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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 30, 1929
Page
13
Debates cover returns to work programmes and preference clauses for returned soldiers in Sugar Award and Telegraph Department roles. Rulings from Arbitration Court urged. resolutions consider housing and hospital support for ex servicemen and women.
Comrade Sherrington leads motions urging extension of the War Service Homes Act to allow soldiers to acquire freehold farms with mortgage support. Delegates back proposals on tariffs, Australian products, digger welfare, preferential polling roles, railway cattle transport, and freehold land, with calls to widen sugar and permit policies. A district carnival plan at Lake Barrine, sugar permits, and railway life for pastoralists feature amid broader league reforms and annual congress decisions.
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