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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 10, 1910
Page
4
The page lists various hat offerings including The Horseman, The Alfonso, Pasama Hats, Mens Patema Hats, Pure Fur Felt hats, and Borsalino. It provides color options, brim sizes, and post free pricing in old monetary formats. Sizes span from 6 to 7 plus remaining details.
Local visitors include Mr and Mrs Maneers returning from holidays and Mrs Dunwoudie en route to Townsville. Officials and tradesmen travel through Cairns with numerous updates on ferries, turbines, and town events.
A dispatch reports shipments purchased in the district and forwarded by steamer from Aire to Survey Local agents amid high interstate freight costs. It notes Mr Graham of Evelyn Tableland promoting agricultural prospects, visits from Watsonville and Gippsland comparisons, a funeral at Toowong Cemetery, and discussion on land ownership and absenteeism taxes affecting property speculation.
A local page piece discusses whether New Zealand should adopt a land tax or a licenses approach to property, framing the policy choice as a test of national prosperity. Officials weigh benefits and potential equity impacts, with public opinion fragmentally cited.
Fragmented OCR recounts a Leeds Cath olic Congress talk by Dr Ward Henshaw in Sale Cheshire denouncing modern decadence. The speaker warns of indecent literature cinema and social unrest fueling national decline with clips of medical dissection and mixed remarks on women and immorality.
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