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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 23, 1921
Page
8
The meeting approves a debt payment of £921 8s 3d and discusses other debtor accounts. It reviews a water line deviation near Campbell's site affecting land and notes residents' complaints while seeking authority to pursue remaining claims.
Council discusses selling parts of section 1 and 2 to Mrs Keown, purchasing remaining land, and transferring lands to the Lands Department. Road works at Hitch Conn, Sion, McKenie and Beatrice River areas proceed with estimates and approvals. Reports cover bridge repairs, fence removals, drainage, and overruns in multiple divisions plus financial provisions and debentures.
The fragment outlines a boarding setup for scholars with a focus on daily routines, distance from the city, and accommodations including electric provisions and animal care details. It mentions the Scheel Home and eight cows, hinting at rural schooling practices and logistical constraints of housing students nearby.
A listed lineup features Beth Nasi Ais divorce and Robert Tarraa. Sally Tateeth’s loss of a husband and a remarriage thread. Street theater includes Nita Wright on violin, Baby Marie Osborne, and substitutes amid a Gaumont and Australasian program. It notes Aurora Mardi ganian’s Auction of Souls and Run Mow the Deep, with four years of hardship, plus tales from Armenian history and a German capture.
The Tayloe-Coleman Company touring Queensland presents Aladdin and Little Miss Muffet for four nights at the Palace Theatre. The program features new specialty numbers, and a skilled chorus including Flossie Walsh and Sydney Carr with a bewitching pantomime style as guests from Sydney.
In Brisbane on June 22, contract surveyors demanded higher pay and longer hours, reporting a 10 percent wage rise and an extra 10 hours weekly. They claimed a cabinet decision last year was unfavorable and pledged to refile the issue with the cabinet.
Fragmented report cites Sydney T Robinson questioning National leadership and an Overseas Settlement Committee denial of Australia’s charges. It notes a London dispatch on June 22 about British and Australian government actions and a small number of men returning to England for personal reasons among hundreds previously overseas.
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