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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 29, 1946
Page
3
The piece argues that postwar reemployment of veterans is slow due to retained controls and red tape. It urges rapid removal of essential restraints, calls out government evasions, and links petrol and beer rationing to industrial revival. It stresses restoring basic supplies and ending wartime controls to enable peaceful recovery.
In British shipyards, strong progress toward wartime output is reported with a target near 700000 tons under construction or launching. Lloyds and registers show continued construction, including vessels destined for Australia and New Zealand trade, while efficiency and capacity rise despite repair challenges. The plan emphasizes maintaining ship design and research for Britain's economy and wartime needs.
Konstantin Giorgov leads a ceremony awarding Stalin prizes valued at 100 units to distinguished recipients. The event underscores the regime’s emphasis on celebrated achievements and recognized contributions.
The Federal Liberal executive begins its meeting with debates on a national policy including profit sharing in industry and a pension theme at 54 shillings per week. Leaders look to Mr R G Menzies for foreign policy guidance and on uniform taxation. Delegates attend from all states.
A fragmented OCR note lists rolling mail closing times for Townsville and Ayr with stray letters and unclear terms. The legible elements mention Wednesday and Tuesday closings, but most content is indecipherable. It appears to be a postal timing update with entries or codes.
A subscriber notes the Australiasia press service providing overseas news. The snippet highlights that the paper receives international items and wires them for local readers, reflecting how distant events reach the home desk.
Innisfail reports unsettled weather with 1 inch 37 points of rain in 48 hours ending 9 am Monday and a monthly total of 2 inches 43 points. Goondi Mill manager L M Smith says head office advised paying an additional 4/3 per ton on the 1945 cane crop, bringing total payments to 35/2.
Sporadic weekend rainfall across the Tableland recorded Atherton 72 points Ravenshoe 62 Her ber ton 57 Malanda 23 points in four hours to 9 am yesterday along with Forsayth 66 Einasleigh 39 Mt. Surprise 75 and Babinda 157 points along the Eth Bridge line.
State member for Herbert Mr S Theodore forwards a Department of Public Lands letter to Johnstone Shire Council. The letter notes the council desires allotments at Cowley Beach and Etty Bay and says the matter has been referred to the Land Commissioner for an early report. Our Innisfail correspondent reports.
In reply to advocacy for an Assistant Organiser of Adult Education for North Queensland, the Minister for Works and the Minister for Public Instruction announce the Public Service Commissioner will soon call for applications. The position will be based in Townsville.
Innisfail reports strong water demand for its reticulation scheme amid muggy conditions. December treated and pumped 11,402,800 gallons, up 989,600 from November. Two new connections bring total reticulated area to 1,203 as filtration plant runs satisfactorily per Johnstone Shire Council overseer G. Scott.
Rail services have resumed normal operations on the southern lines. The mail train from Brisbane arrived in Cairns on Sunday night via the coastal route, with the Cairns mail leaving at 10 am and a second division following. All other Cairns services are back on schedule, according to District Superintendent T D McLoughlin.
The Divisional Meteorological Bureau issued a noon yesterday forecast for the next 24 hours predicting scattered showers mainly light with local moderate amounts in tropical sections. Expect scattered variable rains and local thunder in the Peninsula and western State as systems move eastward over the next two to three days with moderate southeast winds along the central coast and mainly east to northeast winds elsewhere. Districts report Porter rains and thunderstorms in Carpentaria and Peninsula with northeast to northerly winds, North Coast sees coastal showers with moderate southeast winds, inland rains and thunder with northeast winds.
A test Corsair crash near Windsor in Sydney morning left Lt J Griffin with an oil leak and the pilot escaping after the aircraft tore through wires fences and brush. He suffered head cuts as the plane burst into flames, narrowly avoiding a fatal impact.
