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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 01, 1919
Page
4
Partial readable text shows a roster of names including Misses AE Abello Hotman and M. Doolan, with mentions of Lieut Harrison and J. M. Brown among others. Second class and steamer references suggest a passenger or crew enumeration in a maritime notice from Australian steamship listings.
Passenger list includes W A Cooke and two children, Miss Gate, nurses, and multiple others aboard Pig Embergo for Port Douglas and Cooktown. Sailing details show Australian Steamships timetable with dates in September 1919 and tides listed for October 1.
Fragmentary note mentions assets and business transacted with figures 2497 and 430. References to an accident involving Jo n Corot Wyn and insurance onus. Proceedings or fees implied in the record.
Auction notices offer No 1 acres freehold on Russell River at per acre with down payment options. No 2 Sugar Workers BLOCK in Gardenvale with lease, fenced area under cane and farming implements. Also land, house, and rental details in Scott Street Cairns. Additional hotel lease in good sugar district. Also private notices of survive and memorials across Queensland.
A typographic fragment argues taxation as the fair path to fund public services like railways rather than hidden levies. It urges raising fares to cover expenses, exposing cost shifts to citizens, and notes Britain’s coal wage-price link as a cautionary example.
The mine manager reports the fortnight ended September with Feet Level North Drive advancing 11.5 feet from Redmond's shaft. Reef 5 feet wide values 15 dwts and tending to resume NW direction. Intermediate Level 317 feet advanced 56 feet North face 2 feet wide values 14 dwts. Preparing timbering. Plant and Machinery boiler completed. Poppet legs.
Fenwick & Co galesmen report cattle yarded and strong beef prices with bids up to 160 calved penned. They offered 90 Maep end tanks and 197 cattle and calves. hides supplies fair and market activity noted.
The fragment mentions a Police Court meeting scheduled for 7.30 p.m. tomorrow and a ladies’ meeting at 4 pm at the new quarters. It also advertises footwear at Green's Chemists, Abbot Street, Cairma, claiming better hosiery and durable boots and shoes.
The Rest Home Treasurer RB A dis h thanks readers for numerous donations via Mrs Chrs tansen and others. Collections include 5 shillings, 1 shilling, 11 shillings 17 sixpence, and 1 shilling 2 sixpence, totaling the current amount. A Geelong telegram reports mild influenza still present in Etheridge Shire with six cars at Mount Surprise fourteen civics at Laura, three cases at Gilbert River. Immediate action planned.
The War Office details issuing and processing honor certificates for officers soldiers and nurses disabled by service. It explains eligibility, theatres of operation including Western Front and Far Eastern theatres, and procedures for forwarding and recording certificates and wartime service.
A disrupted schedule sees Mr. Draper postponed to today for a dispute hearing in Babinds cane area. Magistrate Mr. T A Fe presides as matters stretch to Tuesday for a possible settlement. Kent H y hosts a Returned Sa and ee 1al League meeting as George! eau and Fulton elections loom. Councillor H. Athertos is reported dead. nominations were two for Harbor Bre with Albert Lindsay James Johnstone and William Herry Grove among nominees.
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