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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 17, 1911
Page
4
Local Cairns notes list arrivals, visits, and appointments including Mr CC Towns and Mrs Evans, Miss Evans, Miss Vermer, Mr W J Horne, and Bishopric Fund letters. Also mentions auction catalog items, real estate parcels near Mulgrave Mill, and various railway and church related items.
Sydney report from the Political Labour Conference outlines a fighting platform with planks on constitutional reform including abolition of the Legislative Council, electoral reform, land and financial reform, water conservation, public borrowing, free education, and science and technology funding. The session also notes debate on parliamentary candidate selection and executive endorsement.
The text notes that medical men examining youths will be paid one shilling per lad, a rate they deem insufficient. It suggests that Commonwealth doctors have agreed the rate is inadequate and have effectively gone on strike or adopted a lighter approach as they failed to secure a raise.
In Melbourne sessions George Henry Aldman was found guilty of forging a telegram to storekeeper Fuller at Lovet Tasmania. He was sentenced to one month, suspended on good behavior. The affair involved a coded message and misused telegrams linked to Fuller’s staff and two girls named Ward.
A long running subject in print sees renewed interest as cables report the marriage of Mien Vivien Gould, Jay Gould’s daughter, to Lord Deries aged 45. The event stirs American attention and underscores the ongoing appeal of cross Atlantic matches.
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