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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 31, 1944
Page
4
The Sisters of Mercy announce Mt St Bernard’s Convent Boarding School Herberton will not reopen until Monday February 7 due to a water shortage affecting operations.
A fragmented piece describes a literary program with poems and scenes featuring actors Albert Dekker and Miss, including a theater tableau from Breston and notable mention of swimming as part of the program. It notes performances and audience reactions from January 2.
Community dance bulletin details a week of events at Adero Dance Palais with Miss Posetti, Bob LeToner, and others awarded prizes. Features include Paddy's Market pairing, George Stone's Trocadero Band, Boy Scout charity dances, and varied extras by Pegg Fails and Don Wilson.
The Rex Theatre presents Laboteur the senea Tonal Alfred Hitchcock drama with Robert Cummings and Otto Kruxer in lead roles. A Children’s Workers League charity concert at Methodist Hall features Mary Smith as compere and a varied programme of dancing, tapping, singing, and Monte Carlo acts.
Saturday will see the official opening of a new Dutch canteen in the city serving Netherlands forces and the merchant service. The renovated building features a large dining room for eight, meals mainly available there, and furnishings in green and brick tones. Facilities include writing rooms, lounge, bar, dance room, kitchen, washrooms, store, billiard table, and gramophone for dance music. A committee led by Etiene de Stoppel oversees the project with local Red Cross support noted by substantial cheques.
A reader reports on Celtuce a new kitchen vegetable that's edible as a salad when young and cooked like celery at two feet tall. It results from a cross of celery and lettuce with small black seeds and requires fertile soil moisture and warmth. Young shoots are eaten raw with salt or mayonnaise while stalks are boiled like asparagus. the plant yields pale green leaves and a mild celery lettuce flavor.
Sydney January 30 Robert Parker of Chillingham near Murwillumbah drowned Friday when his horse slipped crossing the flooded Tweed River at Callingham. His body found downstream. Low-lying streets in Lismore and surrounding roads were flooded yesterday.
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