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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 11, 1929
Page
12
Innisfail district plans a land sale offering prices from £5 per acre. The organiser notes varying terms for allotments and cattle farming suitability. Further details and conditions are to be announced.
London reports Scotland Yard investigates Captain Barker now in Holloway jail. An application for her release is set for tomorrow. Records show Barker is her real name and that at 22 she married Smith, leaving two children. The Evening Standard cites more fragments about Pearce-Crosh aliases and alleged liaisons involving Arkell Smith and Har old Leach in Cobham Hall.
The readable OCR fragment references Carmen and Abbott with a partial date 8/3/29 and hints at a Traffee Act context. It shows a troubled, garbled line about aging and cultivation and mentions names Forte pe carmen and Cairns.
Perth reports a government move to raise juror pay from 10 shillings to 20 shillings in criminal and coroner courts with higher rates for goldfield districts and the north west. Jurors will also be reimbursed traveling fares to the court.
Reports say dredges are being installed on R Cretk with tin concessions expanding. Heavy rain slowed work, boggy ground disrupted transport, and workers camped near the town. Engineer McNab notes condition of Sasiths Creek area as inspections continue. Mt Garnet Race Club plans an April meeting to showcase an improved course and likely races.
Monthly return for February 1929 listing Cooktown Mount Amos Rossville Shipton's Rat Finnegan Batavia Alta values in pounds and shillings. Totals show 1 ton 13 cwt 6 qr and £215 18s 7d.
Sydney Labour Council seeks inquiry into what some call a frame up in the Jacob Johnson case. The council says the Federal Ministry will investigate his return and plans to ask the Prime Minister to implement the pledge.
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