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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 03, 1928
Page
3
Navy lined children’s pandan hat with ribbon band bow features a Lady Remy style shape and wide brim. Intended as a birthday gift with price noted as 3/11.
A fragment lists items such as coloured flouncing for frocks and ladies' silk hosiery with birthday gift prices. Handkerchiefs with coloured borders are offered, including a price for a pair and a smaller single item.
Readable fragments show a Manchester department display with rubber bath mats curtains rugs and assorted fabrics. Items listed include black mohair bedside rugs velvet pile rugs cream casement cloth and champagne shades with birthday gift price notes and yard wide cloth.
Mercery department lists boys crash shirt waists priced 2 shillings 6 pence each with striped designs and durable double stitching. Ox ford shirt waists priced 4/6 each note solid wear. Bombay tweed knickers with belt loops priced 3 per pair. Tan and grey neverip items with belt loops noted.
A reader letter laments the Waterside Workers Federation split with militant minority leaders blamed for Australia’s waterfront turmoil. It criticizes Kelly for failing to win the strike, argues the Beeby award harms no one, and notes Innisfail tensions and local business pushback against Trades and Labor Council influence, dated October 26.
A letter from an Innisfail resident mocks sensational reporting about the Johnstone Shire Council chair wearing boots. The writer recalls officials across town wearing boots, noting local figures from the Shire Chairman to hospital committee heads and police officials, and jokes that boots will stay on even with new roads.
Canberra reports October Customs revenue at 3,829,618 pounds up from September but below the Treasury estimate. For four months to October 4, receipts total 4,940,265,100 pounds, down 21,541,977 from the prior year’s period, and 21,106,997 below the Treasury forecast.
At a meeting organized by the Cairns land cooperative Gunter Association October 1 a five member committee was named to organize poultry keepers. They aim to raise egg quality, reduce packing costs, and form an egg pool for North Queensland with traders from Cairns, Darwin, and Thursday Island in view. The group discussed shell grit, egg packaging, freight costs, and bulk purchasing of feeds to cut expenses.
Innisfail report from October describes Maltese farmer Janet Zammit aged 43 charged with stealing four pairs of shoes and a silk shirt valued at £2 9s 5d. He was found with the goods by Constable Joe Griffin and pleaded guilty in court. The case notes Zammit’s limited prior record and a £5 fine plus costs.
Detector J Radio is to conduct experiments in Australia and the United States at two o'clock on November 1 using a ten metre wave length. The mission aims to merge signals across continents aboard trains.
Innisfail November 1 A letter from P J Nally Director Queensland Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau to the New South Wales Agriculture Minister discusses high Queensland fruit prices in Sydney. The NSW reply notes rent costs and street vending barriers, urging growers to organise distribution to reach consumers directly while government aid would assist. It stresses need for an organised grower and consumer framework and potential Farm Produce Agents Act changes.
An advertisement extols Rexona Soap and Rexona Girl status promising health beauty for skin and hair. It contrasts Rexona with ordinary soaps noting soothing healing properties and claims rapid treatment of skin conditions. The copy urges daily use to cleanse pores reduce pimples and keep skin velvety. Price details appear and distribution claimed.
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