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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 04, 1920
Page
4
Advertisement calls for a manager with engineering expertise and thorough knowledge of sugar manufacture. Applicants must state desired salary and provide testimony of when they can commence. A demonstration on distributing carbon bisulphide to control grub pests in cane will be given on Tuesday the 7th.
The readable text mentions several scattered names and terms such as Siam, Fresh, Rag, Comarnaion, Exhorst, Ercan, Pree, Brown, Tet, Le and Tur See. The fragmentary nature prevents clear events or outcomes. No coherent narrative or date is discernible from the passage.
Racing details from North Queensland venues outline various handicap events including a 5 furlong dash and a 4 furlong sprint with second horses from prize lists. Officials, locations, and season dates are listed with entries from Charters Towers and surrounding towns.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions SEARLEY and HURTERSs with references to a detached house and pet removal. It is disjointed and contains multiple garbled terms, offering little coherent event or dates. No clear persons or organizations are reliably identified for a definitive summary.
Brisbane December market round notes heavy supply of prime chaff and mixed chaffs with bids seen at 7/2 and 10/ per hundredweights. New wheat chaff and oats quoted 6/3 to 6/1 and 8/3 to 10/TH respectively. Lucerne hay sold cheap yet farm oats and other grains show varied offers, with trade realities obscured by fragmented OCR.
Unclear report notes rain at Prearct Road disrupting a scheduled event, with partial unreadable names and phrases. Local responders advised caution as conditions affected activities and travel.
A Friday session of the Care Shire Council discussed the loading of sawn timber aboard the Wisteria steamer from No 2 to Norbert, with plans for auctioning a block of land, a partial note on the sale of property and a court remand. The report mentions inspections at Hop Wah, rail projects, and future auctions including a timber yard sale and other local developments.
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