In Canberra on September 14 Australia and Britain discussed a plan for empire wide cooperation in atomic energy and munitions development. The proposal envisions shared personnel and information, standardised arms, and decentralised Dominion production to sustain war effort and aid postwar peace. The British mission stresses no new war is intended, but preparations advance.
The last flight over The Hump marks the end of a perilous air corridor from Calcutta to Kunming and onward to Hong Kong Shanghai and Chungking. Since July 1944 the Dakotas of No 52 Squadron delivered supplies to beleaguered China despite severe weather and Japanese fighters. The route operated twice daily Kunming to Hong Kong and twice weekly Kunming to Shanghai via Chungking.
Sir William Webb the Chief Justice will head Australia's delegation to the International Military Court to be formed in Tokio early next month. He leaves Brisbane Tuesday night by plane with Justice Mansfield and associate Mr R Mac Donald accompanying him as assistant prosecutor.
London dispatch notes a consignment arrived in Portland after delays since January. Distribution of the gift begins on January 28 amid transport difficulties and official oversight at Plymouth.
An Associated Press dispatch from Shanghai reports China acting to bar foreign ships as part of government moves. The measure aims to protect national interests and assert control over maritime traffic amid tensions with international counterparts.
Pacific Islands report by a New York Times correspondent in Washington details AAP coverage dated January 7. The item notes the sourcing from the Times amid ongoing U.S. political reporting.
Sydney January 23. If a recommendation by the A.C.T.U. is adopted by waterfront unions, five Kinaeet of the Cre would advise twenty two Sydney waterfront unions on Wednesday. A meeting with waterfront workers would discuss the plan and potential action.
A report notes agreed terms amid delays as Australian authorities address tons of reliable goods awaiting shipment. Officials clarified commitments and timelines while industry representatives urge speed to relieve stockpiles.
Hermit Park ALP decisions to run seven candidates in Townsville and back three Communist hopefuls ends the chance of reconciliation with official Labour. A Hermit Park member says they have cut their throats while Labour plans to intensify organization and field an opposition municipal ticket. The rift stems from the aid to Russia movement three years ago.
Canberra reports Queensland at 1 071 000 and national population at 7 322 000 based on the 1833 census. State figures include New South Wales 2 485 000 Victoria 2 006 000 South Australia 625 000 West Australia 484 000 Tasmania 247 000.
Signalman at Footscray Railway Station found 21 year old Harry Saunders of Yarraville with his right arm severed after a passing train cut it off. He lay on a bench in the waiting room, apparently unaware of the injury, as passersby and officials attended him.
Paul Wilson Brookes aged 24 died at Saint Mary's Hospital Paddington after a life marked by cricket fame as a 16 year old who bowled Bradman at Lord's practice nets. He was wounded in Italy in 1945 and later served in RAF and Coldstream Guards before his injury left him bedbound.
Zionist groups condemn British Foreign Secretary E. Bevin for labeling Transjordan as an independent state and describe Britain’s action as a unilateral partition of historic Palestine.
Paris notes finance and food headlines with reference to M. Felix and an January transmission. The fragment hints at economic or market items tied to Paris and London, but readable details are limited. The item shows AP dispatch style and a crosscity economic focus without a complete events outline.
Milmerran, almost isolated since last Wednesday, regained rail service today as a ballast train repaired the Toowoomba line. Stores are depleted but rationing not needed. Road routes remain blocked via the usual path, detouring via Leyburn. Dawson Valley traffic between Rannes and Thangool resumed Sunday night after suspension, with no serious line damage aside from a Callide to Biloela bridge shifted about 12 inches out of alignment.
Brisbane January 28 firemen labored twelve hours partly underground at the Queensland Co-Operative Milling Company wharf to locate a blaze traced to a wooden foundation strip laid when the mill was built about 60 years ago. Fire crews drilled through concrete as water streams targeted the suspected boiler area.
Eight month old Barry Wolsey holidaying with parents fell from a cot at Sandgate and became entangled by the neck. A doctor arrived too late. the infant was dead upon arrival.
