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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 03, 1925
Page
1
A dated Cairns advertisement promotes Australian coastal steamers offering comfortable travel on routes to Port Douglas Townsville Mackay Brisbane and Melbourne. It lists travel agents and shipping lines and notes services and accessories for passengers and vehicles, with various local business ads interspersed.
Fragmentary miscellany items from a Cairns page show many business names and ads. Businesses include Galans Carrying Co Pty Haulage and Forwarding Agents and General Carriers, Moynahan's Pharmacy, Robertson and Turner Tailors, a piano tuning service, and a steam laundry. The page mixes auctions sales and promotions with shop notices and service offers.
A cluttered sale notice lists items and real estate for sale including a portable typewriter a two story residence cane farm and various vehicles. It mentions Cairns Realty Co and A L Nevitt with multiple properties and prices in pounds and shillings. The page also advertises land near Atherton and Mareeba and a forest firewood sale from Mooimin Siding with delivery estimates.
The Cairns Gas Company Ltd offers limited stock of forty gallon casks of tar at 37 shillings per cask on rail or steamer. Poor four gallon tins delivered free on rail at 5 shillings per tin. Remittances accompany orders. For further particulars apply the Manager.
A fragmented list describes seaside holiday resorts and hotels around Innisfail Cairns and Douglas with accommodations and amenities. Mentions include Arcadia Pacific Innisfail Seaside Holiday Resort and Hotel arrangements at various motels and inns with emphasis on single rooms, meals, liquor, civility, cleanliness, and coastal recreation like surfing and fishing. Names include Heatley F. and T. J. Redden, plus proprietors Mihailides and Arthur Moran.
Woodward and Calder Auctioneers list property for sale with deposits and weekly payments. Neon House on Lake Street Cairns offers four rooms a verandah and land at £650 with £150 deposit. New House on tink blocks priced at £850 with £100 balance, and a Home on high blocks priced £790 with terms arranged.
Auction notice from Woodward and Calder Cairns listing multiple cane estate lots with varied acreages under cane ploughed plant and ratoons. Each lot shows price terms with deposits from £200 to £2,000 and balances due on crops or percent with improvements such as houses barracks stables engines and implements. Auctioneers Lake Street Cairns.
An assortment of advertisements and notes from Cairns promoting varnish brands like Var nish and Holand Lod lodging, linoleum coatings, galvanised tank work, plumbing services, and furniture refinishing. Mentions Abbott Street Cairns and related hardware offerings with casual notices about lodging and boarding.
Public Accountant and agent promotes Lake Street and Sheridan Street residences in Cairns with 24 perches and 1 acre plots, 4 room Florence Sweet home, and a corner allotment near Low Street. Also notes farm horses available and a salesman catch phrase “The man on the Jos.”
Auctioneer and commission marks advertise multiple lots in Gordonvale including 68 acres with cane and plant cane, 76 acres with new fencing and cane to cut, 160 acres under cultivation with machinery, and additional properties with houses stables and carts. Terms sighted include cash deposits and balance on terms, with “walk out” and mill access details.
Odell Ltd advertises freehold farms from 0 to 168 acres in Mulgrave and Freshwater districts with cane crops, dewllings, stables, and plant. prices from £4700 to £16,000. Also offers general store freehold, leasehold houses, subdivided allotments, and second hand furniture with cash sales and inspection by bona fide buyers.
A J EGAN & COMPANY auctioneers list includes sugar farms with several hundred acres under cane, river land, farm implements, residences, and livestock. Also offered are profitable small businesses, boarding houses, a barber shop with billiards, and multiple allotments with town sites and development potential.
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