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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 22, 1935
Page
8
February notes describe drought affecting crops in Dimbulah with tobacco suffering after planting. Tobacco Growers Association formed as a cooperative trading company with 13 candidates vying for 10 director posts. A cricket match against Wolfram Club ended with a narrow loss for Dimbulah, player tallies and team details recorded.
In Herberton on February 3 and February 13, witnesses testified about a disturbance at the Australian Hotel involving George Moss and others singing and clapping in Room No. 9. Police constable Goodfellow observed the scene from the front while Moss and companions defended their evening out. The case, with remarks from licensee William Pitt and others, proceeded to dismissal discussions.
In Herberton a miner named George Moss faced a courthouse clash after a room dispute at the Australian Hotel led to a commission on liquor laws. The defense argued there was no noise or brawling, while the sergeant pressed for liquor-law amendments. The magistrate ruled soundly against Sunday drinking, fining Moss and ordering the hotel to curb singing and alcohol after hours.
Hannah More, famed poet and philanthropist born February 2, 1745 near Bristol, rose to London society through schooling, writing, and drama. She mentored, wrote Sacred Dramas, advocated abolition, and influenced English morals, remaining unmarried after a life of literary and social activity.
Innisfail and Johnstone River region cane history notes trace early sugar industry origins from 1880s mills to South Johnstone and Mourilyan. Thomas Fitzgerald and others helped establish mills, with 40 tons produced in 1881 82 and later expansions including Nesting and Mourilyan mills. South Johnstone rose as a major centre, cane throughput rising to nearly 300,000 tons in peak years and 200,000 last season amid wartime delays and ownership changes by Australian Sugar Company.
The article describes Australia’s latest major sugar mill project built from 1823 to 1925, noting construction by Barbat and Sons and the start of trials in November 1925 with completion by January 1926. It highlights government involvement, privatization, and the plant’s significance to the sugar industry across decades.
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