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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 08, 1922
Page
5
Pink's displays the finest diamonds and workmanship with choicest designs and best values. Purchase the ring for recipient and donor or mail orders for Ring Card and quotations. Ten percent discount to all returned soldiers.
A vintage sale list markets women s shoes canvas bar footwear and maid s flatterings alongside boys white tennis shirts strong cotton men s undershirts and casual suits. It details sizes 7 to 13 for children and 4 to 11 for youths with prices like 9% and 11/9, presenting a broad inventory across white black pink tan and patent styles.
Hudson Essex Ford announce new prices for the seven seater garden deluxe model. The記 product of the Hudson Factory at Fullleiaee California Cairns Motor Agency Co Box 56 P.O. Mayers Ltd Huron Street Car. Cylinder 595.
The most up to date Private Hat on the Tableland will be opened to receive Medical, Surgical, and Convalescent Patients on or after September 11, 1922. Sister C L Hyde, Matros Hambledon School of Arts, Sunday service at 10, Presbyterian Service at J S School at 2.15, Preacher J A Sinclair.
October shipping notices listKuranda leaving Cairns Tuesdays and Thursdays for Townsville Port Douglas and Cooktown. Eastern due Cairns Sept 15. St Albans Cairns Sept 20 for Jagan. Wyreema due Saturday for Cairns. Morinda due back Sept 22. Merriwa loads logs sawn timber sugar for Sydney. Lameroo berthed yesterday. Kallatina due Cairns Sept 12 then Brisbane. Taiyuan due Cairns Sept 10 en route to Hong Kong. Cooma due Saturday, leaves Monday 8 pm for Melbourne. Canberra leaves Melbourne Sept 19 for Cairns. Victoria sailed from Sydney and heads to Hong Kong. Cantara loading east to North Queensland ports. Queensland Line may load cargoes from London at Middlesborough and Avonmouth.
London metal prices are listed for copper lead and zinc with forward and three month figures. Copper ranges from 63 shillings 1 3d to 71 shillings per unit, with electrolytic and bar classifications. Lead around 24 shillings 5d, forward about 23 shillings 10d. zinc quoted at 3176 or 50 12/6. American electrolytic copper cited at 10 cents.
Brisbane dispatch notes Roma forward sales for Lucerne hay and chaff with prices ranging from 3/3 to 9 per unit. Wheat lines passed in at 5/9 and 5/8 while pumpkins and sweet potatoes opened at 5/6. Potatoes from Gatton and Beeina drew keen bidding, with prices around £14 per ton. maize remains steady in demand.
The United States retained the Davie Cup, defeating Australasia as Patterson and Anderson led the singles. Australia faced a tough match with Patterson's backhand seen as a weakness while Anderson, recently silent, showed strong form amid a 15,000 crowd. The piece praises American crowd impartiality and notes tennis rising in popularity.
In sacred memory of our good mother Olive Le Roy who died suddenly at Bamford September 8 1913 Aga wife devoted Au a mother affectionate Ag a friend ever kind and true Inserted by her devoted daughter and sons Winters Fred George and Norman Le Roy
Obituary note for Isabelle Clarke dated August 13 at District Hospital. The page also discusses tennis in Cairns and North Queensland, promoting a Cairns and District Tennis Association, cross-town support from Charters Towers and Townsville, and calls for broader competition beyond local parochialism. Includes tide tables, advertiser notices, band events, a Presbyterian service at Hambledon, and a Gordonvale excursion train schedule.
A Mourilyan police court heard the gang of cane-cutters charged with incendiarism in a cane field. Each accused was remanded until next Wednesday with bail fixed at £200.
A local shop on Abbott Street showcases men s Thistl brand shirts in striped black on cream and plain white and cream options from 6/1 up. Also advertised are all wool one piece bathing costumes at 12/6 each, two lace with colored borders at 11/6 each.
Boland's Ltd reports a bustling day with their special representative present. Throughout the hours, the counters were thronged by eager customers who spent freely, with all ages and genders in line, reflecting a lively shopping atmosphere.
A Cairns Harbor Board special meeting is set for Tuesday September 12 at 7 25 p m to pass a by law imposing sugar export harbor dues to repay 75 per cent of a loan for a mechanised sugar handling system for the port. The notice also lists ads on clothing furniture a referendum vote and timber congestion concerns.
Gladstone advances with a revived Chamber of Commerce guiding progress. The Harbor Board plans a 500 foot jetty extension to berth two large overseas vessels, and approved Wool dumps on the jetty funded by a 6000 loan. 40000 pounds are being spent on street improvements. The Australian Cotton Association plans a cotton ginnery with rail siding approved. Oil compressing mills and spinning plants expected. Commissioners to visit. Samuel Allen and Sone Ltd, agents.
Melbourne September 7 Captain Bruce Federal Treasurer spoke at a Rotary Club luncheon outlining optimism for Australia's debt redemption within fifty years. He argued new wealth from resources can stabilise the old world economy and enable substantial tax reductions over time while continuing resource development.
A Cairns talk by Gunner Taylour on Cotton in the North explores cotton’s vast role in history and daily life. The piece traces cotton from ancient trade routes to modern uses in clothing, industry, and even weaponry, ending with a note on Page Three’s sale ads and a traveler’s nearer journey remark.
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