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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 04, 1945
Page
4
A long OCR fragment from a Cairns Post page shows a flood of classified ads and sale prompts. The text includes many garbled phrases about items for sale and wants and wants lists with product mentions, vehicle references, household goods, and miscellaneous notices. The readability is poor with numerous broken names and phrases, giving a sense of a busy classified section from June 4 1945.
The document lists multiple public notices including auctions and tenders from various Australian departments. It references temperate property auctions, sale of stock and stockyards, tender invitations, and monthly periods for submissions. It mentions authorities such as the Commonwealth Department of Works and related agencies and outlines procedures for submitting offers and conditions of sale.
A rugged Arctic outpost stage show blends romance action and novelty with a packed Vallentown style program. Enticing acts include oldtime theatre music masks and comedy amid a supper by ladies committee and a grand Euchre night. An auction and real estate sale closes the event with bids and property listings.
Fragments describe sailors Sam Willines Ras Gould and Walter Emerant in Bougainville areas with mentions of Able Seaman C V Murray. References to parents in Cairne Emerson and cakeauert, plus boat Stee Suber and Alice Maner arriving amid ongoing operations.
A well attended bridge afternoon was held at St John s Club Rom e for the Church of England Guilds. Prizes for the highest score went to Mrs F Bradford and the hidden number was won by Mrs A Scott. Door prize was claimed by E Weing and cake prize by Mrs B Metaiyre. Other prizes were collected by Mesdames CH Crossland NPL Draper Palmer and Poulson. Hostesses for the next event will be Mesdames G Blessas F Bradford and S DE Bailey.
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