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Cairns Post in Cairns, Queensland

25 May 1920

Page 7

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Cairns Post

Location

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Date

May 25, 1920

Page

7

Cairns Post Stock Listings and Bank Transfers Patchy

A fragmentary Cairns Post listing shows numerous stock and bond entries from banks and companies. Items include Adelaide Steamship, Australian Drug, Bowen Consolidated Coal, British Tobacco Co, and multiple mine and brewery shares with assorted purchase prices and dates, plus naval and wartime bonds.

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ABC Adelaide Steamship Atherton Hill End Bonnie Dundee Ord Brisbane British Broken Mill British Tobacco Co SAO Bank of Queensland Io Ae Burns, Philp & Co Clark's Castlemaine Con Carlton Brewery Catens Timber Ltd Cairns Pictures Carns Gas Edna May Edna May Consols Edna May Deeps Edna May Centrals Finney Isles Gilmore Great Northern Hampden Howard Leith Iguana Coneels Lola Kitchener Hlocks Lode Hill Bad Mt. Cuthbert Mt. Lyell Mt. Morwan Macdonald Kitchener Oaks Ora Bay Perkins & Co Queensland Woollen Co Hensland Truustees Eensland Ineerance Pastoral Meat Export Co Deposit Bank National Bank National Bank, Inc Q. S. Bank Soretend Brewery St. Mungo Tyrconnell Too Thompson's Oaks Toohey's Brewery Tooth's Brewery Tacula Plantations Vulcan Walker's, Ltd Raf
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Skins and Hides Market Slumps Across Varied Species

Fenwick and Co report a broad, weak market for skins and furs with late-rate competition. Marsupial skins fall sharply, scrub wallabies and goats hit hardest while wallabies and kangaroos show notable declines. hare and cat skins fetch low prices and damaged pelts remain weak. Total skins sold: 18,503. Opossum skins suffer due to overseas trends.

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Fenwick & Cy Salesooren Brisbane Sera Wallaby Swamp Wallaby Coast Wallaby Rock Wallaby
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Auction Market Leads to Decline in Prices Across Goods

The report notes widespread unsatisfactory demand and price falls at auction. Valves eased by about 1s per dozen for certain items, with catalogs selling down 2s. Sheep products showed mixed results with private sales common for hedges and seedy lines. Hides and leather goods varied, tallow prices dropped, and calfskins and felts posted modest gains or declines as buyers remained cautious.

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Ital Kree Valiskas
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Camperdown Butter Co Output Report May 23

Camperdown Butter Co at Camperdown reports May production totals 4 tong butter 18 gulk powder and 1 ton casein. Butter fat price per pound is noted as paid. Monthly pay base used for calculations is described.

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Camperdown Camperdown Co
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Daily Howler sub-editor in comic farce at tea shop

In a Daly Howler styled scene, John Scroers, sub-editor, is mocked by a hotel table of colleagues and a lazy chief. Arthur Tomkins reads a ragged paper, recalls German wartime brutality, and berates the staff while the day unfolds with banter about editors and temper. The episode ends with Tomkins asking about the sub-editor’s identity.

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John George Augustus Scroers Daly Howler Cnnowed Sydney Finden Vivewoma Pelle Sab Arthur Henry Douglas Tomkins Crose Tomkins Arther Henry'Tomkins Howler Fae Tartar Tomkine Scroges
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Revenge scheme goes sideways in late night cab ride

Tomkins plans revenge with Scroggs, leads to drunken escapade in a Dago restaurant and a late night cab ride. They land at Scroggs' home where Mrs. Scroggs confronts Tomkins and the next hours force a compromise involving gifts to both families. Tomkins endures his mother in law's wrath while quitting the Daily Howler.

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Tomkins Scroggs Tom Kits Bon T. A Petoomen Scroges Scrogge Wistle
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