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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 10, 1939
Page
3
Canberra expenditure figures released June 8 show costs rising beyond 419 million pounds. The report cites an initial 19,413,380 pounds plus an additional 1,411,396 pounds for losses tied to the Australian Capital Territory project, as reported by ministerial officials in Canberra.
Canberra June 8 Defence Minister announced to the House of Representatives that Australia militia strength has risen to 76,000. He said normal recruiting had resumed and attributed the increase to renewed enlistment efforts and population growth, noting gains in New South Wales and other states.
Daily editions of the Post and Herald can be obtained in Cairns Innisfail and Tableland towns with distribution coverage noted for these regions.
A Sussex innkeeper Mr Alfred Hockley found a large brown paper parcel outside the Winds Cram Inn near East Grinstead. He heard a buzzing sound and, fearing a bomb, dumped water on the parcel and tossed it into a field to prevent an explosion. A customer witnessed the commotion as the scare abated and the inn remained intact.
Rear Admiral Richard Byrd told the House subcommittee studying a $4,000 preliminary Antarctic expedition appropriation that portions of Antarctica in the western hemisphere are covered by the Monroe Doctrine. He said the mission would cost about $1,000,000, involve three ships and a sizable crew, depart in October and return in six months, with supply plans for two.
A bar patron reports a swarm of bees wrapped for transport after dawn. A witch figure appears in the scene as bees are carefully rescued from the field and brought to safety for the night.
London dispatch notes a Cunliffe-Owen Flying Wing set for official trials at Martlesham. The design claims a 4000 lb payload, 195 mph cruise, 225 mph top, and room for 15 passengers or 35 troops in a broad wedge fuselage. It contrasts with conventional planes and recalls the older circular ricocleplane concept.
London buses on the 44 routes fitted with roof radio transmitters flash timing data to Victoria station headquarters. If scaled, 4500 buses could stream continuous records to the head office. The piece also notes magnetic street signals tested in Sweden to regulate side-street entries and an Arizona desert farming plan to commercialize desert crops. It covers salvage of Humber wrecks by a German firm, with British firms lacking suitable lifting craft, and reports on Doukhobor leader Peter Verigin and migration to Canada, detailing a turbulent reign and deportation battles.
A new burglar alarm was tested in London and proved effective, triggering automatic police contact. It warned of entry via windows or doors, dialled a 90 minute code, and led to the capture of a burglar at Leytonstone premises of R. W. and L. Puddicombe.
Brisbane June Murray appointed under the Official Inquiries Evidence Act to thoroughly investigate the financial affairs of the Incapacitated and Wounded Sailors and Soldiers Association of Queensland. The inquiry focuses on art unions carnivals and any similar fund raising methods to determine proper use of funds and control over disbursement.
In Canberra a report mocks a Japanese official claiming Japanese taste for fat men and mutton. The Consul-General Me Akiyama supposedly remarked that fat men offend Japan while tall figures please them, calling the jokes ridiculous and misinterpreted by Australians.
June social at the CWA rest room featured euchre and bridge with prizes to Miss Hume and Mrs. Lander, men’s prizes to Mr. S. Ross, H. Hume, and Mr. Hartman. Russell Heads branch met with Mrs. Ross in chair, planning the June 19 AGM. Mrs. Hume honored by Presbyterians, visitors from Brisbane and Cairns noted, Kanimbla tourists toured Mulgrave and Russell rivers.
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