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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 26, 1926
Page
7
All outstanding accounts must be paid by March 4 with a 10 percent charge. If not settled, proceedings will be taken to collect on and after March 6. Subscriptions must be paid when Kollector calls or the paper will be stopped the following morning. Delivery agents will not deliver to unpaid subscribers.
The Premier’s letter to Mr. W. Ross confirms alterations to the Cairns Tableland main road section near Riverstone Sitk Mulgrave and states construction will begin after the wet season, likely at end of April. Shipping remains steady with several overseas and coastal vessels due in Cairns in March. Two men appeared at Cairns Police Court for drunkenness and assaulting a constable after a disturbance near Spence and Sachs streets. one fined, the other released on recognisance.
The Maize Market at Remastreet remained steady with prices quoted in the day’s notes including Copner and electrolytic copper values. Also reported were a spate of showers in Cairns, a Citizens Band concert near the Mining Exchange Hotel led by J Gallagher, and a bicycle fall injuring contractor Harry Downing in Warren Street treated by Cairns ambulance attendants before being taken to a doctor.
A critique argues that the phrase class consciousness functions as a demagogue tool to manipulate emotions and erode logic. It warns the term fuels false royalty ideas, undermines democracy, and threatens social order, noting its spread among Labor figures and in schools.
A chaotic notice page shows multiple events and sales in Cairns with auctions by J Egan A J Ryan Woodward Calder Mackay Co and others. Upcoming moonlight trip to Admiralty Island and Green Island departure times along with public auctions and meetings for local clubs and societies.
Tide and moon phase details noted with high water at 8 34 a m and a bull moon event around 2 0 am on February 28, reflecting coastal observations and lunar timing.
The Interstate cargo steamer Mule Vita arrived at Payneville this morning from Melbourne via ports. The next interstate passenger steamer to visit is the Nhe Locka, expected here on Wednesday, with departure for the South on the following Wednesday.
Forecaster predicts scattered showers along the tropical coast with isolated thunderstorms in the south west and a temporary cool spell at night in the southwest. Local authorities plan to sell a parcel of 47 blocks along the Caria Shire wall under the historical Lands Act, with landholders likely unaware of the sale details.
A city meeting of the Technical College Employers Association approved starting apprentice classes for carpentry and printing trades tonight at the Technical College. Apprentices will study theory Fridays and perform practical work weekdays with wage and tuition guidance under the Apprenticeship Act.
Brisbane hosts the fourteenth annual United Cane Growers Association meeting with delegates from all regions. President Powell notes deaths of key founders and urges relief for Victoria cane losses. The session discusses Hughes Government policy, power alcohol as a potential solution, rail loading conditions, and pest diseases affecting cane crops. A deputation to the Minister for Agriculture is planned to address these issues.
Reports from Townsville and Hull describe Communist visits to Soviet ships and police actions during sugar and timber shipments. The texts allege Bolshevist crews met with local communists, with police supervision and restricted shore access amid broader anti-Communist measures.
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