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Newspaper

Cairns Post

Location

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Date

Dec 24, 1919

Page

3

Cairns Shire Council Monthy Meeting Highlights

Cairns Shire Council held its final meeting of the year in Shire Chambers on Friday afternoon chaired by Dr SH Warner. Reports covered road surveys, financial support for survey work, dam and bridge maintenance, weed pest listings, tenders for printing and timber, and progress on road works from White Rock to Bee. Delegates discussed river snagging and the state of a horse, with various repairs and inspections across Mulgrave, Gordonvale, Babinda, and Stoney Creek, plus sanitary matters and a note on a water supply issue at Babinda.

Cairns SH. Warner Sheppards Me Mion Cannon Griffin Yr Knowles Fetler de Reed Me Stovelly Ayde Woree Nin Jack Finnton Shire Comwell Manhone Council Mulgrave Herberton Rheinhold Paitic Estate Improvement Department Gordonvale Progress Association Atherton Bros Hop Wah Trown Bellenden Ker A. McGuigan DC Mu Inchinate Science Horseweed Cummins & Campbell Printing Fast” Timber Ewart Gonfin Wright's Creek Aloomba Stoney Creek Qeerseee Fitzpa Shire Dirme Fitzpatrick White Rock Bee Kamma-Mack Green Hilla Road Wright's Roek Gordon's Creek McKinnon’s Creek Wruht’s Creek Shout Oo Cobie Sewell Gang Fordonvale Reets Townson's Road G. Davis Abdal- Tah Davis Gioe Grey's Creek Gordonvale Babinda Russell Road Moolaba Russell River Cleland Havin Riverstone Hedon Grifin Knowles

Local Council Meets Amid Pension and Repatriation Talks

The meeting discussed continuing repatriation quota payments to end of March amid questions of local authority funding. Councillors Griffin and Dr Sheppards pressed for continued support while others urged reassessment as elections loomed.

Hickers Sheppards Harehors Rivers Department Charman Gafin Dr Sheppards Griffin Ruther Allewn Reed Warner Tr Tent Cr Knowles

Malanda Notes Weather and Elections Chronicle Local Tales

Weather remains unsettled with threats of rain and wind as Malanda records scarce stock losses amid dry conditions. Elections on the 19th draw suffragists and locals. jovial, orderly turnout noted. Social events include a successful Rest Home fundraiser with a £15 gain and prize raffles. congratulations to Mr and Mrs Humphries on a new son.

Hoxing Arth pie-East Malanda Ryan Hughes Meriwratth Griffiths Russell Tommy Sam Billy Atherton Rest Home Sladies Mr. Reid

Stay Young and Hair Color Rejuvenation Promotion

An advertisement promises youth through Mrs Reaver's Extract for grey hair that allegedly restores natural color in 24 hours. The copy urges readers to try the product to regain a youthful appearance and step through the Door of Youth with renewed hair.

Christmas Beef Mystery Ends With Beef Feast

In a tale of a late night chase under moonlight, Murchison Knox and Axel Hendrikson pursue a ghostly cow through scrub and timber as tailing pack horses and a wary crew stumble toward a Christmas dinner. Dick Naylor narrates a playful pursuit and the village arrives at a hearty roast beef, with Murchison later discovering a defunct cow tail in a cardboard box. Kathleen Rose Francis, dated September 1919.

Murchison Knox Tuemer Axel Hendrikson Hluen Axel Marehior Tran Lewis Saul Kino Tim Lewis Dick Naylor Tom Lewis Lewis Stone‘hill Agel Remant Kathleen Rose Francis

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