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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 23, 1921
Page
4
In the fragmented notice special trains are advertised with unclear dates and times. It mentions schools or shows and a product tasting with a bottle of whiskey offered as a prize or incentive. The text is garbled, but indicates transit changes or extensions and a Wednesday reference. Names and locations are partially legible, suggesting a mid century local transport and event notice.
A garbled local page lists a variety of community items including tenders for stone crushing work, memorial notices for Ferdinand Kadow and family messages, forthcoming social events at The Fig 7hort Street, ship movements, and a flood of classifieds. Names, dates, places and ads appear in a long string of fragmented notes and notices from the harbor to Gordonvale.
Fragmentary London metal quotes for Monday show copper and bar prices, with mixed forward and spot figures in pounds. The sparse text references American and forward copper pricing and various spot rates, but details are incomplete and unclear.
A directors meeting this Thursday considered tenders for the building project. After review the group referred tenders to the Company’s technical head Mr Hill for decision. Several bids were listed with completion times and prices, including Jorgen and others, some with proposed payments and weather contingencies.
Fragmented report lists a Cairns council meeting adjournment due to no quorum, notes on carpenters by a Mary McDonnell and a meeting for the Cairns Board, plus arrivals and local notices. Weather, imports for February, ambulance preparations, and local events are briefly mentioned with scattered figures and names.
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