the intended sentence should state that the present pool is 1/8 better than the old two pre-pool parity. The author requests publication of the correction from Tolga dated April 1.
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Fordson
Australia
Cairns
Preference to Britishers and Returned Soldiers in Sugar
A reader urges limiting foreign influence and boosting local opportunity in Australia. The letter argues for prioritizing Australians in the sugar industry and tobacco blocks near Mareeba, stressing support for eligible locals before foreign monopolies. The author signs as HANDICAPPED AUSTRALIAN, 23, requesting space for their view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairns Post
Mareeba
Upper Murray cane rights honored by British Preference League notice
E. E. Broughall president of the Upper Murray Primary Producers Association thanks the Cairns Post for continuing coverage of cane permit agitation in Upper Murray. He asserts locals pioneered the sugar mill push and protest permits for aliens land access, praising publicity as vital. Bilyana, QLD, April 20.
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Upper Murray
Tully
British Preference League
E. E. Broughall
Upper Murray Primaryoducers’ Association
Bilyana, N.C.L
Filthy Streets in Babinda Prompt Editor’s Call
A reader criticizes Babinda streets as filthy and littered with waste. He laments council inaction and contrasts state and shire regimes while urging residents to clean yards and streets themselves. The letter ends with a jab at local officials.
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Babinda
France
Shire Council
Mossman Licensing Court renews several hotel licenses
At Mossman Licensing Court presided by P M Cairns, renewals were granted for Mary Nash Mossman Hotel Elizabeth Thomson Queen's Hotel Helena Norah McKenna Exchange Hotel and Port Douglas renewals for Emily Grace Tully Court House Hotel Elizabeth Tait Central Hotel Mary Reay Exchange Hotel The Aldridge Royal Hotel and Dawson Post Office Hotel licenses were adjourned for a month The Post Office Hotel contract was awarded to J J Riley with plans for a larger concrete building replacing a former hotel destroyed by fire
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Mossman
Mossman Licensing Court
A. H. O'Kelly
P.M. Cairns
Mary Nash
Elizabeth Thomson
Queen's Hotel
Helena Norah McKenna
Exchange Hotel
Joseph Ernest Aldridge
Royal Hotel
James Robb Dawson
Post Office
Port Douglas
Emily Grace Tully
Court House
Elizabeth Tait
Central Hotel
Mary Reay
James Cobb
O'Kelly
J. J. Riley
Mossman Hospital
Foster's Red Label Special Export Lager Ad
An old advertisement promotes Foster's Red Label Special Export Lager as a bright sparkling health drink by Samuel Welch Allen & Sons in partnership with Agenta.
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Foster's
Samuel ‘ Wel Allen & Sons Amited
Agenta
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Jam P Jam
Hess
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Mumer
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Sugeri
Mederste
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MR. Duffy
Ml.a
D.R
Ireland & Daniel
Willys, Overland, Oakland
Pontiac
Nosworthy's
Queensland
Wharf-street
RINSO
Hudson
Turbon
Champton
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Nosworthy’s
Fordson Tractor
Lake St
Social
Mrs. Butler
Mrs. Hyde
Mrs. Cole
A. T. Anderson
Sullivan
Mrs. Dossette
Mrs. T. Short
Aegervoe
N. Neary
A. Townson
Wats Noris
E. Bowers
F. Neary
K. McGahan
V. Walker
D. Charles
V. Weston
D. Tyrell
P Tyrell
Lo Weston
D. Reddicliffe
M. Cartin
B. Carson
Mn G. Simpson
Hynes
Mig Thy
Miss Z. Hyde
Miss E. Hyde
Rence
Britis
Mossman Notes
G. Whiteside
A. H O'Shea
Cabasel
Wilson
A. W. Denford
G. Linn
Gield
Lady’s and Gent
Wweayy
Mackay’s
BUICK
G.M.A.C
L. Fitzsimmons
Lake Street
General Motor Dealers
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