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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Nov 30, 1950
Page
3
Fragmentary text mentions a holiday theme with a sale or display of shaving sets and special price offers. No clear persons, organizations, or places are readable. The readable portion hints at seasonal styling and a Christmas related promotion.
A jumble of old sports notes covers sailing yachts, boxing legends, marathon winners, and cricket feats. It mentions the 1003 trans Atlantic yacht race, the Kaiser's Gold Cup, Gulf of Mexico golf boasts, and notable athletes like Jon Sultan and Neal McGeehan, with quirky anecdotes and historical curiosities interwoven.
A long, garbled sports ledger lists innings scores, bowler figures, and best players across multiple games. Names like Gnas, Edmonton, United, St Josephs, Aloomba, Gordonvale, and Kangaroos appear with various figures, including for example 3 for 11 and 5 for 26. The text mixes batting and bowling highlights, team names, and partial results, reflecting an unruly OCR pass with scattered stats and incomplete lines.
Edmonton y Kangaroos at Chime North 4 Gordonvale Uniteds at Cams Nerena grade fl Kiwi v Eamonton at Edmon ton Cniteds Emeralds at Cairns Marth 2 Alcambs Talpna at Cardonvale Scinl Kangaroos v NCGM at Cairns North J St Montews vy VAL at Parramat Behoot invasor St Joseph at Alley Park Gordonvale
The Centreboard club faces a close finish as Destiny Too and Mavora vie for top honours in the forthcoming cup events. Destiny Too, skippered by Lindsay Jones, holds 183 points, with Mavora on 174 and Heather, Vinome, and SGM close behind. Next Sunday hosts heat one of the championship with handicap races and Crowley and Archubaia trophies up for grabs.
Cairns Coursing Club schedules a Saturday gathering at Park Showground with dog trials starting 2.20, listing entries such as Dopey, Fara Chiet, Dark, and several others amid weathered notes and scattered names. The text also recounts a separate tale of a UK military collection sold for £38,000 to an American millionaire.
Tender invites for Morrin 10 sedan DL from Mulgrave Genus MIT. Mareeha hospital calls for sisters. EM Bogen and Co. seek range cater for Juneara. Tf Wathios Pytans advertise vari ous trees Cairne and Danatat. Cairny Base hospital seeks clerkt typiste and cheque telebonietg addidone timber and fibro.
Nov 29 at Roma Street market Moserar supplied lucerne chaff and other produce while variety supply was limited. Prices ranged from £8 per ton to £12 2s 7d for chaff with leafy hay at £6 5s 2d per ton and pumpkin lots fetching about £3 12s per cwt. Seventy six bags of ware stood ready with more offered for sale and private treaty disposition noted.
A tense High School Cup final ends with a win for the team led by Coutts 305. Barrett and Augustines provide strong support as the undefeated E grade teams, including Penitton, draw attention in a season that saw a Mullins Shield arrangement for a match at Innisfell on December 10.
Bettal imports over 260 million bashels of wheat annually, exceeding the total wheat imports of any three other European countries combined.
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