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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 17, 1929
Page
9
The record notes high water events with figures and dates in October including amounts and times. It lists moon phases from October with Last Quarter on October 3 and 10.05 pan. Arrival yesterday from the South and departures toward Port Douglas via Canonber and Cooktown are recorded.
Shipping notices list numerous departures and arrivals across Cairns Townsville Sydney and Melbourne. Vessels including Malabar Taiping Poonber Canonbar and Exton are noted with October departures and October or November cargo plans for sugar bulk glass and various loads. Agents Burns Philp Co and Samuel Allen and Sons coordinate movements with vacuum oil products and overseas sailings to Java India and USA ports.
Gamera arrived this morning and will ship 133 horses for Calcutta for Hegarty Bros.
Innisfail correspondent reports a dog nuisance with many unregistered animals. A savage mongrel attacked a man who sustained a laceration and required medical attention as authorities consider steps to curb the dog problem.
Brisbane markets report increased sales and higher prices for mixed chaff potatoes and pupaphins. Demand remains firm for potatoes and wheats, with several lots sold between 17/3 and 28/3, while some offerings were passed in or refused.
Brisbane reports a record year for skins with Fenwick and Co selling 13,000 skins. Kangaroos fetched 3 to 4 shillings 6d, reds 5s to 3s 1d, wallaroos 1s 4d to 2s 4d, whiptails 1s 10d to 2s 10d, and coastal wallabies 1s 0d to 5s 3d. Goatskins, shorthaired, brought 6d to 1s 9d per lb. hairy varieties sold at 4d to 9d.
Sydney reports metal market figures for October 16 with three month prices and estimates. Values include 7378/9 and 84/5 for peek, 184/10 for bars, 78/2 for best, and 1/11 for lead. Spelter and American electrolytic shares noted with related quotations.
Innisfail October 16. Official announcement that the South Johnstone sugar mill will finish crushing about the second week in December after an excellent season. Anticipated output reaches 220,000 tons of cane, expected to be the biggest crop in Queensland.
The funeral for William George Wailsor of Freshwater was held Friday afternoon from St. John's Church Cairns and proceeded to Martyn Street cemetery. The service was conducted by Reverend Hi ca and was attended by many from Cairns Gardenvale Freshwater districts. flowers came from numerous family and friends across listed households and towns.
Mareeba court heard Christie Kundsem charged with causing bodily harm to Michael and Terence Carr. He was remanded for a week, released on bail of 480 pounds with two sureties of 41 pounds. Both victims are hospitalized. The incident followed a Monday car accident in Mareeba.
Innisfail October 16 Magistrates Court before PM Aitkin. Vasilis Leonidas sues Phyliss Williama of Tully for 28 pounds 14 shillings rent due. Defendant counterclaims 50 pounds for money lent. Plaintiff’s lawyer McNamee, defendant represented by M A Vandeleur. Costs to be paid. adjournment due to client travel to Cairns.
Relatives and friends of MR. T R STEWART of Pug Tree Creek are invited to attend the funeral of his late wife WDoercent. The service leaves Babinda Hospital at 3 p m today Thursday for Babinda Cemetery.
In loving memory of Gwendoline Maud Lambert who passed away on the 15th October. The notice expresses affection from her husband aunt and family with a brief remembrance.
The Walsh Island Dockyard shows how piece-work reversed a long-running loss, turning a £42,739 deficit into a £42,690 profit and boosting employment to near double the previous year. The piece-work system raises per-head output and wages, contradicting laborist opposition to wage increases and urging freedom to earn in open competition.
The piece argues that the work idea is taking firmer hold as trades and workshops embracing it provide the strongest rebuttal to those who seek to enslave workers. Walsh Island Dockyard is cited among many examples that end debate over a system viewed as best for workers, industry, and the country.
The article discusses a meeting of state representatives led by New South Wales Premier Bagin to decide stance on arbitration and industrial law. Queensland's likely delegate is Mr. Sizer. With Labor back in federal power, debate centers on whether states should yield powers to the Commonwealth or retain rights, risking a difficult path for Mr. Scullin and broader costs to the public.
For the week ended Saturday last the Mulgrave Central Mill crushed 8551 tons of cane at an average cost of 161. The season total crushed amounted to 143,025 tons.
Councillor W. M. Simmonds of the Dains Shire Council has convened a public meeting in front of the State Hotel Babinda at 7.30 p.m. to protest the proposed sale of the State Hotel to sponsor a tou sienopoly.
James Patrick Griffiths, charged with unlawful presence in a licensed premises at Gardenvale on September 29, appeared before Mr A H O Kelly P M in Cairns Licensing Court yesterday. He pleaded guilty by letter, was convicted, fined £1 and ordered to pay 1/6 costs.
