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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 12, 1943
Page
3
A bustling entertainment night features stage dances, a swing band, fashion attire, and prize draws. Patrons enjoy a variety program with special guests, including Seldman and the featured guests, while proceeds support local causes.
ALOOMBA NOTES reports a February dance at the Red Cross benefit hosted by Moerawa members with excellent music supplied by RAIS orches. Mr Herb Dalton oversaw raffles, prizes were shared among several ladies, and Mrs A Brocery organized the cake cafe. Town figures and guests included Mr KirWhy Hagel, Noreen, Babinda Mrs Barr, and others visiting from nearby towns.
Reflective reading urges opening the heart to cheerfully bear all and bravely endure life. It quotes Psalm 90:12 urging wisdom through numbered days. The excerpt presents a devotional tone, promoting inner discipline and practical piety.
Private A Hearn of Giadge-atrest and Private James Arthur Hearn are named on the Roll of Honour. He enlisted with the forces in Caray, served in the Middle East, Tobruk, and England, later returning to Australia before his untimely death in New Guinea. Another soldier of the same name is also mentioned.
A letter discusses warm weather drawing beachgoers to South and Coolangatta with calm seas bringing near sharks. Allied servicemen deter sharks by firing revolvers, while Warruna offers a home for women of service next Friday. The Presbyterian and Methodist committees will use it as a residence near the tram with modern conveniences to assist WA AFs and AWAs lacking housing in Brisbane. A mobile canteen operated by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union is planned in George Square to aid victims’ relief funds, with proceeds supporting patriotic funds. The piece notes hospital matrons, charitable homes, and a papier mache millinery project by a group in Chambers.
A visitor recalls an aged inhabitant noting that a venerable local man treats all early settlers with deference. The elder jokes the man is near thirty but points out his unusual habit of paying all his hills promptly on the first of every month.
The article discusses Tasmanian aboriginal artifacts possibly made locally, notes a Morton Mains Disease in Scottish and New Zealand flocks caused by cobalt deficiency, and reports on field observations at Morton and new work assessing trace elements and nest behavior in birds, including Yellow Robins and other species, with calls for further notes from ornithological societies.
ACF YMCA report details Middle East activities providing comforts to all shelters. Tents and huts are well lit and equipped with radios and cooking gear. Free tea with cigarettes and beverages were offered at beaches. Four trips to centers supported by mobile units delivered supplies and services to coast areas.
Town and Country notices farewell events across multiple households. Workers at Wrotham Park Butchering Co. bid farewell to K G Payne with a gift set as he departs for the south. The retirement and ceremony of local figures, plus a surprise party in South Johnstone, are noted along with family travels and education plans for Veronica Wieland at Saint Patrick's College.
Fragmented wartime letter from a British officer describes longing for home and mother, confusion over events, and the urge to move forward. The text references a move toward progress despite hardship, with mentions of battles, personal recollections, and the strain of war on morale.
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