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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 11, 1913
Page
1
The Gairas Post reports on a local Hinterland event with limited readable facts. No clear dates or named entities are identifiable but the piece signals a community focus and ongoing coverage of regional matters.
Shipping movements show Kuranda and Palmer weekly departures from Townsville to Cooktown and back, with A U S N steamers serving Cairns, Townsville, Bowen, Mackay, Port Alma, Brisbane, and southern sails to Sydney and Melbourne. Returns imply varied departures and weekly cycles with Melbourne and Sydney arrivals and Brisbane onward legs.
Writs Mackay Sunday morning and Port Alma Sunday sight. Leave Brisbane Wednesday. Offers at Sydney Friday and Melbourne next Monday. Melbourne arrival Wednesday and Sydney Friday. Townsville to Melbourne March 15. Bombala sails Townsville to Melbourne.
FEARNLEY 4& CO reports Changsha leaves Cairns for Hong Kong and Wim to Thursday Island and Port Darwin in mid March. Perederich Der Grome sails Sydney to London in March. Guthrie and Lime due from Hong Kong by Thursday. Wowehtum from Niembarg due around March 1. Teiyuma and O Lines to call at Ham Kong via ports on April 3.
An interview excerpt discusses development of the Territory with mining potential, challenged by Chinese involvement and pearling issues. The speaker defends white settlement, notes government farming efforts, and mentions natives and mission stations while advocating gradual white-led development and white diversification of industry.
The article notes farmers prosper with sugar cotton and tobacco along the Ro per River and inland routes. It argues against establishing freezing works at Darwin, endorsing a Katherine River site with ample grass and water to ship produce by steamer Sturt for freight efficiency.
The article discusses lime rich soils and the need to lime cold or acid soils to improve nitrogen fixing plants. It notes lime application rates and timing, advising periodic liming every five years and adjustments for nitrogen supply and crop needs.
The article discusses applying burnished lime stone carefully, evaluating lime stone demand, and cost factors. It notes frequent delivery by carload at about one dollar per ton and highlights profitable sugar industry developments in the Hawaiian Islands, including new beating systems and evaporation capacity gains and the impact on water purification and machinery efficiency.
Dr. Norria reports advantages of the Kopke centrifugal separator for sugar processing. Benefits include heat savings from 3 to 4 tonnes per ton of sugar, reduced losses from fermentation, lower washing energy, and less juice on hand easing weekend factory shutdowns. Four machines operated at Kabuka last season with more planned.
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