Farmer Mr Coombes of White Rock was kicked by a horse yesterday morning, injuring his right knee and treated by Cairns Ambulance who advised medical follow up. Dolores Richeria, 5, of Sawmill Pocket, also kicked and treated for a cut lip, injured gums and shock before being taken to Cairns District Hospital.
Yesterday presiding judge A H O Kelly heard an application to show cause why a conviction against the Hotel Pacific licensed premises should not be carried from Part 1 to Part 2 of the Registrar of Licenses in the Licensing District. The matter was adjourned for one week with counsel J Bennett appearing for the appellants.
The Cairns-Talle land Publicity Association reports a reply from the Royal Packet Navigation Company in Sydney. The firm supports Cairns as a port of call for trade with Java but says time does not permit calls there now.
Jim Khan faced Cairns City Police Court on a serious charge of allegedly dealing with a girl under 12 years old in October 1929. Senior-Sergeant Ing ram prosecuted, with defense by G. K. Bennett. Evidence included conversations at a camp in Bungalow and at Cairns Police Station leading to the arrest.
Crown Prosecutor reports a raised panel before Justice R. Douglas as fourteen defendants await trial. Fourteen named in joint charges of conspiring to fraud were remanded to Cairns Circuit Court for October 2% trial, via Elm alias.
The examination of school teachers will be held on Fremier 16 and days following. As a result, all State schools must begin vacation on December 4. State and provisional schools west of the 3rd merchan sit uated, and all State high schools will not begin the 1930 school year until February 2, 1930.
Brisbane forecast predicts generally fine weather with dust in the far south east tomorrow. Winds shift from north east to north near the coast with strong breezes in the southwest. Temperatures rise and the day will be very hot in the west. In Cairns yesterday George Henderson’s killer was named as McA O’Kelly remanded until October 18 with McLaughlin and Gennett appearing for defendants. In Cairns Simmons Court James Shang pleads to assault. verdict finds assault and fines him £3 16s 2d after hearing testimony from Schneckloth and Hellmuth and defense by Blanche Shang.
In Cairns yesterday Judge O Kell P M heard an application under the Magistrate's Court Act by Les Fitesimmons for an order for examination against G Manning Cairns The judgment creditor J Bennett of Murray and Bennett acted The bailiff Thomas Daniel O Rourke said he served a true copy on the debtor The P M adjourned the case for one week ordering further service of a notice of adjournment and tendered conduct money under the Act.
Progress on Harry Hill’s bathhouse project for Cairns continues with a planned opening Friday evening the first time baths will be open to the public Admission details and monthly tickets are advertised The opening will feature the Ietha and free admission for children on Saturday morning A Railway Bank representative will attend the opening court reports note several small debt cases heard in the Magistrates Court with various sums and costs awarded.
An Avro-Avian piloted by Messrs Bauer and Smith drew crowds in Cairns with repeated shuttle trips between Innisfail and Cairns. Spectators praised the long, smooth flights over cane fields and salt pans, with landings noted as flawless. Local observer Mr Dodds of Gouri described the journey as highly compelling and the vistas as majestic from Inda to Cairns, comparing the scenery favorably to a Melbourne-Cairns route.
A fragmented item notes a sugar crop for the 1928 29 season with unclear specifics. No clear names, dates, or organizations present in readable text.
F. C. P. Curlewis, secretary of the Cairns Canegrowers' Association, forwards an informative article from C. V. Hives, acting secretary of the Australian Sugar Producers' Association. Hives provides analysis of past trends and future effects on the sugar industry, promising steady interest for readers concerned with economic questions.
The article discusses renewed anti industry sentiment amid the Sugar Agreement near its end, noting ASPA measures like a vigilance office in the South and possible funds for a pro campaign. It cites economists favoring tariff reform, critiques protectionism, and highlights the butter stabilisation subsidy as evidence of costly distortions. It argues for thorough review of protectionist policy and references the 1927 Geneva conference opposing tariff increases and promoting liberty of trade.
An October 16 AW Order in Council and regulations enact powers under the Primary Producers' Organisation and Marketing Acts. They regulate the Queensland Cane Growers' Council the Australia Cane Powers' Executives and the Mill Supervisers' Committees.
The Innista School of Arts at Innisfail announced securing a loan to fund a new building with construction to start soon. The article also discusses tariff policy discussions about sugar protection, economic debates, and proposed stabilisation schemes amid rising costs and protectionist pressures in Australia. The piece cites economists such as Dr. F. C. Benham and Mr. M. Skene Smith, noting calls for cautious policy review and potential private economic investigations into sugar productivity and industry efficiency.
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