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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 30, 1912
Page
4
Town chatter shows visitors and social plans with names like Miss Richards and Mrs Josephs arriving from Sydney and departing for Perramon. Advertisements promote beauty powders and household goods from stores such as Curry Powder and Baking Powder brands, with chemist notes by Robert Craig and Kelly.
Fragmentary OCR passage mentions groceries and purchases but lacks clear events, dates, or identifiable entities. Unable to determine a coherent news item or outcome from the readable material.
Fragmentary text mentions a yearly event and a three month period with references to a manali and a decemnet's wile. The readable pieces imply an annual gathering, possible policy or schedule note, but missing clear facts. Entities are unclear due to garbled OCR.
A fragmented OCR line hints at a family message about a mover and a painful condition. The text references a person possibly named Gould and notes distress or pain. The cadence resembles a diaristic or poetic plea within a domestic notice.
The Broken Hill Proprietary Co and the Government agreed to establish iron works at Newcastle. They will lease land, resume unused railway, dredge to reclaim land, and allow a wharf building. The company will pay rent and cover government works costs.
A long OCR fragment lists numerous personal names including Shambrook Moon Smith Ross Howe Mises Paul Syend Swain McKeeman Fox Cook Reynolds Dinsdale Stevens Mesars and many others, followed by phrases mentioning captains and passengers. It also references Kuranda Townsville and steerage travelers with many unclassifiable terms and broken phrases.
The government accepted J. Munro’s tender of £407 12 11 for police improvements at Hughenden. A 20 acre area at Mirant is added to Pioneer Shire lands under council control. Transfers include Edward J. Dunnigan to HLT Blackbull and A. Gregor to A.T Ravenswood. Hawkins Creek High School approved. Theo Dillon named Wages Board chair for the Nor thern sawmilling division.
The lineup lists E. Lawrence at three quarters as the stand out player for Kid Ora's, with the squad prepared to compete against Iva on Saturday Baxt.
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