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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 23, 1917
Page
3
A readable jumble notes visitors in Gordonvale Cairns and Innisfail mentions M Effice Gordonvale Mrs Gordon Cairns visitor Beaconsfield and Abbott Street addresses. War service items report Trooper John Nimmo returning to Australia and Ceciel Henry Gully wounded in France with family updates. Local business note mentions Nolans Dyeon and Holt moving premises on Lake Street Cairns.
Mr H R Gelston spoke at the School of Arts Hall Townesville onAustralias wartime duties. He urged unity behind the Australian flag and national government, critiqued party politics, and praised soldiers in France while stressing production and railway defence links. The Mayor presided. audience applause followed the call to national service.
The usual monthly meeting of the Red Cross Society was held in the Council Chambers on Thursday with Mesdames Craig G R Mayers Whitman Standish Hobson N P Draper Walls E A Atherton McManus treasurer and the secretary Miss Correspondence included donations from branches and funds raised for the Red Cross. Accounts totaling a small sum were approved and a show and races raffle proceeds of £102 2s 6d were noted with thanks extended to contributors and donors.
A 12 year old girl vanished from Greenock last September and hid at home for nine months with help from her two sisters while her widowed father searched. The tale includes a detailed description of a Dover man William Powell Hampton's will provisions for his funeral and employees. The report closes with a note on the week’s news in book form and the Northern Herald.
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