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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 07, 1919
Page
1
Townsville reports a wave of industrial tension as AMEU and AMLE pickets confront returned soldiers and QMEs workers. Revolvers stolen from two guards, court hearings delay, and a mass crowd shows sympathy for accused. Meatworks and riverworks operations paused as unions press demands.
Adelaide reports from the McBride Home at Medingiec operated by the Salvation Army that a woman gave birth to four boys. Each child weighed 8 pounds at birth and all are reported well.
Rain fell across the south and west from Normanton to Goondiwindi with central and south-west districts seeing the greatest benefit. Stations recorded up to 7 inches with many reporting six inches. Reports note improving conditions in the tropical interior though unsettled weather persists in the southern mid interior.
In Brisbane the Minister of Mines asked mine managers Crciery Hampden about using local unemployed men. Mt Elliott Co reports 63 men employed, Hampden holdings and Cemebank dispute unsettled. Cloncurry mines employ 630 men but 70 or more remain idle in the district.
Melbourne, Feb 3. HD Brooks, clerk at the Middle Park E and A bank, watched as three men approached to rob the Albery Park branch. Detectives hid nearby and two assailants surrendered. A third fled, was shot in the back, captured after fighting, and taken to Melbourne Hospital as Tasman Clark. The other two men were revealed as Arthur Oliver and William Horne.
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