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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 10, 1923
Page
7
Community notices include a surgical obstetric practice ad by Misses Blackmore and Waddell in Cairns with contact info and tender details for painting bids. The mining market shows metal prices and exchanges with copper and tin values. Multiple local notices cover auctions, photography competition, court jurors, and public sales with locations and dates.
Sisters Waddell and Black announce a private hospital on Abbott Street corner Usward section to treat Obetsk Surgical and Medical cases at patients homes with early March opening and appointment scheduling available by telephone at 200. UNregistered ATNA and OTSA listed.
Quotation for the day from any source, the perfect new wig reduced to a pros.
The page lists church services at St Andrew's Presbyterian Heathen Mission and Cars Church with sermon topics and times, plus notices of naturalisation applications for Pietro Poglio and Gaspari of Borers Creek and a general home affairs call for more applicants. It includes dates near March and March 18 with vague references to hospital applications and ward notices.
The letter by Sigma supports the Barron scheme from an engineering standpoint and discusses viable dam sites near Mareeba and Atherton. Cairns and Cairns Town Council are noted for potential standby power roles linking smaller lighting plants to a larger water power project for the Barron scheme.
A garbled OCR piece mixes furniture notes and train chatter with scattered names and places. It mentions inspection dates, a post office reference, rail movements, and partial mentions of factories, farmers, and passengers amid unclear context.
A Mareeba era newspaper item reports Eacham Shire Council facing financial trouble with wages unpaid and insufficient funds. Bank overdrawn, staff at risk, and only the Clerk Engineer and Sanitary staff may be funded temporarily amid contigent liabilities. A separate notice warns motorists of a traffic enforcement day at Torrie with vehicle checks and licences.
A fragmentary notice details defense of Cairoe School of Arts and involvement of Queensland conference figures. It references clerical figures, sermons, and planned church activities with mentions of Sydney costs and a ministerial circuit amid education advocacy.
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