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Cairns Post

Location

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Date

Sep 07, 1917

Page

3

Mareeba Busy Mail Day After Strikes and Travel Notes

Mareeba residents faced a disrupted mail service with reduced mail runs and the loss of night telephone service. Despite delays, post office staff processed letters first to keep urgent replies moving. Signaller Skeyhill toured Mareeba, delivering an impassioned lecture on Gallipoli then addressed a large crowd with music and a lively Q and A.

Bs Post Office Meredia Cairns Carrie Hywre Brisbane T.P.O Mareeba School of Arts Skeyhill Gallipoli GF. Smith Skey- Aill Signaller Skeyhill Pearce

Stannary Hill Notes Reflect Rail Strike End and Local life

News from Stannary Hill celebrates the end of the railway strike and the return of mail and goods. Residents report shortages in a prior week, visits by clergy, shifts to pony transport, and social updates including schooling travel and rifle drill results at 200 500 600 yard ranges with Wearmouth leading scores.

H. Standish B.biegs Cairns Bulah Nellie Bridee Mungana Messrs Long and Anderson N. D. Jensen Irvinebank Dr. MacFarlane

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