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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 02, 1946
Page
4
Official result page shows multiple prize tiers from second to fifth with large lists of numbers and names across Brisbane and Queensland addresses. A sprawling sequence includes prize amounts of 1000, 500, 350, and 300 pounds and numerous coded entries, names, and serial numbers.
A London housewife challenges invitations to surrender food for liberated countries as Sir Ben Smith, Minister for Food, resists door to door campaigns and favors changing the rationing stance. Background notes recount Smith's wartime career, Labour posts, and overseas ministerial roles.
Sir Bertram Stevens told a Sydney luncheon Britain’s export push, with June 1945 to December 1945 worker increases and a 1946 plan to raise exports to £750 million. He urged Australia to expand exports beyond food to secondary production and warned public works must boost productive capacity to meet overseas demand. The piece also notes Roosevelt era philanthropy and a stamp auction tied to the Warm Springs foundation.
The piece discusses how English spreads globally through media and commerce, estimating hundreds of millions with some using it as a first or second language. It notes Churchill's speech and its reception, the value of translation, and how language shapes diplomacy and perception beyond Russia and France.
The Day criticizes the Soviet Union for denying access to Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria for a committee on Jewish conditions in Europe. It questions why Czechoslovakia and Poland within the same orbit were admitted and predicts the committee will find rising Zionism among Jews in these excluded states. The Day believes Britain will not regret excluding the committee.
A Melbourne Herald correspondent reviews New Zealand's wartime prosperity and warns that Fraser's Socialist government faces a split opposition and growing discontent. Farmers demand higher prices and shorter hours while the Left Wing pushes for broader socialisation, risking a new political cycle as elections approach.
Georgia and surrounding states emerge as major pulpwood hubs. The South now produces half of US pulp output with fifty plants in operation and billions in planned investment. Foresters tout vast forest potential, while conservation efforts, new equipment, and large-scale plant expansions reshape the region’s timber economy.
London reporters describe historic practice in Britain’s Central Criminal Court where judges wore robes and wigs and prisoners received nosegays. The ritual, born of necessity during wartime shortages, faded with modern scents and safety, though mentions of carding Wolsey carrying an orange stuffed with spices persist as colorful lore.
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