Thirteen hours before doors open, 108 Lexing enthusiasts form a queue outside Alan Kippax's sports store to buy ringside tickets for the Patrick Burns fight. One thousand nine hundred nineteen ringside seats are being sold tonight, with two thousand more available tomorrow morning for Saturday's bout. Pictures of the fight are expected to be released to the forces 25 hours after the bout.
Senator R Keane clarified that the beer quota would not rise by 25 percent. Breweries were authorized to move one week of supply from February to January, February to March, and March to February, making February and March quotas normal. The post March position remains undecided.
The Canegrowers Engineering and Old Co of Innisfail asked Johnstone Shire Council for permission to erect a foundry on a site facing South Johnstone Road. Council approved subject to compliance with Building Operations and Timber Building Materials Control Act provisions.
January 18 1946 Canberra reports the federal Cabinet creates a planning committee to study development of Northern Australia in cooperation with Queensland and Western Australia. Members include Dr H Coombs Dr A Richardson and others from Interior Works and CSIR with transport water and irrigation as key focus areas.
In Adelaide on January 28 the Australian championship finals crowned J Bromwich (NSW) over D Paile in a five set men’s singles 5-7 6-3 7-5 3-6 6-2. Miss Fitch and Miss Bevis (NSW) won the women's doubles 9-7 6-4 over Mrs Bolton and Mrs Long. Miss O Grant (NSW) beat Miss N Reid (NSW) in girls junior singles 6-2 6-0. F Herringe and Miss N Reid defeated F Seegman and Miss P Parkinsit 6-4 10-8 in junior mixed doubles. Junior doubles saw F Hercinge and G Worthington (NSW) defeat D Bie and L Anderson (Vic) 6-4 7-5. The mixed doubles final was postponed due to Bromwich’s cramps and will be played tomorrow.
Brisbane notes describe a fierce AWU campaign against the Ginger Group and Communist influence in unions. It highlights calls to drive Communists out of unions, hints at broader labor unrest, and cites leaders like J Bukowski, M O'Brien, and Clarrie Fallon advocating unity, a 40 hour week, and stronger arbitration, alongside rising unemployment and discontent among returned servicemen adjusting to postwar work.
An elderly woman, Mie Alice Foot aged 76, was burned to death at Castle Mountain near Quirindi after a dawn fire engulfed her four room wooden house adjoining the post office. Her nephew George Foot 46 and neighbor Sydney Uren attempted rescue but flames blocked entry. Riga police were alerted after James Uren telephoned, but by arrival the post office and residence were gutted and containment did not save Miss Foot.
Canberra reports that after heated talks the Water for Transport scheme led by Mr E J Ward and Harold Clapp was accepted by Premiers. The plan funds half the cost, about £104 million, with Queensland bearing a large share and extra costs for new lines. Unification efforts aim to rehabilitate Queensland railways postwar strains, with Commonwealth agreeing to back the Great Western line proposal over Clapp plans to run a westward route through Charters Towers and Hughenden.
Queensland authorities push extensions from the main limes rewning to Dajarra and Leagreach while Towneville Duirra section to be tackled. They seek minimal delay with widespread support, rejecting a coastal defence line proposal and linking work to the main conver sq scheme.
Bombay January 27 AAP reports that demonetisation measures will require exchange of high value legal tender notes. Notes worth 800 rupees or more will be exchanged throughout the country after the ordinance's promulgation in January. The move targets large cash holdings and aims to curb illicit funds. The article notes the total value of notes to be exchanged reaches £63,750,000.
The text notes impatience for ships to bring migrants to Australia and cites Minister Calwell saying over 400,000 uniformed workers must be placed in jobs before mining income. It mentions welcoming nominated persons and skilled artisans for manufacturing or expanded industries, while acknowledging uncertainties and transport issues hindering migration and a possibly overly cautious federal stance.
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