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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 01, 1921
Page
4
Relatives of the late Mr Thomas Hell extend thanks and sadness to friends for their kind tributes and moral support during the bereavement. Messages of sympathy are acknowledged by Mrs G W Brows and others as the family notes with gratitude for the community’s kindness.
A garbled OCR segment shows scattered names including Mendames Dr, Boyle, Walte, Bown Beets, Liesche, Thoms Fes, and others. Two children Bares and Miaves FF appear among uncertain references, with several surnames and initials suggesting a fragmented public notice or obituary fragment from a local page.
Commercial buyers were quiet as auctions opened with dull demand. Prices edged lower for wool and livestock while higher bids appeared for certain fats and prime tallow. Overall activity was subdued with limited bidding and stable to soft price trends.
Notice lists candidates for mayor and nine aldermen in Cairns Town. It records July 2 elections and names several contenders including Hoare Woodward Draper Gelling and others as returning officers prepare for official results.
The article critiques government retrenchment efforts aimed at railways, noting paid offs and absences without pay, while unions resist. It argues political missteps before elections damaged confidence in the London money market and calls for a clearer policy to boost private enterprise and employment.
Fragmentary OCR shows a heading or notice titled Lists of Application Tep 61 with scattered names and the partial contact phrase Cairns Phone 137. The readable text provides no clear event or outcome. Further context is needed to determine the notice scope or entity roles.
The Cairns Harbor Board elected three representatives including William Gelling Edward Campbell Hal and Ernest John Lyon. The returning officer Wilkinson announced the seven member slate and the vote count. A church funeral and local entertainment events were reported alongside transport and street incidents.
The page records multiple auction notices including Mrs Cates furniture at a premises on Sheridan Street and other items to be sold in Innisfail and Tiwa. It also notes a fire damaged four cylinder car salvage. Additionally a hospital transfer details a patient admitted to Cairns District Hospital for treatment after a football match collision.
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