02 Mar 1944
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 02, 1944
Page
1
A dense set of classified ads listing shipping lines, agents, and suppliers. It notes Adelaide Steamship Co Limited with contact lines, plus multiple firms offering car parts, radio and tyre services, generators, belts, tractors, agricultural gear, and general auctions. The page reads as a mixed commercial directory from a port area with numerous phone lines and product offerings.
A mixed page of classified ads offers items and services for sale or purchase. Listings include hardware, furniture, gramophones, retriever pups, cattle and dairy farming equipment, apples for sale with prices, firewood, and various requests for goods and work. Names and contact boxes appear throughout for Cairns and Atherton area buyers.
A commodious reading room with the latest newspapers periodicals and magazines is available to School of Arts subscribers along with a circulating library of 12 000 books. Subscription options include 0 per year 19 per half year or S per quarter or Gd per week. Office of the Secretary J Burman next School of Art Building Shields Street. Also notices on indoor games tennis gear and various products for sale at Whittick's and Moynahan's.
F R ce Auctioneers and Property Forwarding and General Agents operate as a firm offering auctioneering and property forwarding services with general agency functions. The listing notes their role in handling estates and sales, targeting clients seeking liquidation and movement of assets through organized auctions.
Nes Estate Institutes presents properties for sale at Abbott Street Cala and surrounding areas. Details and inquiries available on request. For prospective buyers, contact the estate office for full particulars and terms.
Advertisements offer milk run handlers, housemaids, governesses, tutors, and clerical roles. Positions include milk run tasks £3 monthly, or £30 monthly for extended duties. housekeeping and carefor two persons. typist and secretary posts. and electricity fitters. Apply through National Service Officer Cairns with age and qualifications. Local firms listed: W Smith and Co Accountants and Maryborough Walker agency.
A meeting of parents and guardians of children at Mareeba State Rural School will be held in St Georges Hall on Friday, 10 March at 8 pm. An attendance of at least thirty is required. PF Tansey, Head Teacher, will oversee the election of the committee.
Gentleman in government position seeks furnished rooms and board in a private home near Rex Theatre. Excellent references required. Inquiries to Box HG2, this office. Ring 77.
A stream of classifieds seeks furnished flats and rooms to rent in Cairns plus immediate vacancies. Also found are multiple loss notices for ration books false teeth a Cow with rings and a machine part reward offered for recoveries via box references and local offices.
Local salon ads promote permanent waves and hair settings at Dorence Salon and Ladies Hairdressing in Alberton and Salem areas. Listings include multiple addresses on Lake Street and Main Street with phone numbers for appointments and privacy emphasis. The notices invite women for hair waving, non electric patters, and related styling services.
A fragmented item notes a dispute titled Reo Sue Unincloved Ton Gels with references to City and Gate House and a % mark. The readable text repeats the same phrases with unclear context and no clear outcome or dates.
General notices warn of Monday closing and an upcoming poison train operation across sections from Cairns Goonadi Cairns Oak Forest Wongabel. Cane growers in Hambledon and Mulgrave Mill areas urged to notify Field Officers or Cane Pest Board Officials to aid in large scale pest control if needed. Frank Ferguson, new secretary, referenced under Elections Acts 1915 to 1943 Section 34.
Notice announces Cairns electoral district nomination on Friday March third for members of the Legislative Assembly. Includes public warning about mortar firing practice on March 3, 1944, with danger areas along Evelyn Highway, Sna ke Creek, and Sluice Creek and instructions to report unexploded bombs. Several local auctioneers and institutions listed in the notice.
A fragmented notice from Exabiietess announces an auction of property with a mailing address P.O. Box 7155 3. The readable text provides limited details about the sale and responsible contact.
Public notices announce a five percent rate discount for Cairns ratepayers paying on Thursday March 2 1944. Also a writ of election for The Tableland electoral district with nomination on March 3 and polling on April 15 at multiple polling places including Cairns Herberton and Malanda, Returning Officer Power.
The document from the Governor commands the writ of election guiding nomination of candidates. Nomination papers are to be completed by moon on Friday the event of the election on a day in April. Polling places may be appointed by February twenty eighth and can be cancelled by Friday the last day. The Atherton court house is the designated venue for attendance at the nomination proceedings.
A list of polling places across Atherton and surrounding towns including Barron, Einasleigh, Emerald, Mareeba, Mossman, and Yorkey’s. District markers mention locations like Tableland, Barron, Y, and various creeks with scattered typographical errors. Dated February 28, Sutherland.
Delegates reported on February 24 that the Queerah meatworks should open and that food shortages, particularly potatoes and onions, be referred to Civilian Food Distribution. Col Watson promised action against firms unfairly distributing bacon and urged quicker release of time. The Brisbane council seeks £10,000 for a soldier hostel and a State conference will invite provincial councils. Municipal markets face broad support with some opposition to a cooperative, workers from Gordonvale seek council affiliation, and youth movement plans plus price fixing concerns are aired.
The INGHAM NOTES report 1143 points of rain for the week ending Wednesday and 2662 points for February, with 232,032 tons of cane at two mills risking £25,203 loss if a 2d reduction were applied. The Herbert River Jockey Club awarded £120 Breeders Plate prize, and plans to hold the Face meeting at Townsville's Cluden course due to transport and petrol shortages. Local councils back a north Townsville conference at Tully on May 12 amid venue and accommodation concerns.
Domenico Gallo Lilley Grose Long solicitors for applicant Atherton 1 Eugenio Michele Raso Italian born Nocera Capp Albany region eight years in Australia now Tolgs Queensland farmer intends to apply under Nationality Act 1920 1938.
The article warns the sugar industry faces a dire year with export opportunities to Britain and rising demand. It urges immediate mobilization of manpower, spare parts, and equipment to sustain planting and crushing, arguing for top-priority status and full support from government to secure 1945-46 production and export prospects.
Deeral P.O. writes in February 1944 letter to defend a Cane Growers’ view, arguing that small and middle-class farmers suffer under monopolies and wage suppression while big farmers align with reactionary politics. He calls for unity of workers, farmers, and small businessmen against exploitation to secure fair prices and living standards.
Unpaid voluntary roof spotters mainly wives of Canberra officials have been on strike since the war began. They seek a small shelter from the weather as arrangements are made to avoid bringing shelter from Sydney.
Rear-Admiral Cochrane of the Navy Bureau of Ships says the U S fleet will equal all others combined by war’s end and that sustaining that relative strength afterward is the best guarantee of world peace. He notes production targets and urges government honesty in sugar industry policy amid wartime shortages.
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