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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 21, 1938
Page
4
Kuranda and district notes report local groups rallying across January with a fundraiser to support the Ambulance Committee. Funds will bolster Kuranda’s fire and ambulance services as residents pledge donations and prepare for March events and a community meeting at Kuranda.
A garbled account lists accidents, travels, and social notes across Kuranda and surrounding towns. Mentions names like Mr and Mrs Hinspeter, J Ro Hinspeter, and Mrs Carne of Towaville, plus locals from Kuranda, Atherton, and Keranda. The text blends weather, visits, and community curiosities with scattered quotes and dates.
A fragmentary report describes a wedding celebration with music, toasts, and thanks. A large crowd attended with local residents named, including a bride and groom, organist, and organizers. The piece praises hospitality, gifts, and the rain soiled travels home after the festive event.
A British inventor, Mr. AL Van Bama, unveils a 100 minute color print process costing about LG per photo. Using three colored matrices, yellow red and blue, the method claims rapid development and printing with limited amateur expense, enabling color films to be shown in unlimited sequence.
A secret marriage involving Mr Remere Caventeat Be yeerch son of Richard Cavemsinsky and Pamela Lloyd-Thomas was exposed after the ceremony at Kensington Church on December 1. The groom and witnesses Alan Hay and Miss Pamela Lloyd-Thomas’s father tied the knot amid hush hush arrangements.
A historic overview details the formation of NSW mounted police starting with two officers and eleven men, their equipment, and expansion to over a hundred across Goulburn Armidale and Bathurst. It notes gold rush tensions, the Lambing Flat riot, the Riot Act, and the rise of bushrangers like Gardiner Hall and Thunderbolt, including notable confrontations and policing reforms leading to a centralized force.
Rainfall noted at Koah with two inches surpassing January totals and February’s wet season trend. Local residents and visitors from Mareeba and Cairns are recorded visiting Koah, Dumaresque and others hosting guests, with social trips to Mareeba and Cairns. An accident at a new workshop left a worker needing an X-ray after a piece of fire embedded in the arm.
Betty Rowe the English film star says married life with Henri Garat, the French screen idol, was chaotic and ruled by constant travel between capitals. She cites endless work, devoted fans, and frequent separations as the cause of their split, noting they remain friendly in Paris and do not plan to remarry. The divorce hinged on grave mental injury.
An aged report honors Australian mounted police for two centuries of service in crime suppression and exploration. It recalls a violent duel where Walker killed a bushranger, while explorers Burke and Wills and Frederick Walker shaped the force, enduring dangers and long separations from civilization.
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