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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 12, 1928
Page
14
Brisbane broadcast features morning and afternoon sessions from 10 to 7 30 with music talks weather and market reports. Readers learn about school holidays itineraries to Canberra and a London British Industries Fair display including Monart ware and jade glass with gifts for the festive season.
A weekly social roundup notes unsettled weather and ongoing sales in major stores with strong emphasis on winter reductions for women and expanding men’s department activity. It highlights the Queensland Art Society winter show at the Public Library in William Street with Daphne Mayo’s sculpture and Salient works by Sir John and Lady Goodwin and guest Miss Hine Haycock visiting the exhibition.
The United States will dispatch pontoons to Halifax Harbour at Britain’s request to raise the cruiser Dauntless, recently wrecked on a reef off Washington July 10. The action aims to salvage the vessel and determine remaining salvage options.
Sydney Fay 10 reports pilot J Rockledge and passenger W Gade dum injured when their plane crashed at Alexandria yesterday. They were slightly improved today.
Perth July 10 state the tender from Wyndham meat works for supplying corned beef in tins to the Defence Department of Australia has been accepted. The contract calls for delivery of all beef in Sydney.
In London on July 1 Parliament debated the United States proposal for a multilateral renunciation of war. Sir Austen Chamberlain said the government could not state when it would reply and affirmed efforts to hasten dispatch of the response to the U S note.
Canberra announces in the Commonwealth Gazette that regulations under the Commonwealth Bankruptcy Act will be published this week. State control ends July 31 and Commonwealth control begins the following day.
In an wartime style dialogue an anxious husband praises his wife’s youth while noting her skin has brightened since she began using Creme Charmosan. The scene highlights a white jar on the dressing table, a promise of renewed glow and beauty with a price tag of 2/6 per size.
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