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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 24, 1945
Page
6
An extensive, fragmented OCR of notices and ads appears with numerous listing items. It includes vehicle, household, real estate, and legal notices, interspersed with partial names, addresses, prices, and sale terms. The readable portions show sale requests, real estate listings, and probate notices among miscellaneous catalog entries.
A garbled employment notice seeks male and female juniors for washing and general duties. Positions include laundress general, experienced waitress general, housemaid, chef and cafe dispenser at Barron Valley Hotel and Milk Bar. Applicants should be sober and capable with age and marital status details requested.
Scraps of classified style notices describe local repairs and services from Sorrento to Gordonvale. Listings mention Singer machines, needle supplies, concrete work, paving, and garden stone, with names like G. A. McDougall and Carter Gordonvale noted for contracting. Open hours and delivery details appear amid fragmented ad copy.
A fragmented classified notice offers rooms to rent at Norman Park and shop frontage near Atherton. It mentions phone contact, rental terms, and a preference for a permanent tenant, with several garbled phrases about rates and suitability.
Local listing advertises properties for sale with an unusual offer. The notice highlights no down payment requirement and mentions Pantibulars and Ablicaston in readable fragments.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions lost feature marks near Sherasn Street and Gattonettert with disjoint words and unclear names. Likely a local street notice or misread storefront marker. Unable to extract clear facts or individuals from the fragment.
OCR text lists trades and professions including carpenters and alterations to dwellings, mentions E Weeks McNamare and REX Manufacturing Works offering limited out of revisions, plus hospital and medical department notes. Fragmentary items imply service offerings for building alterations and privacy areas.
The report notes Royal Air Force and Australian personnel evacuating from Bangkok to Singapore and thence to Australia. Wing Commander John Game leads the evacuation unit as remaining New Guinea and Sumatra operations shift to priority, with nurses and POWs among those moved while calls for humane treatment rise.
A dated fragment lists racing events with place names such as Herberwn Ongber Cams Mareans Mt Mus Thean and Chatagoe deter s0-inciséail annuals in October November and December. It references Abbreviations Guréonle Atherion Mt November 16 and Tumotn November 11 with Mareeba Caumne Caime and Atherton among locations.
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