24 Oct 1916
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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 24, 1916
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR notes reference Spence Street Cairne near the Newmarket Hotel and Tolga area with an agent Biboukhra Meat Export and a Telephore address box. No clear event or dates given.
Property listings and improved properties from A J Draper Ltd. Describes multiple allotments on Draper Street Minnie Severin and other streets with frontages and areas. Notes commercial sites near Esplanade Lake Street and near the Council Chambers, plus several residences on Lumley Scott and Water streets. Some properties offer weekly payments or deposits, and a Queen's Hotel site is listed.
Melbourne reports detail Prime Minister Hughes addressing large Ballarat crowd amid scorn for antiwar agitation and warnings on conscription. The piece notes rowdy elements, police actions, and tensions between Labour factions as Australia braces for industrial policy and war measures.
Tasmanian Labour figures gather in Launceston and Hobart as war debts and state spending spark calls for cost cuts and possible political realignment. Hughes denounces LW.W. conspirators while warning of broader divisions within Labour councils. An audience hears calls for the release of jailed leaders amid mounting political tension.
A fragmented note describes doctors in a hospital noting a wonderful difference in the writer and several friends. The writer expresses a wish for a bolile to everyone, hoping for the same health result.
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