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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 24, 1953
Page
6
Hollywood reporting mixed with regional notices covers Tu Che Social Spotlight and a Palmyra district update. A gala at the school marks Mrs Sowers and Mrs Ingram officiating, with remarks by national figures and a note on women’s civic roles.
Note reads like a mid century industrial forecast. It mentions oil companies planning several new refineries at Kwinana Premante Durta and Kurnell near Melbourne to raise capacity by several million tons annually. Also references a Bombay arc refinery expansion targeting two million tons and twelve million tons per year, with credit balances and projected on stream timelines.
A derailed fragment reports a request for lions from Addis Ababa via the Dutch embassy. The ambassador conveys that the Emperor agreed to present two lions, though the earlier note mentions a lioness not bearing offspring by their agents. The exact sequence and dates are unclear in the fragment.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions Fulton and scattered names and places like ARI and Iowa. It appears to be an incomplete medical or case notice with unclear actions and respondents, lacking coherent facts or dates to form a full item.
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