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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 03, 1940
Page
2
The Health Institute claims a new natural healing method overseen by JF Trail offers vitality and life to hopeless patients. Treatments cited include electrical baths, electro vibratory massage, healing by colour, actinic baths, red light therapy, dietetics, curative exercises, and colon cleansing with heliotherapy.
December 1 report from Brisbane on Me H J Harvey’s presidential address to the Trades Union Congress. He condemned Soviet actions amid World War II, while opponents argued against Nazism and Fascism. The congress debated wartime policy, unemployment relief, and central trade union authority with tensions over civil liberties and wartime legislation.
Australian Associated Press reports from New York that the French premier is traveling to Berlin at Hitler’s request to discuss France joining a solid continental bloc. Observers expect no immediate shift in Petain’s stance, though Hitler may press on French war prisoners the Lorraine issue and the France situation as leverage. A Madrid message notes UK Ambassador Hoare and Spain’s Interior Minister Suner may influence Spain’s alignment.
Postal schedules detail varying mailbox dispatch times across Brisbane Inver-Siste Mumia Innisfail Townsville and Western Districts with daily and weekly slots. Services include Innisfail Mount Garnet Murray River towns Mackay Rockhampton Cooktown and Port Douglas among others.
Sydney woman Mra Hilda Kenworthy, an ambulance driver, received a commendation for diving into basements to rescue entombed people during a London blitz. She recounted guiding rescuers, treating the shocked, and continuing duty despite burns and danger, alongside stories of near-misses and acts of courage by colleagues and volunteers.
NZ announces compulsory war loan aimed at raising £8,000,000 to support the Dominion forces with repayment at par on October 1, 1953 and no interest until October 1, 1943. Subscriptions tied to income, with minimums based on prior earnings, and options to convert prior loans or gifts. Banks offer 3 percent advances for hardship, and national savings schemes provide fixed deposits and National Savings Bonds at 3 percent interest, maturing in five years.
Tuesday December 3 1Mo Mr A H Clarke broker Cairns Port quote quotations Australian gold shares and New Guinea gold shares listed for investment and trading.
Prince Bernhard visited Sir Kingsley Wood and delivered a cheque for £35000 subscribed by the people of Java to the Churchill Birthday Fund. The Chancellor conveyed the Prime Minister’s thanks and appreciation for this strong expression of Java’s support for the common cause.
War era policy yields lower interest, with Government bonds and banks driving the fall. From Sept 1939 to mid Nov 1940 the average return on Government securities dropped about one percent, aided by Treasury purchases, bank lending, and exchange controls. The gain reduces the interest burden for war debt, lowers industrial costs, and aids agriculture, while warnings persist on investor risk and long-term sacrifices.
Melbourne reports a body found in an old Sulko mining shaft last week is identified as 20 year old George Lind Davidson who vanished from his parents farm in February. Detectives plan to determine the cause of death within the next day.
Brisbane reports record low diphtheria cases amid city council and private immunisation drives. Dr Ralph Weaver notes 214 cases in 11 months versus 477 last year, with 5422 children immunised through November across City Hall and schools.
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