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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 17, 1917
Page
1
Parcel listing for the Cairns parish area describing multiple acre lots for sale or lease. Includes references to Dear Bax Mails, fraing consiwater Crock, and a house with clearing Verda. Mentions proximity to Retirech Station and unspecified boundaries or conditions.
Parcel notice from Smithfield area describes clearing and sale of rice farm land at nine dollars per acre. Details are incomplete and readable names unclear.
Fragmentary OCR notes advertise acres for sale with scattered figures and descriptors. Likely a real estate listing mentioning multiple parcels, sections, and prices offered for quick disposition without clear owner or location details.
Fragmentary OCR item references Muteraee River area parcels near Harvey Port and a railway station. Mentions 197 acres of virgin scrub and 160 acres with lots in a growing riverfront zone, with associated properties and roads.
Fragmentary note from a local page mentions Hambledon Gordonvale and Gerdvevale with unclear context. The OCR provides unreadable sequence of syllables and place names, offering no concrete event or date to summarize into a full obituary or article item.
Parliament discusses a £15,700 allocation for the State Hotel and the future of State House ventures in Western Australia. Mr Macartney questions profits, management, and the shift to centralized control under one ministry to improve efficiency, with plans for earlier statutory provisions on financial governance.
The debate centers on government actions in a prohibition area including hotel closures and compensation. Mr Bridges alleges lawbreaking by selling liquor without a license and questions enforcement while the government defends acquisitions and prosecutions.
Testimony discusses prosecutions for sly grog selling in Moolabah amid prohibition areas near Gordonvale. Auditor General notes bar takings from August to October 1917 and concerns whether the hotel would prosper without liquor sales.
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