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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 14, 1954
Page
3
A partial, unclear report notes a 2-2 score between Gav and Perry Mumell with a 7 pm start on Sunday at the Babinda Club in Babinda. The fragment hints at results, players Magrath and Eze, and club rankings amid a broader bowling event but details remain obscured by the OCR text.
Fragmentary OCR text lists Russo, W Brown Savin, Frawley, Williams, Butler and Welah among players with 11 27 and 22 3 figures. Mention of home game and opponents Russo v Williams and Wedderburn appears. Details are unclear and many names seem misspelled.
A garbled local text references a proposed sewer project including a discharge pipe from a well to the main line between Abbott Street and Esplanade. It mentions safety concerns, potential costs, and lingering uncertainty about the project’s progress and safety.
A New Zealand government and private venture plans a vast forestry scheme centred on Murupera and Tokoroa to supply pulp for paper mills. The project envisions planting and harvesting timber to feed a papermaking complex, with growth rates noted as faster than North American trees. It includes a power goal using subterranean geothermal activity to help run the mill and potentially sell up to 2008 workers into the enterprise as it expands.
At Mosman on Sunday the Mow club staged a tight final with Alf by M leading at times and Fortunes varied. The match swung. Crees finished strong to win the title 25 to 19 in the seventeenth end after a 25 all tie. Players included R. Lom erat Gi Gusmeroll P. Wood and McCrelland.
Local report notes that grading for the union lore project may begin before the wet season, with work ongoing for years and final costs not yet settled. The item references Ingham and hints at long-running completion efforts and budgeting uncertainties.
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