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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 16, 1922
Page
6
Mex J Kidney visits as O W E L organiser across Herberton for a week. Mrs O’Meara and family depart for Cairns by train. Mrs Bond and child arrive. homes being exchanged. Mrs Bond and Miss O’Meara swap residences. Chas. Abrahams visits Herberton brief stay.
Brisbane reports Bowen Late Coal Mine currently yields about AK tons daily, with an expected rise to 400 tons daily in a month. Styx River State Mine produces roughly 125 tons per day. General manager notes progress in extraction and development, with railways supplied and Bowen coal praised for quality comparable to Newcastle district. Potential early export markets foreseen in New Zealand and foreign buyers. A new shaft at Styx No 2 under construction and Bowen State mine shafting planned. Bowen Government coal wharves unlikely to be ready for about a year.
Meters Ltd states their works are open to all employees if the AB-hour week is recognised. A notice posted on the gates mentions closed hours until arrangements are made regarding recognition of the 48-hour week.
Two young girls at Cathie Home New York ingested rat poison mistaken for candy after a German exterminator left the poison near a barrel. One girl died, another in danger, and two more children were seriously ill.
Reported scenes mimic the hunger strike of late Cork Lord Mayor James McSwiney as his sister protests in Dublin. Crowds gather nightly outside the prison, reciting the Rosary and pressuring authorities while detainee Cosgrove deflects blame onto De Valera Mary McSwiney and allies for bloodshed in Ireland.
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