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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 17, 1928
Page
7
A blurred wartime style notice advertises a farm sale to be held Friday at a location eight miles from Reillan, near Millen. The ad lists parcels of 109 acres and mentions described improvements and productive fields. Names and full details are obscured by OCR garble.
Cairns Tareeland Motor Spr announces a five day Sunday service plan with multiple daily departures and a meeting schedule listing several local names and places including Atherton, Yumyaburra, and Handi tied to the timetable. services run with varied times and venues such as a garage and tepe noted in the fragments.
An advertisement for Hosanko's Cyc and Orr Electro Plating offers services with prompt attention to orders. It provides a phone number and postal box address for inquiries and quotations on premises work and related descriptions.
The undersigned announces a selection of farm tools and plows for sale in Cairne and Inniafait. Highlights include Willmanns ploughs, Harrow, patent economy cane ted weeders, and other best market items. Local trWks firm promotes reliable implements for farmers.
Harbor board ledger details dredging and canal work including silt removal, pile driving, and vessel movements. Reports cover dredging at the Urinity Buy and other channels, coal piles and molasses, and wages for crews at wharves. January tonnage and fuel figures cited, with notes on electric power and vessel occupancy.
A fragmentary report outlines recommendations from the Works Committee on a Returned Sailors and Soldiers League employment request, a two week holiday proposal, and a refusal about another offer. It details dredging, wharf frontage clearance, dredger use, jetty construction, new platforms, and maintenance repairs across various harbor facilities including the Atherton Buyer Co storage, conveyors, back-wash alterations, and the overseas wharf reinforcement as cyclones damaged the area. The document lists costs, repairs, and ongoing projects under the Marine Department.
The article records a late 1920s coastal and railway year with floods and cyclones, detailing financial receipts, expenditures, and works. It notes dredging, repairs, and storage rentals, plus staff changes and resignations including engineer postings and committee appointments.
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