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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 21, 1945
Page
6
A scrambled ledger of sale notices lists machinery farming gear apparel and household items with scattered names and locations. Various buyers sellers and auction hints appear amid garbled OCR text, including references to FOR SALE items horses boats and household goods, with dates and prices obscured by distortion.
Properties for sale and to let advertised with multiple listings across Queensland. The notice outlines auctions, real estate agents, and assorted services including veterinary and insurance offerings. It mentions dwelling allotments in townships, farm sugar and poultry products, and general real estate sales and tenders.
Cairns Pty Ltd advises the premises in Shields Street will be closed from Monday inclusive, with handover of the business. The notice requests customers to bear with any disruption and thanks them for past support over seventeen years.
In Canberra a government survey plans to track civilian and service personnel for ration cards and war effort needs. The piece notes labour shortages in bakeries and farming, delays in manpower releases, census aims to determine if manpower is oversupplied, and the tension between mobilising workers and sustaining essential production amid drought and military demands.
A report details the South Australian Fire Brigade patent for a gas and alarm system intended to replace older Alaris in Adelaide City and regional districts. War conditions slowed progress, but officials stress the device could curb false alarms by callers and enable clearer operator questions when needed.
Irvinebank notes report on mining sector shifts and a public talk by Dr. A. President about Australian ceramics. Contained are references to Week Treatmit, Liilie ver Leet, and a discussion of ore values, mine operations, and technical college connections.
Fragmented account describes a World War II air engagement over the Pacific in which a Liberator bomber battles Japanese fighters. Despite multiple hits and gunfire, the tailplane sustains damage before a successful landing by Group Captain Kingwell after the crew evades enemy fire.
War time policy spurs machinery pools that boost farm equipment supply in Australia. The scheme channels machinery and spares to farmers, enabling harvesting, spraying, and threshing work previously unavailable. It supports barley, beans, beets, and peanut processing while preserving regional farm livelihoods and prompting nationwide production boosts.
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