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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 22, 1930
Page
4
A lone traveler recalls a tribal gathering by a lakeside ledge as canoes arrive from all directions in answer to an ancestral call. The night ends in a feasting frenzy with drums, smoke, and ritual fury before dawn reveals a silent lake and a lone loon’s cry.
A British delegate at the International Trade Union conference in Stockholm misread a sign labeled as prohibitionist propaganda. The message turned out to point to a ladies bathroom, relieving officials who feared a covert campaign.
At the Gila Secondary School sports meet the seven groups of girls competed for the seven seris cups amid cheering parents and friends in the city hall grounds. St Margaret's claimed both senior and attendee cups while Grammar School trailed by one point. Notable attendees included Sir John and Lady Goldwin.
The report details Opperman posting fast times on a grass Malvern track and in motor paced events, with a 3 mile run in 3 minutes 43.5 seconds and 213 miles in 9 minutes on a different course. It also notes Ralph Lambert gaining recognition for a half mile time of 15 seconds in Rockhampton. The complete list follows.
A fragmented OCR listing long-distance track records across Australian states from 1920s to 1930, naming riders such as J. Parmley H. Opperman and H. Veitch, with distances from 3 miles to 575 miles, noting tracks in Sydney Melbourne Geelong Adelaide Dubbo Bathurst and Fremantle and including times ranging from minutes to hours. The text suggests a collage of endurance feats, pacing, and track results across years including 1927 1928 1929 and 1930.
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