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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 13, 1920
Page
5
A busy session filled with numerous attendees as Mr Ferry and his staff processed tickets and proclamations. The day saw steady work from early morning until afternoon with officers checking tickets and authorities preparing for the next steps.
A Cairns gathering of the Women’s Electoral League discussed the food crisis with four officers present. Mrs Flu esy opened with remarks urging greater public concern and a plan to press the Prime Minister on food relief and wartime shortages. A resolution supported aiding soldiers’ families and unemployed workers, while potential press actions and local care efforts were debated.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Cedsus Supplies and Picur items in Cairns with cryptic references to quantities and personnel. The readable text includes scattered names and totals but yields no clear event, date, or outcome for a concise summary. The piece appears as an incomplete archival snippet with many garbled terms.
Application to deregister the Marine Engineers' Institute was heard yesterday with Justice Higgins presiding. The rule nisi returns next Wednesday and Jen Huggins warned Steamship Owners' Association must present stronger arguments to deregister the union.
Melbourne reports the next few days will decide labor movement views on federal action. If the ministry’s step is a protest tactic, expect a brief flare up. if militants feel their key privilege is at risk, broader trouble could follow. The Labor leader was surprised by the ministry’s move and offered no settlement prospects.
Mr Hughes argues the proclamation cutting supplies to strikers aims to block engineers from buying Burns Philp Island fleet. He says if the Institute can purchase the fleet despite the embargo, the Ministry will not impede and can provide funds tomorrow. He adds the proclamation cannot legally withhold wages to engineers.
Adelaide February 12. Mr Birrell president of the Trades and Labor Council calls an executive meeting tomorrow to discuss the federal action in the marine engineer strike. He cites grave principles beyond the dispute's merits. The Railway Commissioner announces reduced train service from Monday due to coal shortage from the shipping strike.
Sydney reports turmoil as marine engineers refuse to retreat from a strike despite a federal proclamation under the War Precautions Act. Executives fear meetings and fear government bans while calling for a compulsory conference. Labour’s main demand remains wage parity for essential commodities amid price rises.
Brisbane reports heat wave with shade temperatures reaching 97 in Melbourne and in Adelaide. An eastern Antarctic disturbance lingers offshore while a tropical system remains northeast of the central coast with no current threat to move inland but reminders of seasonal development.
Ee Rowe for London Paris plans evacuations and a Rhine province postwar approach. Alfied evacuation and with Marshal M Mit ace Jerand and French ministers travel to London for talks. Britain aims to secure long term credits for France and raise an international loan with neutral lands contributing to reestablish French industries. Germany likely to assist the loan. Government cautious on extra troops and announcements.
Queensland Parliament debated committee amendments to the Income Tax Amendment Bill with disputes over costs of serving summons, double costs on successful appeals, and omissions in the penalty clause. Reports on railway line inquiries were circulated after voting irregularities. The Protecting Prevention Bill faced retrospection debate and the Land Act Amendment Bill was rejected on division.
Brisbane legislature resumes estimates for the Department of Agriculture. MPs criticize drop in wheat areas, demand controls on cyanide sales, and seek work for unemployed soldiers. Premier reports on shearer Bond Mawson price and a new steamer purchase. ministers promise inquiries into distillery fencing wire and college support.
In the Arbitration Court before Justice Macnaughton the application for a new award for engine drivers in the southern division was decided. Engine drivers paid by weekly wage at establishments with such pay will receive a weekly increase of 34d per hour. The new award applies from January 10th last year.
Home Secretary McCormack said there is no cause for alarm as theHealth Department takes strict precautions against an outbreak of imminza in Queensland mainland. He noted the outbreak is confined to Thursday Island, which is isolated, with help from the Commonwealth and a destroyer sent with nurses and medical aid.
Thursday Island reports further influenza cases amid a breakdown of relief efforts. Three doctors and six trained men are aboard Roggeveen en route but cannot arrive before the antic. Families suffer with no nourishment and supplies run low while medical help and milk are awaited to aid convalescents.
The Defence Department steps to cope with the intenza epidemic. Captors Ho Bourne and Hogg with two nurses travel by northern mail tram to Gladstone to meet two doctors and others and proceed to Thursday Island to assist the senior medical officer. Doctors' services to be available where required, not limited to military patients.
London reports the second League of Nations Council meeting at St James Palace with Britain led by Mr Balfour and France represented by M Poincaré. Participants from Spain Greece Brazil Italy Japan discuss Switzerland entry and a plan for an international court of justice and health body formation.
Secrecy remains tight as Cairo to Cape air competitors withhold information until Egypt is reached. Official reports say Cotton is at varying points while Australian sources note the machine did not complete its mission, contrasting Silver Run’s 14 hour feat landing at Sollam after overnight travel in bad weather. Cockergill’s Vickers repairs continue at Khartoum.
Feb 12 Charlville reports morning arrival of Captain Hurley and Commonwealth 4s aviators bound for Rourke. A Silver crash near Wadihar caused water evaporation in a radiator. the aircraft wrecked but the aviators are safe.
A North of England initiative seeks to bring two thousand school age children from Europe to England for a year of hospitality with Manchester and Bradford councils invited to provide lodging. The note ends with a garbled aside about judgments and bets.
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