YOU’RE INVITED TO THE SOCIETY’S APRIL LECTURE SERIES.

The Cairns Historical Society will be hosting it’s quarterly lecture series on Sunday 17th April from 2-4 pm in the Cairns City Library Meeting Room, in Abbott St. Entry is free and non-members are welcome to attend.

The series will have a medical theme, with Dr Graham Cossins presenting on general practice in Cairns in the second half of the 20th Century, Dr Nicky Horsfall speaking about her father’s experience as a Quarantine officer in the 1950s and Pauline O’Keeffe presenting on the involvement of Cairns’ nurses in WW1. Speakers will take questions from the floor.

Come along and hear a little of Cairns’ local history.