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• Double storey Block 5 bedroom spacious home

• Large modern kitchen, office & entertainment area

• 9,322sqm yard with established fruit trees & gardens

Total Land Area: 31.94 Ha = 78.92 acres* Usable Land Area: 30.28 Ha = 74.82 acres* Sale is on a W.I.W.O. basis which includes the 2023 sugarcane crop, already fertilised. Sales includes: Two combined lockable sheds – Total floor area 471.96 sqm*

• Solar power & solar hot water, Bore, town water & 3 bay enclosed shed

• Perfect home for a large/extended family

Auction: Saturday 11th March 2023 – 11am Onsite.

• Approx. 11.5km to Kurrimine Beach and Boat Ramp

$560,000 - List #1569 https://aarealty.net/rural/1569/

Owners, an offer may be accepted prior to Auction. *all areas approximate List #1597 https://aarealty.net/rural/1597/

Cleaner

Position vacant, permanent, 19 hours

Please contact Cardwell School administration via email to secure an application package for the above permanent position.

The hours will be afternoons only from Monday to Friday. You will be required to work within a team environment.

Mandatory paid Blue Card and Criminal History Check required for position.

Applications close 28th March, 2023

Email admin@cardwellss.eq.edu.au

Church times across the region

Tully Family Church, 9am, Sun, 2 Watkins St, Tully Cardwell AOG, 9:30am Sun, Shire Hall, Cardwell Mission Beach Family Church, 6pm, Sun, Unit 3, 2-4 Stephens Street, Mission Beach

Life Church, 10am, Sun, 28-32 Townsville Road, Ingham

Churches of Christ Care Rockingham Home Aged

AOG / ACC / Churches of Christ Baptist Family Centre Innisfail, 9:30am, Sun, 12 Tierney St, Innisfail Estate 6:30pm, Sun, Ladies Church Tully Baptist Church, 10am, Sun, 6 Plumb Street, Tully Cardwell Baptist Church, 11am, Sun, Bruce Highway, Cardwell Sugar Reef Baptist Church, 9:30am, S, “The Knightclub” 38 Herbert St, Ingham Baptist Independent, 11am, Sun, 77 Halifax Rd, Ingham

Care Service, 9am Fri, 3rd Fri of month, 40 Jamieson St, Cardwell

Catholic Churches

St Rita’s Babinda, 7am, Sun, 15 Church St, Babinda

Mother of Good Counsel, 6:30pm Sat Vigil, 9am, Sun, 90 Rankin St, Innisfail

Our Lady of Fatima, 10am, Sun, 32 Glasgow Street, El Arish, St John the Evangelist, 6pm, Sat, 4 Harold Street, Silkwood, St Rita’s South Johnstone, 7am, 1st, 3rd & 5th/month, 5 Green Street, South Johnstone Christ the King, 7am, 2nd & 4th/month, 10 Harbour Road, Mourilyan Holy Spirit, Mission Beach 7am Sun, 12 Webb Rd, Wongaling Beach

St Clare of Montefalco

Church, 6pm Vigil Mass, Sat 9am, Sun, 13 Mars St, Tully

Our Lady Star of the Sea, 5pm Sun (except 1st Sunday), 121 Victoria St, Cardwell Ingham Region Catholic

Parishes:

St Patrick’s, 8:30am, Sunday, 18 Abbott Street, Ingham St Peter’s, 7am, Sunday, 10 Scott Street, Halifax, Canossa Chapel, 10am, Sunday, St Teresa’s College / 3819 Abergowrie Rd

St Teresa’s, Trebonne, 10am

Seventh Day Adventist

Seventh Day Adventist Innisfail, 10:30am, Sat ,Bible Study, 11am, Sat, 114 Lawrence Road, Bamboo Creek

Tully Seventh Day

Adventist Church, Sat 9:30am Sabbath School, Sat 11am, 1 Edward St, Tully

Baptist Churches

Uniting Churches

Cassowary Coast Uniting Churchs: Innisfail, 10.30am, Sun, 8 Scullen Ave, Mighell, Innisfail Mission Beach, 8am, Sun, 2224 Tully-Mission Beach Rd, Mission Beach, Tully Tongan Uniting, 9am, Sun, 16 Mcquillan st,Tully, Ingham District Uniting

Churches: Ingham, 10am, Sun 16 Herbert St, Ingham Halifax, 8am, Sun 12 Anderssen St, Halifax Blue Haven Lodge, Ingham, 11am (2nd & 4th Tues)

Lutheran

St Marks Lutheran Church, 9am, Sun, 34 Townsville Road, Ingham Non-denominational

Empower Church Innisfail, 10am, Sun, 191-193 Mourilyan Rd, South Innisfail

Anglican Churches

St Albans Anglican Church, 9am, Sun, 83 Rankin Street, Innisfail

St John Anglican Church, 5pm, Sat, 2 Black Street, Tully John Oliver Feetham Pioneer Memorial 11am, Sun, 45 Bruce Highway, Cardwell

St John Anglican Church, 3pm, 3rd Sun of month, Motel Chapel, Kurrimine Beach Holy Trinity (Ingham) 6pm Saturday Service. 9am, Sunday. 37 McIlwraith Street, Ingham All Souls, 7.30am, Sun, 10 Four Mile Road, Victoria Estate

Greg Shannon GREG SHANNON

THIS time of year, with some slightly cooler mornings and good rainfall through February into March, it’s possible that there will be more flowering in the cane crop than there was in 2022.

Sugar Cane doesn't always flower. In fact, from a commercial point of view, we don't want it to flower too early because it means the crop has gone from a growing phase to a reproductive phase. In other words, it stops growing. From a plant breeding point of view, we do want the crop to flower!

Plants are stimulated to flower by many factors.

Fruit trees like Mangoes are stimulated to flower when they are moisture stressed, so when they are grown under irrigation, the water is turned off to dry them out, and the tree switches to a reproductive phase, i.e. flowers. This also happens in rain-fed areas when we get a drier winter and spring.

Some fruit trees, like stone fruit, need really cold weather to stimulate flowering, and the amount of cold weather required varies from 300- 800 hours. When cold weather stimulates flowering, we call it “vernalization."

Sugar Cane is a grass, and to make it flower we need shorter days with less sunlight and temperatures around 25 degrees Celsius during the critical time period from Mid-February to mid-March.

In 2022 we got some very hot days, above 32 digress Celsius in succession during February, which probably held back flowering. (Temperatures below 20 degrees Celsius will also reduce flowering, but there isn't much chance of that happening in the wet tropics in February!)

So far this year, we haven’t had those really hot days, and there have been many overcast days in the second half of February, so we may see some flowering this year.

The sugar cane flower is actually known as an inflorescence or arrow; hence the common name for cane flowering is 'arrowing". Inside the arrow are thousands of tiny flowers, each capable of producing a seed. These seeds are tiny, so small that it takes about