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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 11, 1944
Page
1
Public notices and classified items show a flood of WANTED and FOR SALE listings from a 1940s era newspaper page. The ads request machinery, furniture, tools, household items, and services, with boxes and contact notes. Names, places, and prices appear in scattered form amid broken OCR text and miscellaneous offers.
Fragmentary OCR reveals a note on lost books at a shopping centre and a public tender inviting bids for a hydraulic tip truck with full crane apparatus. Mentions names Kath Johnson Willis James Brown and local addresses including 191 Laurel Street and Tully. Auction or reward context appears mixed with maintenance and supply language.
The readable portion mentions Sheridan and a public notice atmosphere with growers urged to protect crops and await follow up candidates. The fragmentary source limits identifying persons, places, dates, or concrete actions for a coherent two-line card.
Australian Military Forces issue public warning on bombing practice. Separate notice advertises land sale under local government act with details of registered proprietors, parcels, and auction at Court Chambers Atherton for multiple properties including sub divisions and perches. Proceeds allocated to estate of various executors and listed proprietors in Sydney and nearby areas.
Fragmented OCR reads as a collage of event times ads and products including book stalls at the Cairns Show and various shop items. The garbled text mentions evenings after 7 15 and weekend hours plus stock notes for powders soaps and school supplies. A reference to a bank chamber and a pharmacy appears amid stray names and items.
Fragmentary text mentions hospitals medicine and a supposed tree trial bottle linked to Dr Parker. References to Indian Ariette Remedy and rheumatia suggest health claims. Includes garbled phrases about trial and privacy with scattered place names and dates.
Fragmentary notes reveal Evatt pension plan pegging increases for old age, invalid, and widow pensioners with MPs and supporters signaling possible rises. Includes telegrams from J Meehan and references to Queensland government support and Labour backing amid looming coal price hikes.
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