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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 12, 1917
Page
2
Beem Pipool Co. service details arrival in Townsville every Tuesday morning and departure toward Werandra on Purings leaves. The note outlines a weekly pattern with a recurring transit between Port Townsville Werandra and southbound routes.
Bowen Coal and Coke Co Ltd retail trade names Cairns Pictures and Commonwealth War Bonds appear in a damaged list with monetary values and garbled terms. The readable items reference company names and a few financial figures likely from a catalog or notice.
The fragment notes J J Tully related to a November 1917 period with a reference to liability. Limited readable context suggests a legal or contractual matter tied to that date. No further names or places are clearly legible in the text.
Report from November 1917 on No 6 North level and shaft depths with evidence of rich lodes and sulphide ore. Describes patches of rich toles, a 7 ft shaft depth, and complications due to copper vein in the footwall hindering operations.
A fragmented text discusses forming a district and a cooperative approach. It mentions Seton and relations to the district and a commitment to act in the best interests of the wrest district within cooperative plans. No clear event dates or organizational details are reformable from the readable snippets.
A cable reports the Fatherland Party plans a League of Faithful Followers of the Kaiser to block any move toward parliamentary government in Germany. The piece argues Allied actions failed to sway the German mind and that liberty and constitutionalism have not proven superior to autocracy.
The Ayamet metal market report lists December 16 spot and standard quotes for electrolytic silver and foreign metals. Prices show modest declines and paralleled by minor shifts in standard and nonstandard items.
After drought devastation, Burenda and Nive Do na report a 140 percent rise in lambings this year, signaling rapid flock recovery and stronger livestock production for the area.
A list details cattle and sheep movements including 230 cows and calves via T Carmody and H Brooks. mixed sheep to Holly Downs Morven and Dumorgan Newmarket. Cairns to Narrawong with ten mixed sheep. drivers include A McCrimnon and G Pitt.
The Cairns notices list a Ban monthly meeting at 4 pm and a harness event at 2 pm on Saturday. An auction by J G Hoare of farming implements is announced for 11 am today, with details in advertisements. Cairns Police Court reports a man named James Wallace fined for an offence and Sleep discharged. A stock sale by J H Brownlee of W A Brotherton’s farm at Kabin is scheduled for 1 pm next Saturday with absolute sale of all premises. Also remedies and local criticisms about tram horses and road conditions are noted.
Notice from Inken and Le Notify sets Shields Street to close from Saturday the 15th until further notice. Businesses urge early calls due to unfinished work and limited access. Mr C H Evans and Miss Cohen will staff until 1 pm Saturday.
Advertisements urge the Cairns Ambulance excursion next Sunday and promotions at Geo Hughes Toy Store. Notices report Trooper T Hynes wounded in Palestine and another son in France, plus price rises but value under Waddell Babinda. Also Royal Insurance and seed sales, a naval amnesty box, and plebiscite candidate W J Sloan leaving Lands Department after eleven years.
This notice urges readers with eye defects to seek accurately fitted glasses from a recognised and established specialist. It promotes H. F. Stacey as the only established ophthalmic optician in Abbott Street Cairns and offers free consultation or service.
An Observer letter complains about motor car headlights blinding pedestrians and asks authorities to enforce stricter lighting. The writer highlights risks to the public and urges action to reduce glare and improve safety for those approaching from the opposite direction.
The piece defends Australian troops as essential forces at Gallipoli and across France and Flanders. It rebuts claims of Australians as merely a drop in a bucket, praising their heroic ardour, victories, and discipline. It urges enlistment to support Australia and the Allied war effort.
Tuesday a Harbor Board conference with the Harborrd Executive discussed harbor guard duties at wharves and victualing costs. Gunner Thorne advised guarding from arrival in the shed and noted provisioning when vessels lie alongside. A levy on cargo to cover costs was proposed, with options to victual at the drill shed or on the ship.
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