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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 27, 1925
Page
1
Classifieds detail steamship routes to Sydney Melbourne and Brisbane with mentions of cargo and passenger services, car and motor listings, building hardware, and job ads. Entries reference locations such as Mount Malloy Caivete Albionhy and Wallaby with numerous incomplete lines. The page reads as a jumble of transportation notices, sales pitches, and employment notices from an early 20th century newspaper.
A dense, fragmentary collection of classified notices mentions Haulage and Forwarding Agents, Studebaker and various trades. It lists addresses, local businesses, and hints at auctions, jobs, and services with scattered names like Boland's Ltd, Redlynch, Cairns, and Lake Street.
A dense auction style listing details millinery and dressmaking items for sale and related notices. The long catalog includes bids, prices, locations, and contact cues, naming multiple suppliers, shop ads, and sale events. The fragment references hats parasols and various garments, with addresses and sale terms sprinkled through.
A long OCR segment details a busy market of salesmen and manufacturers including Rose Brand Biscuits and Allis Imloel forwarding agents. It mentions property listings with houses, farms, and deposits, listing amenities, prices, and terms across multiple streets and towns. The text references insurance, warehousing, and various agents within a sprawling network, noting large acreages, improvements, and rental terms.
Sale notice lists Gurdonvale commission agents and a telephone contact for the sale. It mentions a date in the near term and references a strategy or method for timely realisation, with details obscured in the OCR. The readable fragments indicate a public or private sale process led by an agent.
Fragmentary OCR notice shows a rental advert with scarce readable terms and scattered names. The legible portion hints at a to let and wanted item context but lacks complete details such as location dates or contacts.
A Cairns sale offers riverfront and suburban allotments with frontage amenities and multiple residences. Properties include 2 year terms, deposits, and flexible balance payments, plus staged estate items and farm blocks in a comprehensive auction catalog.
A garbled notice seeks information leading to the recovery of a wand. The report mentions a station and police involvement, with a postal or delivery element and a reward offered. Names such as Houston and Carrie appear, but details are unclear. The item is described as a wand or similar object, with a promise of reward upon delivery to a listed contact.
Fragmented travel notes mention Holiday Resorts Hotel e TC and Arcadia Five Bish point. References to hotels, health resort facilities, and stay at the Court House Horst Wakke hotel appear amid unclear names and local travel details.
Local officials met to discuss the Bath memorial project amid disagreement on design and funding. Residents voiced concerns about location and cost while committee members urged a timely decision. The meeting concluded with a plan to revisit the proposal at next week’s session.
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