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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 28, 1945
Page
8
A cluttered OCR fragment shows numerous FOR SALE and WANTED items across real estate, appliances, vehicles, and services. Entries reference refrigerators, furniture, tools, clocks, watches, boats, and building materials, with scattered contact cues and partial pricing. The text reflects a bustling mid-century classifieds page.
An OCR fragment advertises permanent wave services at a salon on Lake Street in a town near Mitton State. Mentions telephone contact and mixed references to beauty services, medical times, and a later note about morpita or medical rites. The legibility is poor with many garbled terms.
Fragmentary listing dated Friday September 24 1940 shows Mr Ah Chote Brehue involved in metal gold oil shares. Partial quotation headings indicate wartime loan securities and stock abbreviations.
Mareeba board members examine nurse staffing, vacancies, and relief arrangements. Matron Woolley reports on current needs and the secretary urges advertisement for relieving sister roles. Discussions cover medical coordination, conductor appointment, and potential temporary shortages while awaiting a second medical fillet. The Home Scheme proposal and state requests are noted as the board considers expedient actions.
A medical superintendent argues a new concrete hospital should replace the timber building. He cites higher costs and difficulties securing proper trades, noting August statistics show 4053 inpatients daily and urging planning for a ward that doubles capacity with safer, more durable construction.
Disjointed text references wheat purchases and barrels, mentioning naval supply and Commonwealth dispossession. Specifics are unclear due to garbled OCR. The fragment hints at barley or wheat quantities and barrel handling in a wartime or colonial provisioning context.
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