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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 17, 1932
Page
2
A fragmented listing or notice references Matrena and Maids and Bains at a Rye venue with mention of a higher life theme and a feature by a local organizer. The readable text suggests a staged performance or program entry with vague clues to content and timing.
A Cairns Post page captures letters from home circle members including Rosemary Babinda, Nancy Carroll, Enith Matthews, and others. Messages touch on holidays, badges, schooling, pen-names like Fairy Tulip, and river floods affecting activities. Readers share news of exams, birthday greetings, and plans to meet, writing from towns such as Kuranda and Highleigh.
The notice invites essays honoring roles in the Great War including soldiers sailors nurses ambulance bearers padres Red Cross workers and mothers. It urges personal reflections on Gallipoli and other campaigns, praising sacrifices for freedom and urging youths to express gratitude in their own words.
Nellie Steele, aged 13, writes of Second Beach and its falls. The journey from Cairns carries passengers each Sunday to climb toward the falls where silver water becomes a rainbow spray and pools form for swimming. The scene includes green mosses, rocks like stairs, water lilies, and a lush surrounding farm, all described with vivid detail.
In a garbled ad style exchange, a character praises a powder that allegedly erases aging signs, promising decades shaved from appearance and clear skin. The scene features a red hat and a conversation about facial transformation, with a sales pitch claiming dramatic results and mass appeal.
The Bairns Circle sends birthday wishes to Rose Steersaer Moor Dew kissed Rose and Maid of Pawngilly with mottoes about work and courage. The notes include Forest Maulen Maroucka and Pawngilly references, wishing many happy returns and stout hearts for the day.
Captain C E Snodgrass of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Association offers a prize for letters from Cairns Home Circle members explaining what Anzac Day means. Girls and boys are invited to write to Rosemary, sharing their views on the sacred holiday honoring service and sacrifice. Include name and pen name on the envelope marked Anzac.
A fragmentary humor sketch portrays a wife and husband trading quips about finances and appearances. An enthusiastic young man visits a large firm and asks about career prospects. The VO manager replies that the firm builds wells and offers limited upward mobility.
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