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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 03, 1916
Page
2
Fragmented OCR lists places and events including Semmes Sete Tyee and Mackay on Seay with mentions of meeting dates, towns like Frater and Spey Pride, and roadways at Spey Pride. It hints at travel routes and local transport on a Wednesday, with various names and places obscured.
A Friday night meeting of the combined school committee discussed a Christmas giving project. They agreed to add to a prior program with a 1 pm start and 25 pm end, under Albertom Bees supervision, while Draper Limited will auction ahead of the event.
Fragmentary OCR item notes a metal market price cue with a £75 down payment and mentions a camper sales context. It reads like a terse classifieds snippet with obscure terms and broken phrases.
An Australian wage earner critique argues wealth concentrates among a few, leaving a limited electoral voice for the many. The piece notes 311 people earning over 450m a year include 11 women, with 3248 others earning four year totals, underscoring a system that favors capital holders over workers. The piece labels the wage earner class as the broader electorate and cautions against plutocratic influence.
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Metemene Bent Pxcienge lists offices in Chasers Towers and branches in Mobowse and Charters Towers Cairme AGENT for Sulphide Corpo see Limited. They seek buyers for Ammiermms Ar erstiteroms Lewd and Copper and invite Cairme Repre wwaree Me T Newton via Mesee Samet Alles amd Som Ltd. They claim to be Yarrene Compeore for shipment to Ekesrolytic Reframe. Port Kemtia pays for ill quid and silver. West dace ia for care with pearl wins of tome No 4 west shows sft fair quality stume Nut wince So 3 went hevel carries.
Fragmented OCR text shows a mining related note with names, dates, and numbers. The readable items include references to stock, claims, and possibly a schedule or register entry. Details are obscured, but the fragment hints at stakes or shares and a dated entry. The overall item reads like a sparse ledger snippet or notice from a mining register.
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At a Cairns Shire Council meeting on Friday night a letter from the Gordonvale Progress Association urged roads, including the new Matgrave road, be formed with a width of less than 30 feet. Councillors claimed roads were 33 feet wide. Dr McPandrmmrted that the Progress Andie five retier are Been redving "Arediley" for were hard pressed for something to write about. On the motion of Ce farmer, seconded by Dr Simmonds, it was decided to reply that the Council's new roads were xy feet wide.
The May financial returns show a substantial rise in customs and postal income. Postal revenue surged due to abnormal mail volumes as many Australians remained abroad. States report gains from higher duties on narcotics and alcohol. War pensions grow, with May adding 2,155 new pensions and overall outlays rising as pensions liberalize. May also saw maternity allowance claims reach 6,670, increasing year-to-date outlays. invalid pensions rise from 22,556 to higher totals.
A summary of a wartime regulation under the War Precautions Act grants the Chief of the General Staff and Deputy Chief Censor authority to order film submissions prior to publication. It empowers officers to enter premises search for and seize films relating to the war or depicting related content, with penalties for owners failing to comply.
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