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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 28, 1945
Page
4
A dense OCR page fragment shows numerous classified items including WASTED notices for goods, auction listings, real estate, and service requests. Names appear sporadically, with brief price hints, contact cues, and product mentions across agricultural gear, machinery, and household items.
Several job notices invite applications for greenkeeper and related roles at hotels, houses and estates. Listings show multiple firms including National Service Office, Auctioneers and Real Estate firms seeking capable staff. Positions demand housekeeping, cleaning, care of grounds, and office tasks with various locations and terms.
The notice fragment lists lost items including a black leather brief case and a penknife with a reward for return. It also contains scattered wanted ads for items and services plus household needs and a newly married couple seeking furnishings, all with box numbers for responses.
Notice announces tenders for poultry supply lots closing at 7 pm on June 8. Details include allotments and parcel numbers, with references to section numbers and regulatory terms. Bidders urged to submit applications and comply with specified conditions.
A mosaic of garbled OCR text outlines subscription details for periodicals, magazines, and newspapers. Mentions Moynahan's Chemist ADOT The Later Newspapers and various traders and rates. Includes scattered references to subscribers, prices, and delivery terms.
A garbled OCR item mentions medical topics and a tweet about patients and care. Details are unclear, with multiple errors, making precise entities difficult to identify. The readable bits hint at hospital or medical supply context and online messaging without concrete outcomes.
Cairns Weekly Penny Savings Bank held its annual meeting announcing year end results and plans. Directors reviewed financial performance and outlined strategic goals for the coming year.
A formal notice from the executor of a will details the general meeting of members and a special general meeting. It notes the sole executor and location at Denhamtree Townsville, with Trustees distributing the deceased’s estate after a claim period. The document references solicitors Ghoes Long and Einar Odu and calls for claims by interested parties.
A garbled notice notes visits and a potato control representative. Names such as Mr Gill from Grimshaw Street appear alongside references to Cairo, Sydney and Brisbane. The fragmentary text mentions travel by AMA plane and a Sunday departure, but details are unclear.
A Tuesday afternoon at St Monica's Club Rooms featured bridge players, floral decorations, and a dainty tea served by seven ladies. Prizes included highest score to Mrs Mirob and door number to Mrs Carman, with a sweets box donated by Mrs Peet won by the Sitters of Mercy. The event supported the Red Cross and Appeal Week, with a parish collection totaling £28.
Mrs Les ae ad Gps Stee Marat departs with her mother-in-law to Adelaide and Melbourne visiting friends before heading to Cairns with Mrs Boyd. The voyage includes trips to Melbourne and Cairns as part of a holiday tour with accompanying companions and family.
A distorted OCR snippet lists scattered names and terms like streets and places such as Avenue, Salem, Boland, and HOGHES. The text appears as a garbled, partial note with no clear event or cohesive summary, containing unrelated fragments and potential proper nouns without context.
Fragmentary OCR notes show distress about harsh threshing and burning communications linked to a tribe, with a cryptic line about suffering and a vague remedy. The text mentions a chemist and a bottle of Premier lo da tras and implies a panic reaction to an unknown threat.
Fragmented OCR outlines revival season chatter with scattered names, venues, and performances. References to Haray's Blonde Trousle and multiple performers hint at a theatre program with dates and tickets, but the text is garbled leaving only partial entities and loosely connected scenes.
An OCR fragment mentions optometry services and a visiting optometrist. Details are unclear but indicate a mobile or visiting eye care professional associated with a locality likely named Lochton or similar. Further readable specifics are not available in the text.
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