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Edited news file 61
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TitleEdited news file 61SummaryNQTV News stories compile.ContentsMentally handicapped girl’s body found on the 8th of October in Trinity Beach, Mr Bruce in custody -- Mosquito offensive to eradicate Dengue, also Ross River virus, residents encouraged to help eliminate breeding grounds to control the virus -- 30km road built by Cairns development company, act called vandalism, logging continues in the Daintree rainforest despite opposition -- CSR Innisfail Goondi Mill closed, low sugar prices, John Keren announces $200, 000 funding, interview with John Demsey -- Cairns Central Business District Association supports open slather trading to extend retail trading hours, asks for the area to be recognized as a tourist precinct, allowing store owners to open when they wish -- Boost in tourism industry in Cairns CBD allowing more to buy their own homes, interview with Mayor Ron Davis -- Mr Bruce to face trial for murder in the 22nd February next year -- Foster children enter CASS program, participate in rowing trip, children interviewed -- Record sports sponsorship, $100,000 from Daikyo to Rugby league club Ivanhoe -- Daikyo’s Mr Yokoyama accepts rejection of tourist resort, accepts $50 million golf course between Clifton Beach and Palm Cove -- Truck spill of gypsum on the Sheehy road near Whiterock, police clear hazard of the slippery substance, warn truckdriver to secure their cargo -- Mulgrave Shire Council chairman Tom Pyne participates in pedicab Grand Prix, 25% of proceeds from sports betting and prize money to go to charity -- In light of the Reef Link 2 disaster, Hayles acquires new $3.2 million catamaran that is fireproof and has seat located life jackets to ferry passengers to Norman Reef via Green Island, interview with company representative -- Mayor and Chairman’s Cheer Appeal 1987 headed by Cairns Mayor Ron Davis and Chairman Tom Pyne accept donations from Pacific Hotels Director Mark Cansler, Mayor celebrates by spreading margarine on a bread roll, from a reindeer and sleigh sculpture sculpted out of margarine -- Former Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen advocates timber industry‘s interests at rally to fight world heritage listing in Mulgrave and Tablelands -- Railway workshops and marshalling yards up for sale, to be commercially redeveloped -- Cairns blood bank visited by HMAS Cairns Navy members at Cairns Base Hospital Christmas appeal for more donors -- Gold mines to be opened in far north, 150 set to be employed Corporate AuthorNQTVVideo File Name4022279Original Format 1/2 inch video tape Beta camCollation1 video file (MP4) (24 minutes) : digital ; 834MBDate1987ImprintTownsville : NQTV, 1987
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Edited news file 61 (1987). Townsville City Council, accessed 25/04/2026, https://stories.townsville.qld.gov.au/nodes/view/23053
