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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 28, 1912
Page
2
The Lower Burdekin Farmers Association invites applications for Organising Secretary with a salary of £250 per annum plus commission. Candidates should have reasonable knowledge of the sugar industry. Details from the President Ayr or the paper office. Applications to reach the President not later than November 1937. Signed RH Rate, President.
MISS E J HARRIS and MR CROWLEY advocate a coal based proposal for Queensland and the Commonwealth. A. J. P. MacDonnell will present the case to government leaders to secure support. Tests prove coal suitability, a Mt Mulligan railway opens employment, revives dormant mines, and boosts Hinterland and Cairns port prosperity.
A report notes shipments of Atherton Maine by the Wyreane on a Saturday night totaling 440 tons, mostly consigned to Townsville Brisbane and Sydney. A violent thunderstorm with heavy rain hit Tumoulin on Friday night splitting trees near the railway terminus. Burns Philp and Co extend their clearing sale for another week.
The Post telegraphic report outlines two new northern railways, with one line planned from a Chill junction to Mt Mulligan. Cairns and Hinterland residents welcome the proposal, as a broad community gathering produced two delegates, W P Crowley and others, who will meet the Premier to present strong facts in support of the project.
Last week's rains brought welcome relief to the hinterland areas suffering from heat and drought. The Obl lagoe line and nearby Bosamow neighborhood saw limited moisture, with rains not yet general across the region.
A prize lot of maize from the Atherton show is to be sent to the Richmond River show next month. Mr. McMaster, well acquainted with the Richmond River district, notes there is nothing left there.
The mining column discusses Mr Mulligan and Mr Hen’s status, the Cairns Bowl Club plan to visit Markey, and potential inclusion of Rockhampton. It notes a Rockhampton tour is feasible as the game is popular there, and mentions a forthcoming visitor rule for Cairns. It also references the Worker quoting Mr Barlow but avoids detail.
It is stated that W A Saunders, formerly chief officer of the Adelaide Uoy 5 steamer Grus tele and well-known in Cairns, now commands the company’s steamer Urilla. Howard Smith’s cargo steamer Chillagoe, which returned to Cairns on Saturday, may load sugar for the south at Townsville after arrival.
Messrs Allen and Sons Cairns received a wire from Winchcombe Carson and Co reporting that light hides realised 85d and no further advance for medium to heavy hides. Mr Harris General Secretary of the Queensland Ambulance Brigade arrived by the Grantala for an inspection visit to northern centres. He travels with Supt Bogan Cairns. hearings planned for Chillagoe Atherton and a return to Cairns on Thursday night. Harris expects to stay in Ulfa for about a week.
Mr. Jacobs, formerly purser of the Grantala arriving from yesterday, transfers to the War Sida on the western run, a promotion among the Australian coast purser ranks. Mr. Frost replaces him on the Grantala as the Adelaide Company fields a second vessel for the Melbourne Cairns service. The text then digresses into reflections on holidays and a quoted fragment about Kant.
A fragment describes experiments in Germany to end imprisoning lunatics and notes a new facility in Rhesish Persia built near Bedbury Cleves. The 3.5 million pound establishment follows garden-city lines with 24 houses for up to 1100 patients and includes its own railway, ice factory, church, theatre, and amenities.
Cairns Chamber of Commerce President T H Donaldson received a note from Mr Crowley outlining a proposed deputation to the Premier. The group aims to urge construction of a railway from Fambulah to the Mt Mulligan coal field and to secure premier support upon his return on Monday.
A public nuisance notice from Hobart references a case involving soot and items described as 8 inpetses and 09 hatin hides, with parties Foy Premeati A170 and maple connected to the matter. The filing appears to name locations and a municipal context without full clarity.
In Brisbane, on Sunday, the purser Mie Mertens aboard the Prins Waldemar shot himself while the ship was on the Brisbane River from Japan. He died a few hours later after being taken to General Hospital. A storeman reported the incident and tried to alert him as he waited to go to the upper deck.
Australian Defence Minister Pearce warns of troublous times and a constant push to keep the military at peak efficiency during transition. He cites defence costs rising from £2,000,000 to £5,510,600 annually and stresses no weak link in the chain while citizen forces bolster national security.
Adelaide Sunday column notes Friday remarks by mier Peake ridiculing Labor party members for whitewashing Abe wives in land deals and pushing a longer work week. He mocks unionists and claims Liberals would withhold jobs, while praising merit. He highlights salary lists in the Northern Territory as a dumping ground for unused talent.
The Adelaide gathering reports the Employers Federation's strong year with growing interest in employer groupings. Eight industrial disputes occurred, and the mutual defence fund rose to over 1.9 million pounds, bolstering support for industrial peace and prompting similar associations in other states.
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