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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 13, 1945
Page
2
The Turf Club at Innisfail held a December meeting to build a fund for the Legacy War Orphans Appeal. Officials announced a donation of £0 to the fund, with a forthcoming race meeting planned for Saturday.
Poorly legible OCR hints a local note on cat races with weights for Saturday events. Mentions December and a track name or place. Sparse readable entities include likely race names and a timetable, but exact details are unclear.
Ragged notes recap bowls events with players Kerr Lotke Boland Baron Sata Seth and others. Mentions Dillon Marehmon Pur atl Martinazsl 16 9 Houstim McLaughlin Symone Benton 24 20 and several handicap results. Ends with references to committees and upcoming weekend area events.
Readable fragments detail inter-club visit results, Graded and Under competitions, and mixed doubles outcomes. Players like Thornley, Montgomerie, Lindsay, Ward, and Beattie appear in various pairings with scores and placements. A list of selected players and upcoming matches follows, with Sunday morning events noted.
Mareels hosts a race meeting on Saturday December 16 with Motor set to run from Mareels along a specified course. The event promises wagering and fast action for local spectators and participants.
Melbourne December reports the stewards found no evidence of malpractice at Temple Chief's Ascot Cup. They criticized Breathesey's handling of Stenalane as a grave error of judgment while noting the jockeys involved including Broadley Hartney Unxovich Spurtell Geen and Williamson.
Fragmented handbill lists greyhound entries and races with multiple dogs named such as Simoni Rominations and Meadire Mora Styl Christine. It references seven stakes, top prize notes, and a seventh race top stake with a money ingot and assorted breeds, but legibility is limited.
Fragments indicate political sympathy notes from Indian Congress for Indomesians. The garbled text references a meeting or statement and mentions a plea or support, with unclear date and location details.
A brief note references total sales by the Government, estimated at about £2000 over a five year period. No further details available in the fragment.
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