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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 08, 1948
Page
8
A fragment from The Cairns Post dated Thursday January 8 1948 references a car seat notice. The readable text identifies publication origin and date but lacks further event details or names to establish a full news item.
A busy Cairns page lists cars, motorcycles, and hardware for sale. Includes a 1998 Pontiac overhauled utility model, various bikes from Acre to Harley and BSA, and many local business ads for radiators, tools, and farm equipment. Also notes furniture, musical records, and household goods with contact Box numbers and street addresses.
A series of classified sale notices lists items from modern lounge and dining room suites to lighting plants, refrigerators, motorcycles, sewing machines, tools, horses, and a 1941 Ford V-8. Multiple sellers including Harry Thompson, S A Shields Street Cairns, and others advertise under various locations in Innisfail and Cairns North with prices and contact hints.
A crowded list of sale items and wanted ads from Cairns including furniture, farm equipment, seeds, musical instruments, vehicles, and household goods. Vendors such as Mrs. Kelly, Percy Summers, and N W Taylor advertise with prices, terms, and contact locations across Gordonvale, Redlynch, and Lake Street Cairns. Items include beds, tables, pumps, tools, gardening seeds, radios, phonographs, and motors.
Invitations for vacancies as Albertie Trainee Cairns Base Hospital course of training five to six months to hold general nursing certificates. Award rates and board and lodging, free uniforms and laundry. Modern sea front location. Apply to Secretary Cairns Base Hospital P.O. Box 4 Cairns. Also Double-Certificated Sister at Gordonvale Memorial Hospital about 144 miles south of Cairns with board lodging free laundry and uniform allowance. Modern nurses’ quarters. First class single fare train fare refunded after six months. Apply with credentials to Secretary Cairns Base Hospital. Also appointment to Homehold Staff of Cairns Hospital with Matron wanted must hold two certificates and wage conditions plus £5 per annum bonus after 12 months. Applications to Secretary with credentials. Also various domestic posts and general advertisements for cooks, housemaids, cleaners, and trades in Cairns area with involved wages, conditions, and apply addresses.
Wanted Female Cook Criterion Hotel phone 3075. WANTED Woman washing and cleaning two mornings weekly apply 13 Esplanade. For bulldozer work reclamation or filling contact 97 Bulve Road Cairns or 3217 Gast Lawnmower. J Williamson proprietor. Watches repaired by Harry Bonnell 3% Spence Street or 12 Palm Avenue Cairns. All work guaranteed HME Lt Galah. Reward on return to National Hotel. L Cameo Brooch main shopping block. Hewerd and J Speerritt c/- T McDonald Jewellers. Gladstone Bay finder please leave at Tropical Theatre office. Cairns Motor Boat Club annual meeting tonight at club rooms. Election of Officers for ensuing term. Hotel 0 am. Sunday January ith. Therton Barron ia pm. Sunday January ith.
Chinese authorities in Shanghai push a moral regime that hits gambling, horse and dog racing, cinemas and theatres, with charity funds drying up. Protests over a winter relief tax lead to cinema closures while Peiping and Shanghai arrange limited charity performances to keep theatres open.
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