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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 14, 1918
Page
3
A long parade of snippets from Cairns and Innisfail include visits by inspectors and locals, repairs and retail notes, and military mentions. It also quotes W J Sloan outlining a party platform on railways, housing, land policy, workers, arbitration, and primary producers with emphasis on regional banking, road subsidies, and soldier reemployment. Major named places include Cairns Innisfail Mareeba Babinda Gordonvale and Townsville.
An election advertisement quotes the candidate speaking to Eacham electors. He discusses the world war and calls for speedy peace, then outlines State policy on mining subsidies, land settlement by advisory boards, making settlements attractive to youth, and reestablishing freehold tenure with government savings advances.
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