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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 29, 1926
Page
11
A long meditation on Western influence in the Pacific, examining how missionaries traders officials and navigators shape indigenous peoples. It argues for education public health and child welfare, warning that benevolence may mask disruption and urging patient social reconstruction amid rising global contact.
A Calcutta Statesman letter argues faith healing has grown from odd practice to a widespread movement with magnetism and crowds. It cautions unqualified healers can harm, stresses faith healing complements medicine, and warns against overreliance on will or religious rhetoric to cure all ills.
Mr. Edmond Jarvis, Government Entomologist, discusses Borer infested cane and the economic value of introduced Tachinids, noting potential sugar gains per acre and the need for careful parasite management to avoid burning cane. He cites Hawaii releases in 1910 as precedent and urges continued study and cautious application.
Twenty thousand women from across Britain gathered at the Victoria Embankment and marched on Albert Hall under General Flora Dimmonds. Police and mounted guards prevented disruption as protesters clashed with counterdemonstrators including Fascisti and unemployed men. Flags, banners, and olive branches accompanied the rally against strikes, while crowds jeered at miners wives on horseback and debated the merits of various industrial leaders’ causes.
A nine month sentence in the second division was recorded in London’s Old Bailey for promoter Trafford Hewitt, an investment banker from Streatham, linked to fraudulent conversions and a scheme with the Hevesi society. Details note Hewitt’s prior positions and implied belief in his caused outcomes, while a separate tale recounts a bank note discrepancy solved by examining obverse and reverse sides revealing a two dollar misprint. The report blends Hewitt’s criminal case with a curious currency curiosity from an Australian tour.
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