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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 28, 1943
Page
2
A German agency note from August 3 reports Ming Boris has been ill for three days. The dispatch mentions the king is unwell but provides no details on diagnosis or prognosis.
NSW faces wartime rabbit trapping strain with thousands working in gullies to evade officers. Rabbit skins flood auctions in Sydney with 108 tons sold last week, far above last year’s 39 tons, and overall 172 tons marketed this season amid high prices and shortages.
Flight Officer Sutherland, a domestic science teacher in low Sutherland, earns the Pilots certificate in South Australia and shares carpentry guidance at the WAAAT barracks. She can now fashion sandals in one evening using chisel hammer and spoked tools. She balances kitchen bench work with carpentry and crafts inlaid tables and auto trays as part of her training.
In Broome, the Feast of Lanterns amid wartime desolation blends ritual with loss as quiet streets hide wrecked planes, abandoned shacks, and buried refugees. Bombed shores and scorched gardens replace color with ash while lanterns and memories try to endure.
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