CARGO FROM CAIRNS.

The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 7 June, 1907.

Yongala, ss, from Cairns, via ports: 2600 bgs sugar,

621 rails, 31 bales fish, 20 cs tins, 190 bgs

bones, 6 brs gold, 120 cs tomatoes, 550 cs pines, 50 cs

fruit, 55 bgs oysters, 130 cs glass, 20 bgs tin ore, 150

bales hides, 710 cs bananas, 58 bags hams and sundries.

This gives us an idea of goods shipped from Cairns to Sydney. Roughly 1000 tons - half of normal operating consignment. 

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It later developed into a railhead and major port for exporting sugar cane, gold and other metals, minerals and agricultural products from surrounding coastal areas and the Atherton Tableland region.

'agriculture on the lowlands (sugar cane, corn, rice, bananas, pineapples), and for fruit and dairy production on the Tableland.'

loading goods, Cairns Port - courtesy Queensland National Library.

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