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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 23, 1943
Page
2
A ration for Nitrate of Soda has been declared and all orders must be placed on or before June 26. Clients of A C F and Shirleys Fertilizers Ltd should contact Mr Brennan at the Cairns Office or by phone 2507. Orders for Innisfail area delivery must be lodged with Mr E Venables.
The council noted electors completed at about £138 cost with 89 percent turnout and decided not to penalize non-voters given population movements. It discussed farm-road repairs funding, the Dunbulan district, a possible farmers' labor proposal, and requests for road work from Eureka Tobsyne to Portion 49. Authorities review rate accounts and future payment arrangements. The Sunnymount road crossing and railway funding were debated, with past work recognized and further costs considered. A temporary school building permit was granted on Park Reserve No. 73, and the Mareeba District Invalid and Old Age Pensioners League was offered free transfer of housing grant funds for cottages.
The council discusses election legality under the Local Government Act, review of alien labor for tobacco leaf work, and potential changes to bonuse for dingoes scalp collection. ministerial consultation on security and manpower. Members approve records and praise staff after triennial elections. attendees include Brown, Nicholls, Gardner, Prunes, Davies, Payne, and officials Arnold and Arnold.
In Canbeera on June 2 the Senate plans to examine financial policy as part of a move to seek Mr Reading's views before debate on upcoming legislation. The discussion references former bank head Sir Robert Gibson and the Scullin Government era economic issues arising from the depression.
Mareeba notes cover the monthly Mareeba Ambulance Committee meeting with presiding Mr C Olson and mentions donations from the Old Age Pensioners ward, forwarding instalments for a Chevrolet, and detailed May receipts. It also notes the Woolworthata Shire Council health report praising Mareeba water quality, water testing plans, and a subsidy discussion to aid immunisation of Mareeba children, plus a foodstuffs note on cornflakes transport restrictions to Queensland.
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