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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 12, 1922
Page
4
Advertisement promotes fine diamonds and workmanship with choices in rings. Encourages buyers to mail orders or visit, offers Ring Card and quotations, and advertises a 4 percent discount to all returned soldiers.
Striking examples of patent lace shoes and court shoes for ladies and men with prices such as 2/6 and 16/6. Includes white buckskin court shoes enamelled Cuban heels, canvas lace shoes, black boots, derby, box calf and oxford boots with patent toecaps or self welted soles.
The Essex car at the Hudson factory makes features noted as remarkable in comfort and design. Full particulars available from Cairns Motor Agency or Mayers Ltd Abbotts Street Cairns. Fiat Hudson Ford are listed among the brands offered.
The Cooma sails from Cairns to Melbourne via ports with numerous passengers listed. The Eastern departs Cairns on September 15 and the St Albans on September 20 bound for Japan. Vessels Kuranda, Morinda, Canberra, Cantara, Victoria, Kallatina, Taiyuan, Merwa, Carpentaria, Woodarra, Wyreema, and Montoro are scheduled for departures or arrivals, detailing routes to Port, Townsville, Hong Kong, and Sydney with cargoes and schedules.
It is announced the steamers of the Queensland Line from London to Cairns will load at Middleeborough and Avonmouth if adequate cargo offers are received.
Sydney metal prices show copper at 163/3/9 forward, silver around 30/13/9, antimony to £27, and American electrolytic copper at 14 cents. Malanda Garden City advertises sale of the Garden City area designed by D Meallingsworth, with Malanda noted as a promising investment center.
At Roma Street on Sept 11 buyers found lucerne fodder priced around 8 shillings with some lots at 7/9 and 4/6 for inferior samples. Wheat chaff and mixed feeds traded unevenly with values steady or firm for maize and staple goods. pumpkin and potatoes were scarce while overall business closed in brisk fashion.
The N B A and N Q B A differences are adjusted and the North Queensland Association now includes all north from Mackay. Cairns will host a carnival with over twenty first class bands and tours extending to Charter Towers Mourilyan Babinda Gordonvale Cooktown Atherton Mareeba Ravenshoe. Tides list high and low water times. Tenders for firewood are invited by Cairns Town Council. Miss Melbourne arrives Friday and Cricketers meet tonight at Strand Hotel.
Thank you to Doctor Mat ron and Sia Sota ese Mr W. Johnston cba saeigen master J. Sia and Station for their tributes and kind assistance in their recent event.
Tonight at Hi jan Hall the Cairns community is invited to a meeting with Mr. E. Hunter and Gunner Taylour. They will present problems of the proposed cotton industry in the North with focus on labor conditions and discussion of farming and manufacture projects to follow.
Auction sale notices list Mr J G Hoare selling two four room cottages on Lake Street on Wednesday. Harbor Board meeting notes approved sugar conveyor impost and revenue projections. Also reports death of Captain Geo Stewart Townsville mate of Trinity Bay dredge.
Alder man M. J. Hogan has promoted a North Queensland band contest in Cairns with success. A large band carnival is planned for November this year, building on prewar Cairns contests since 1910 and renewed activity in 1920. The program enjoys broad backing from local and external band associations despite minor affiliation issues with the Queensland Bands Association.
A compact list of discounted items at J Skeed's Abbott Street Cairne includes black and white veiling with borders today 3/11 a box, children's picture handkerchiefs down to 3/11 a dozen, rye roses 1/6 each, tussore sunshades 15/6, and glace ribbon per yard.
George Kerr 64, long resident of back country mining camps, died at Mareeba Hospital Sunday morning from ammonia poisoning. Formerly in Irvinebank bootmaking, then Malanda district and Mount Mull, his funeral was held at Mareeba Monday forenoon with Rev. Mr Challoner conducting the burial service.
Boland's Ltd advertises a broad sale with substantial savings on seasonable and serviceable wearing apparel for woman man and child as well as home goods across all departments. The notice emphasizes long lasting value and economy for shoppers during the sale period.
In Abbott Street the Customs House area faced danger as a shed frond and a coconut narrowly missed a man. The incident raises questions of liability for injury and who should pay. The writer suggests repairs to the Esplanade and street surfaces to prevent future incidents.
A special harbor board meeting reviewed tender offers for forthcoming wharf upgrades. Officials recommended bids from Gmmoensinad Machinery for steel bars, Pastoral Supply for wire nails, and firms including Baker Bros for rails and E. Lewes for spawles, with other material bids listed. After services, farewell remarks were given to Rev. E. H. Earl by Atherton congregants before his leave for Cloncurry and England.
Geneva reports show nations broadly favor reducing armaments though security concerns slow progress. Britain, Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand express varying degrees of accord, pledging reductions while noting others must follow and broader instability limits gains.
London dispatch reports Germany advancing a bold air program aimed at air superiority. Dornier and Zeppelin firms operate large test labs and nine new aircraft types. Junkers expands output and evades Allied oversight with overseas factories in the Netherlands and Spain.
Elizabeth O'Brien HM, serving nine months for stealing, escaped from Long Bay Gaol under cover of darkness while inmates slept. She climbed boxes to reach the wall and drop to the ground, evading guards. she had seven months of her sentence remaining and no prior escape by a female inmate had been recorded at the prison.
Tsingtao reports from a Tribune correspondent that Japanese authorities have sent 300 troops into Chinese territory to crush bandits menacing the city and hindering evacuation per the Washington Treaty. A Chinese force of about 1000 remains nearby, awaiting Japanese withdrawal to loot the rich district.
Our Own Correspondent notes probate of the will of W N Hall Cairns farmer. Reality sworn at 3400 pounds and personality at 6074 pounds. A furniture auction sale is announced at the Rectory Shott Street with items including a 16 foot alattie aboard the Repiinade.
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