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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 11, 1928
Page
4
ADVERTISING list of cushion covers in various designs and fabrics with prices per item. Includes black velvet and poplin cushions, duchess sets, duchess white centres, and linen damask table linen. Mentions white duchess designs, lace trimming, single and double bed sizes, and freight terms for cash orders.
Direct importers advertise home furnishing goods for the holidays. Feature plain white filet curtain nets and colored nettings, floral lategens, shale wide fabrics, and a new Xmas shipment of linoleums. Buyers urged to visit Busy Stores for selections and prices.
Vintage ad lists children’s footwear including Cherub shoes in tan leather and black patent with lace trims, size 4 to 6, prices around 9/11. Also features felt slippers and kindergarten ankle bar designs in red and sage, with multiple size ranges and prices.
Comfort at Last For Men features Crocs with pliable leather soles in black and tan, available in all sizes. Fancy leather slippers in gray and brown also offered, plus patent dancing pumps and white kid lined oxford styles. Elastic front dancing pumps and price data listed for each pair.
A catalog style notice lists assorted candies and chocolate mixtures offered at special prices. Items include Milky Mints Frutether Max Mints Tubes Bronettes Mixtures Carame Licorice Cocoanut Vometes and Preserved Pineapple With pricing indicated as 2/6 per pound and 2/6 for Our Special Chocolate Mixture No 1 No 2 and 4 6 for seed ginger.
The fortnightly Tully General Hospital committee met Thursday evening at 11 in the Farmers Association Hall. Present were chairman J Winter and members A E Joseph Colletun Benson Jorgen sen Abdullah and Mesdames Dillon and Winter, plus Medical Superintendent Dr Unwin. A motion to call tenders for firewood delivery and stacking at the hospital was carried after discussion of measles cases and isolation ward plans.
At the November meeting the Cardwell Shire Council discussed unrecoverable rates, compensation for road resumption, and a hospital operating table dispute with the CWA. The council approved appointing probationers, addressed burial tenders, and tackled road work tenders and railway repairs, with plans for future works and site signs.
In Great Britain the majority of new motor cars sold are saloon models, accounting for nearly seventy percent of the total. The trend highlights consumer preference for conventional body styles amid evolving automotive options.
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