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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 22, 1928
Page
2
A Cairns Post letter page features a collage of brief notes and greetings. Readers discuss poetry and good wishes to Rosemary, school reports, holiday letters from Cairns residents, and verses about friendship, pets, pen names, and newspaper readouts.
A playful tale narrates a child confessing to eating scones after misunderstanding a mother’s instruction. A kitchen mishap follows with a joke about washing fish, and a wandering man meets a Chinaman who replies with a pun about guessing distance.
A Babinda social event hosted by Mrs Siamond raised about £47 for Diener Day and featured competitions won by Mrs Jore geesen and Mrs J Taylor with consolation by Mrs Channel. An upcoming Thursday School of Arts function plans to support Mrs Pearsall's tea stall and invites all to attend.
Mixed recipes outline a fruit heavy bake and apple custard dish. Ingredients include flour suet sugar treacle cinnamon currants sultanas dates apples bread crumbs milk eggs and spices. Several methods cover stewing baking steaming and custard topping with cream or whipped cream.
A readable fragment from a historic page shows letters from KR Hone and Sunset Fairy inviting Rosemary to join a Home Circle and Cheerios Pond, signing with affectionate pen names and sending verses to a friend in Scarer.
The Bairns Circle sends birthday wishes to Rosemary with a playful note “Keep on keepin on” and a cheer from their Wild Flower line.
Fragmented dialogue recounts a mother and son asking about a visitor with hints of concern. The text shows misheard speech and missing context from a street scene or interview style. Names and clear events are unclear, leaving a vague interpersonal exchange.
First prize went to George Love of Woree State School at ten years old for a technically perfect chair. Dallas Dison, eight and a half, Ravensheed, claimed second with a Tiger Tim chair. Barco Meloni and Brova Piravar of Worer State School earned praise for their work but fell short of the top two. Prizes include certificates and forwarding shipments, with chairs exhibited at A J Pers window Abbott Street.
Myrtle reports Craig's Movies in Cairns screens a new moving picture of the town and wharf at 7.15 pm. Ethel plans to join after a doctor visit to pick up a prescription and see the show, meeting at Craig's Chemist opposite the Post Office.
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