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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 26, 1951
Page
5
A fragmented Melbourne Newsletter item blends weather chatter with household notes and social commentary. It references farmers discussing forecasted conditions and a humorous, slightly surreal focus on home life, property prices, and a city market scene with quirky quotes and local flavor.
Canada bids farewell to the Ontario as it sails for Australia on February 1 under orders from Prime Minister and Defence officials. The 15 week training period includes joint operations with British and American fleets, with decommissioned vessels to follow a refit at a British Columbia base and a June return window.
An account of the perilous escape routes from behind the Iron Curtain with guards, high border fences, and dangerous patrols. It highlights routes from Romania Hungary and Czechoslovakia, price ranges from £49 to £900, and the risks faced by would be asylum seekers seeking freedom.
Geneva reports a scientifically controlled campaign to treat trachoma, an infectious eye disease, with a new antibiotic. The program, funded by WHO and UN relief agencies, targets Arab refugee camps and war-affected regions, aiming to reduce blindness and establish prevention methods across Mediterranean societies.
Flooding and heavy rains disrupted overland deliveries to Coen. More than 30 parcels and many papers were stuck, while seven packs left for Annis River to supply the township during the wet season. Pack horses have become essential as floods persist and trucks struggle to reach remote homesteads.
Canberra reports a large expansion in rayon manufacturing with Courtaulds at Rutherford and Bradford Dyers at Sale Victoria setting up, while the Nelson group plots a Tasmania factory. Governments push decentralisation and protective duties to support home production, with forecasts of rising capacity and employment in country centres.
Cardwell Shire Council members, led by chairman C Dickinson, pressed Premier Hanlon and Minister Hilton over undervalued land and plant reserve funds. They urged a fair valuation by the Valuer General to lift general rates, fund capital works, and warned against increasing the rate above 1/6. They plan a public meeting to protest ongoing undervaluation and rental issues affecting the town.
A garbled 1920s style scene describes rearranging furniture and managing a parlor setting. References to a reed for the test and various items like a standard lamp and lampshade hint at a domestic scene. The wording is fragmentary but conveys odd humor and drafty chaos around a parlor.
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