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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 06, 1943
Page
3
The community hosts an evening of variety and entertainment on Thursday night. Highlights include novelty acts and a parade of dances plus a lucky door prize. Special guest performances are planned by local groups and bands.
A patchwork page includes devotional lines about sorrow and endurance, a hopeful note about guiding hands and heaven, and a medical teaching listing from MAX WELSH State School. It also advertises ophthalmology services by WR Loxman and an October appointment, with a date line and contact hints.
The article details a station with a converted trailer for meals to wards, a mobile kitchen serving walking patients, and six trucks moving the theatre and facilities. It notes WAAAF nurses and medical staff in tents, with dorms, recreation tents, and evolving housing and laundry challenges amid wartime Darwin and Moresby duties.
Fragmentary poem fragments and aphorisms on virtue and action crediting Leonardo da Vinci. The readable lines discuss judgment, virtue, and choosing the right, with scattered garbled text and stray phrases about bread and god. The overall sense is a reflective moral meditation.
Members donated cakes and scones and ran a refreshment booth at the Exeter Rodeo. The drive raised over £100, with the financial report read at the meeting. The junior section held a busy month with new monthly attendees and preparations for an Anzac night concert and upcoming dances.
Last week at the Catholic United Service Auxiliary Cairns rooms volunteers provided tea coffee and facilities for Allied servicemen. Socials drew large crowds with many servicemen present and a supper funded by community members. Names of volunteers and attendees are listed, reflecting a bustling, generous community effort.
Members are reminded of a meeting at 2 30 pm on Friday next May 7 at the residence of Mr St Stephens.
A fragmented OCR snippet provides no clear people events or organizations to report. The readable content lacks sufficient context to form a factual newspaper card summary.
The ceremony united Flynn of Mosman and the daughter of the late John Bates in a formal wedding. Mrs A Kennay attended as aunt, with detailed bridal attire described. A large reception followed at the Exchange Hotel with many guests from the Catalina group and Army notables.
Moths carpet beetles and silverfish can cause thousands of pounds in damage to clothing each year. Follow CSIR guidance to protect wool and fur by brushing sunning sealing in tight containers and using naptha. Vacuum regularly and inspect stored garments to prevent infestations.
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