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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 07, 1922
Page
4
Listing includes Lanje White and Gata China sets Tea ware wine and saucers in white plus pattern names. Includes Lambenmare dinnerware, partial plates, breakfast cups and saucers. Prices and exact items not fully clear but shown in sale notes.
Readable lines show a list of glassware and kitchen items with prices and quantities. Items include tumblers with covers, sugar stand, butter dish sets, tall glasses, and jelly dishes. The text resembles a handwritten sale catalog or barter note with uncertain pricing and unclear dates.
Retail flyer urges shoppers to visit over four days and notes two days may sell out. emphasizes limited stock and urgency to buy before items vanish.
A garbled note thanks Dra Jamieson and the Matron and Nurses of a district hospital for their kindness to the writer and family. The message mentions a niece Florrie Collins and a life well lived, signed by Alice Blucher and others. Includes unrelated notices about fencing, watches, sale of firewood, and solicitors in Cairns and Townsville.
Mails close to day for the following dominion places including Cooktown Fe Bayan Mosjun Herberton and Chilagoe with post times around 30pm. The notice cites London conger rates and American electric rates in a clipped, fragmented telegraph style. Memorial notices recall Geo Tastie Les Westcott and Frederick William We, with family messages from Michael Joseph Martower Willie Tats and Ellen.
A garbled diary of ship movements lists departures and arrivals from London Melbourne Cairns Sydney and Newcastle with dates in December. Entries note vessels such as The Waipare The Triguan The Pelding Heaven and The Ceduna and ports including Cairns Sydney and Maryborough.
Fragmentary OCR reads as a local notice dated for one day, mentioning Beelee weesew woods and surrounding area. No clear action, deadline, or authority is discernible.
A garbled OCR passage discusses extremism and socialist factions in a reform struggle. It references individuals such as Mr. Percy Pease and Theodore, notes tension between reformers and radical currents, and hints at a public address or meeting with unclear date and place.
A Cairns letter attacks Labor governance as rotten and promises to unseat the party at December elections, voiced by W. A. Williams. The page also lists timetables, auctions, and notices including furniture sales, mail service changes, and entertainment events in Mareeba and Cairns.
The Mareeba correspondent reports late December to January holidays with shop hours, festive goods lists, and the Mareeba Cotton Committee’s urging to visit the district in January. Also notes a Crimean veteran’s passing, local concert band arrangements, and a railway workers’ band secretary election and Christmas fund drive.
Readable fragments show Gordaneale State School pupils seated with certihestes as they compete in a twenty event meet. The text notes an unbeaten champion from 19em 217 and lists numerous participants by name, event, and placement in an athletics-style school championship.
Dawson Valley growers and civic leaders discussed extending prices for ratoon cotton at a December meeting. They heard that the government intends to maintain its stated policy and may consider advances on delivery through ginneries, with relief for distressed growers and a possible price adjustment mechanism.
Soviet trade envoy G M Krassin unexpectedly lands in Rome to confer with Signor Miranliol about bending trade relations and forming a committee to oversee economic and commercial actions between the Soviet Union and Italy. The talks also reference wartime-style exchanges and potential collaboration.
Gerald Bevan found guilty after a long trial of publishing a false balance with City Equitable Fire Insurance and fraudulent conversion. Sentenced to seven years, with the foreman noting perceived offense and responsibility among co-defendants. Other items report auctions, concerts, and local notices from Sydney and Melbourne society pages.
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