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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 30, 1950
Page
8
A Sydney couple praises Cairns hospitality and hotel cleanliness while noting footpaths in disrepair and limited parks with Sunday concerts. They remark on tropical fruit and express overall pleasant impressions, signed by Mr and Mrs F W Hackett, Sydney, June 26.
A Cairns reader under the pen name Temporary Dweller laments ongoing squalor in substandard housing. The letter argues for affordable homes, gas and materials, and fewer intrusive controls to ease families’ daily struggles and shield children from hardship.
A Cairns letter to the editor argues that North Queenslanders support national and economic security through tourism and shipping. The writer criticizes attitudes toward visiting ships Manoora and Manunda, the plimsoll line, and the economic imbalance between Cairns and Sydney or Melbourne. The piece questions regional sacrifice for national interests and calls for fair treatment of locals. Dated June 28, Cairns.
A Russian born American professor claims the USSR has imported a million Chinese workers and thousands of students in a long term drive to merge Soviet and Chinese empires. He cites Spector reports and Pravda as sources and discusses goals of boosting literacy, manpower, and influence to ready for potential war. The piece notes Soviet aims include cross border population shifts and cultural exchange to strengthen ties with China and deter Western powers.
An AP dispatch describes migrants settling around Beersheba after Israel’s statehood, building wooden homes in straight rows, farming barley and produce, and creating a new community near the Jordanian frontier. Bedouin security and self-administered courts frame daily life as Jewish pioneers push toward a thriving outpost.
A fragmented report lists tensions between Freemasonry leaders and government aligned Labour factions. It notes calls for reform, mentions Rt. Wor. Bro. Shand and Rt. Wor. Bro. Ure, and describes debate over governance, hospital boards, and district lodge influence amid economic concerns.
The Herberton Shire Council meets with reports on finances and roads, discusses avocado industry shift after citrus collapse, approves seating and equipment for the reaper room, and notes road grading projects. Premier Hanlon sends jubilee notice. water and depot matters are referred to overseer.
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