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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 09, 1952
Page
5
Melbourne newsletter notes a years long boom in jobs for married women has collapsed as vacancies fall. Employers admit married women were not ideal long term staff, with many taking short shifts to manage home duties. Early independence faded as layoffs rose and replacements halted.
A reader criticizes political focus on industrial targets while small farmers bear long hours. Other letters discuss Melbourne’s St Kilda’s decline, tourism memories, and changes to beach culture and nightlife, noting alcohol, smoking shifts, and backyard brewing amid costs and penalties.
An article from the New Commonwealth, contributed by Bernard Braine MP, outlines experiments in the West Indies to expand sugar by products. Bagasse could fuel factories and become a raw for cardboard, insulation, and plastics, while molasses offers food value and feed potential. Jamaica hosts a UK backed factory with limited progress due to cost.
A jumble of 19th century speculation links the Great Pyramid to measurements and cosmic prophecies. The piece cites Pi, base perimeter, and height ratios, plus divinations tying Exodus 1488 B C and World War I to pyramid corridors and galleries, mentioning Barbarin and Moreux.
The Mulgrave Shire Council discussed footpath repairs on the southern main street section with the property owner and referred street surface deterioration to the engineer. It urged uniform petrol pricing, rejected current interpretations, and promised vigorous representations. Letters from MP A. H. Watson and Education Minister Devries about Babinda High School top for Babinda, plus travel concerns to Cairns or Innisfail, were raised. The Labour and Industry Minister noted fish in creeks and a cow to test freshwater streams in North Queensland. The council was asked to respond to Bramstone Beach coconut plantations questions and relay them to Mulgrave Shire. Wiles urged graveling Babinda Creek road to ease heavy lorry traffic. A health inspector visit to Babinda should meet chamber reps to discuss grass and weeds on town footpaths. No appreciation letter for a public telephone cabinet at Babinda Hospital gates.
The Duke of Edinburgh presided at the first Coronation Commission meeting set to arrange the crowning next year of Queen Elizabeth. London hotels are already fully booked for the event, though it is 13 months away.
Berlin May 6 Allied occupation authorities announced West Germany’s European defence contributions were reduced by 340 million pounds. Of this, 160 million pounds funded maintaining the British Army on the Rhine, a cost now to be borne by the British Government.
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