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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
3
Local notices report residents leaving for the south by the Lass o Gowrie and Moorilyan and others travelling to Gordonvale and Stet. A Cairns shop offers shaving and haircuts while Dyson Holt advertise repairs for cyclone damage. Meetings of Cairns Lodge and Gregory One are announced with visiting brethren invited.
The piece surveys air service surge as motorists unite for a vast movement, credits flying machines as an offshoot of the high speed motorcar, and notes Ralph de Palma’s world motorcar records at Sheepshead Bay. It details one hour and six hour marks, Packard twelve‑cylinder cars, and comparisons with Brooklands and Sunbeam records, noting speeds near or above 100 mph with stops.
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