27 May 1915
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 27, 1915
Page
1
A garbled list of names and places shows JACK & WEWELL as general merchants and forwarders in Cairns. The OCR reads multiple individuals and towns across Queensland including Port Darwin Townsville Mackay Mary Hills and Ingham.
Shipping movements show vessels arriving at or departing from Cairns and Townsville with schedules toward Bowen Mackay Trimhane and Melbourne. Vessels such as ALULS.N. steamers depart Cairns Friday to Weekdays ports. arrivals include Sydney and Melbourne routes with Sunday services.
Australian ships and timetables surface in scrambled notices. Peregrine leaves Tomperille every Monday for Brisbane, then Thursday to Mourilvan, from Towneile at 5 am, returning to Cook Town. Brisbane supports onward voyages to Hong Kong via ports in June and July 1915. Weather and weaving plans for Townsville and Hope are noted alongside cargo movements.
The London Directory lists merchants shipowners and dealers in London and provincial towns with notices of port rites postal rates and advertising options. It details costs for entries and larger ads and mentions the London Directory Co Limited based in London with a postal identifier.
An ornate advertisement lists rough and dress timber joinery mouldings and turnery with latest appliances. It promotes house furnishers furniture factory and bedding factory offerings, with a general catalog and telegraphic contact at a town mill. It mentions ladies evening suits, carpets, utensils, and related home goods with broad manufacturing and supply claims.
The board discussed the Willunga dredge offer of £200, telegrams on float date and costs, and hiring a watchman. Motions approved to fund dredge flotation at lowest cost, and to pay £30. Reports from Chillagoe Ltd and Cairns District Hospital noted. alterations to staff names and board resignations approved. Marine Superintendent report received. progress noted on ships, rails, and repairs.
Minutes record a meeting where the board considers extending the main channel to the far end of No 2 bed, calls for coal tenders for 13 months from August 1, and resolves to restore annual committees. The session covers overtime policies, a cement exchange claim with Fearnley and Co, and reimbursement debates amid wartime costs.
A Cairns Market Board meeting on Wednesday revived the tariff with no changes in listed rates. Items include case fruit per Maine per ton, molasses per 108 feet, potatoes sweet, sedar logs, coal and coke, and transshipment charges set at direct five and indirect six.
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