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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 27, 1946
Page
8
A dense column of classified notices and small ads. Items include sale of furniture tools and vehicles, farm equipment, building materials, and real estate. numerous wanted postings for jobs, services, and household help. and announcements for local happenings and trades in Cairns and surrounding districts.
Lost items include towels and a large round photo addressed to Mrs Reed. Contact Box Ad. Full set teeth reported missing. Racecourse event on Saturday with fireman aboard ship. Names Samuel Allen, Sona Lid, G Groth, station master Catriu. Wallet location unknown. return to F Wright in Atherton.
Community notices advertise furnished and unfurnished flats in Atherton and Cairns, with rooms for let and house offers. The Shire of Herberton invites tenders for a 20 model International Truck, and supply quotations for stretcher poles legs camp ovens tubs boilers and related gear, with details at the Shire Office and Main Road Office.
Tenders close at 2 pm on Tuesday 12 March 1948 for disposal of 543,305 sandbags at Coronation House Brisbane and for allotments and a Town of Atherton property including a former private hospital building. Applications to District Superintendent, Commonwealth Disposals Mission Cairns. Inspection hours 10 am to 5 pm. Auditors, Cairns. Queensland Housing Commission.
A Cairns housing scheme invites tenders for sixteen timber dwellings at Esplanade Leke and Digger Streets Cairns with 10 30 am deadline on Monday 11 March. Separate notices announce a Mareeba Tableland Horseowners meeting and a Cairns Jockey Club rules review with auditor election and proposed rule changes.
The German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen's crew passes through U S ports with ceremonial greetings. In Philadelphia German pilots receive lavish gifts and scarce items such as clothing, food, and cigarettes as the ship appears in a festive mood.
London reports sweeping reductions in central to eastern Russia prices effective immediately. Bread drops 38 percent, macaroni 55 percent, sugar 33 percent, film 15 to 30, meat 10 to 20, cheese 15 to 20, cigarettes halved, and vodka 2 percent cheaper. Other notices include local ads for concrete work, a dental clinic opening at Cains Hospital under J P Cavanagh, and various farm sale and business notices.
Witnesses describe a confrontation where a soldier pressed for liquor and a defendant offered two or three bottles, with further talk of lemonade and a plan to go to the beach. The defendant claimed stock of three bottles whisky, three gin, and a bottle of rum, while detailing the hotel layout and passageway.
The defendant denies selling whisky to two soldiers for 2 pounds 5 shillings, claiming only lemonade was sold. A Prices Branch officer and witnesses describe tense exchanges, threats, and accusations amid an investigation at the bar as the case proceeds.
A British agent remained undetected in Monte Carlo during the war and aided the escape of seventy four Allied prisoners from mountain forts above the resort. The tale, drawn from Charles Robbins in the January 15 issue of the Saturday Evening Post, details bribery of Vichy guards and Maquis aid to free prisoners through a tunnel dug in a hillside fastness, with many inmates slipping away under cover and a pursuing guard thwarted by timing and human distraction.
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