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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 31, 1931
Page
6
At Linton Indiana a mine explosion killed twenty nine miners and nine were rescued yesterday leaving a grim toll. Rescue teams searched the shaft for missing workers as officials investigated cause and safety lapses.
A quoted Dental Journal of Australia letter mocks a consumer crushed by myriad taxes and laws. The author ribbed government and charities for squeezing funds, claiming financial ruin while railing against broad legal and civic demands. The piece underscores public frustration with policy and taxation.
A reader defends free speech while criticizing the Inkerman irrigation go-slow policy and cites Hansard on a Labor MLA proposing river punishment for workers. The letter questions cost estimates of £131,000 versus half a million spent and ponders jury impact under Vac Victis.
Ipswich correspondent notes the new electrical plant will supply two phase and three phase current for motors and machinery, aligning with the Townsville workshops example of modern equipment. It highlights expected maintenance cost reductions and the push to upgrade Ipswich works.
In London on January 28 the debate on the Trades Disputes and Trades Unions Bill resumed in the House of Commons. Mr Winston Churchill attacked the measure while Sir William Cripps defended it promising safeguards against union power. The division showed a large majority for the bill with Conservatives abstaining.
The letter argues for locating a secondary sawmill at Kuranda instead of Tolga to utilize Barron Falls and Mareeba hydro schemes. It cites timber resources across Tableland areas, reduced log transport distances, and potential revenue for rail and timber sectors if Kuranda becomes a timber hub.
February insect activity affects sugar cane and maize with grey back cockchafers in mid growth and Rhypada beetles injuring shoots. Soil stirring aids Pheicole ants, while leaf eating grass worm outbreaks prompt removal of dead hearts and spraying with arsenic compounds where severe.
Queensland readers report long lasting relief from backache after using Doan's Backache Kidney Pills. Mrs. W. Gilmore of Cairns credits two bottles with curing severe pain that previously hindered movement. She notes no recurrence eighteen years after the cure and cautions buyers to ensure they obtain Doan's from Foster-Mellon Co. in Sydney.
A parachute that opens without a long fall was successfully tested in Lisbon with a sandbag acting as a passenger to evaluate the system’s deployment and descent characteristics.
Innisfail Chamber of Commerce president R W Moore calls for dredging the Johnstone River noting years since last work and stressing the river port steamer Innisfail still serves Townsville and freight from Brisbane Sydney and Melbourne amid the Goondi mill sugar season.
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