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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 14, 1946
Page
6
Screen listings include Tropica Paramounts The Uninvited and Went of the Pecos with Robert Mitchum. also The Five Graves to Cairo and My Favourite Wife. Local theatre touts vaudeville acts, dance lessons, prizes, and door numbers as crowds are invited to enjoy a mixed program of relief entertainment and film attractions.
Fragmented OCR text discusses rising house costs and government inaction. Mentions prices like £600 to £1100 for houses, and a secretariat and covenant lacking courage to tackle the problem.
Bette Davis plans memoirs after long Hollywood run while noting public interest in her preface years. Jimmy Stewart resumes acting on Magic Town as Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard discuss real life marriage in A Miracle Happened with screen writer tensions. Joseph Cotten argues standards in acting differ from art and music, citing Katie for Confidential and co stars Loretta Young and Ethel Barrymore.
A report from the Beirge afternoon notes the Red Cross Society donations and Atherton hospital project. Donations are invited from Tableland residents to fund a hospital kit and rest area with bathroom septic system and salting room fire. Subscriptions to Mrs EA Atherton or Miss M E Jones or Atherton branch secretary Box 125 P.O. Atherton. A meeting is planned with division president and Gr. chairman E J Maslin.
A pleasant afternoon was spent in St Monica's Club Rooms Tuesday last at a bridge party conducted by the CDA. Afternoon tea was served by Mesdames Shambrook, Smith and Bunn. The prize for the highest score was awarded.
At the Tully Rotary Club meeting Rotarian Harold Lund analyzed the Royal Commission report on former servicemen settlement in the sugar industry. Chairman Kick thanked the maid. The meeting was presided over by Past President Ted Hartington due to the president's absence. A letter from Euroa Victoria invited them to Charter Night on October 12 and greetings were sent to Reykjavik, Iceland.
October reports from the Commonwealth Statistician Mr. Wilson show the working population totals. In June the combined federal state and other government authorities employed 328,800 people while 1,387,700 were in private employ. The report notes continued growth and shifts in government and private sector employment.
Observers in Berlin expect a radical shift in western Allied economic policy toward Germany. A drastic modification may drop the postwar German industry plan agreed last March. Reparations could be curtailed and U.S. credit via the Reconstruction Finance Corp may be offered. Secretary Byrnes faces pressure ahead of a meeting in Berleń.
The passage notes that the securing of the mystery was performed by Mrs. Quaite and that the hidden number was arranged by Mrs. Dicken. Hostesses for the next afternoon will be Mesdames T Waugh and M Camron.
London dispatch reports the Paris conference has cost £336,000 so far with daily expenses mounting. Delegates use 178 cars and 388 drivers and consume about 50 000 gallons of fuel this month while hosting in 5 000 rooms.
The Serpentine is in Hyde Park London, in the Lanes Bauare. Would you be correct in saying the measure is 38 inches and the band at West Kine is unknown.
Fragmented text asks about increasing vocabulary in English and other languages. It mentions a night aged tear and kidneys, and includes scattered fragments like Gustation and Quotient. The material appears as a misread page note with task prompts.
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