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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 28, 1925
Page
1
Classified column shows numerous helper and skilled worker notices. Entries include laundress, general servant, carpenter, cook, blacksmith, and trades positions across towns like Cairns and Port Douglas. Ads request applications with contact details, durations, and wage notes, plus real estate and sale listings interspersed.
A garbled but readable notice from WOODWARD & CALDER, AUCTIONEERS AND PROPERTY SALE, announces property and house sales at LAKE SKEE-CALENS. Listings include furnished flats, farm plots, stables, and residence blocks with deposits, weekly rents, and terms. Names like JOAN PRICE and various addresses appear amid mixed prices and measurements.
A clipped regional ad page lists myriad properties and goods for sale or rent. Entries describe farms, shops, and dwellings with prices, locations, and terms, including acreage figures, lease lengths, and improvements, alongside business services and auction announcements.
A fragmented advertisement describes sale of sugar farms and cane land totaling many acres with river flat areas, plantings, and shares. It lists existing improvements including a large residence, shop, a hotel like boarding house, and various outbuildings. The notice notes leases, permits, and expected profits from the sale and mentions multiple blocks with different acreages and locations.
A listing from an auctioneer and property salesmen describes unpromoted allotments near a school and suburbanized Gravee versus being subdivided. It details freehold allotments with water, proximity to a railway, and terms including cash balance and instalments. Several properties are offered with varying sizes, prices, and amenities across Queensland listings.
Fragmentary listings show multiple hotel names such as STRAND HOTEL and ABTHGE Proprietor, plus notices for furnished rooms, lets, and commissions. Reads like a busy 19th or early 20th century town advertisement page with lodging, vacancies, and trades, many lines garbled or partial. Entities include Arcadia, Port, Arcata, and Strand Hotel with varied lodging details and rates.
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