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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 30, 1928
Page
5
Letters from Gordonvale and Cairns dated October 6 and October 7 1927 praise a tractor sold by A J Draper Ltd Cairns for efficiency and space saving. Thomason confirms satisfaction with a Volt Teacher, noting it meets claimed work and plans a second purchase.
The Deeral notes describe a bene fit dance held at Fig Tree Creek in honor of Mr. Jack Wialfe, who suffered a distressing accident. The event drew a late crowd and notable thanks go to the organizers for a successful financially and socially. Several local residents are mentioned visiting Cairns Hospital and returning home, including Miss L Beattie and Mrs McKay with her daughter Miss FE McKay.
In Watsonville on Sunday the 24th the third and final shoot for the Adair Trophy took place over 500 yards with a 700 yard shoot-off between A Day and Morris. Day won with a fair number of points in poor conditions. Also noted is a farewell social for Mr Goessling the long-time secretary of the School of Arts rifle club.
Mro A. V. Loran chaired a well attended Burdekin Delta Turf Club meeting. A draft balance sheet showed a profit of £25 from the Jones race meeting. The club agreed to a programme committee to arrange race dates and events including a planned hall for a social, while trot racing remains a point of contention with Trotting Owners' Association delegates urging inclusion.
An agricultural note outlines Queensland inkweed control experiments on three year growth and six month growth, testing Roberts pear poison Cooper’s weedicide arsenic solutions and ferrous sulphate. Costs and results vary, with Roberts pear poison most effective but costly. older growth responds to arsenic and ferrous sulphate, while hand methods after burning remain practical for small infestations.
A wartime beauty tip describes mixing Rum and an ounce from the chemist with snail slime compound Day f Glycerine and water to color grey or faded hair. Applied every other day, it supposedly lasts without rubbing off and also soothes itchy scalp while softening and glossing hair.
A fragment notes the first Widget news transmitted to Australia by wireless beam. It mentions the message took HM seconds and a delay from addresser to addressee measured in cue aminuts.
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