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Newspaper
Bowen Independent
Location
Bowen, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 30, 1939
Page
2
Notice invites to a social gathering on September 1 featuring a "guy time" and mentions the destroyer Voyager being in port. The fragment signals a community notice likely from a local newspaper brief.
Ambulance attended Mer finda today after Arthur Jensell suffered a punctured wound to the right hand from a bullock horn. After first aid he was taken to hospital and later discharged home.
At the adjourned council meeting on Tuesday an increase of 4d in the £ Special Loan Rate was set to meet loan commitments. The General Rate remains at 1d, other rates unchanged from last year. The Special Lighting Rate dropped by 2d. The loan rate rises to 0l in the £ amid a heavy three year loan program. Alderman Darwen urged discussion of accelerating rate discounts to 10 percent if paid within 40 days.
Town Council nears end of patience over garden plot damage by stray stock. It calls for applications by Saturday for a part time herdsman to impound stock straying in town streets. Pay is per head for horses and cattle. The move aims to beautify streets and prevent further expense.
The report lists tidal heights and amplitudes with times and figures. High and low values are shown for morning and afternoon sessions, including measurements around 1800 feet and 1010 feet in some entries, with additional low and high readings recorded in the sequence.
The report describes a dry southerly wind shifting to a porther Ty with milder conditions. It notes gloomy prospects for Milo and says the countryside could use a good washing. Temperatures trend toward the upper 30s to 50s with a high around 33 and a low near 58.
The fragment mentions Miss Tat Roughfedge as a guest of Mire Turnley and Mr Toho Scandrett planning a holiday visit to England next week. It notes Scandrett as a young Englishman farming locally for two years and references A. H. W. Cunningham preparing to attend Amateur Week in Townsville.
The Cozy Dell ad announces a cake flag event on Saturday with plain Crolt cake in Oth blackw. Cakes are priced. sponge sandwiches mock cream topping 2 shillings each. Kanee Rinails 1 shilling 6 pence per dozen. Pastries jams hamburgers offered fresh on Saturday morning, prepared on site by a certified cake maker and pastry cook.
At the adjourned nonunl meeting the Town Council unanimously voted to raise the mayoral allowance from £100 to £150 per year. Alderman Michael said the mayor had delayed his time and missed work to attend council business and head Subscription Masti. The Town Clerk stated the increase would not affect the budget proposals. Mayor Alderman B. W. Ruswell left the room during the vote and returned stating he would have accepted the increase if consulted.
Sailor Edward Joseph Coll, visiting from Anteb, broke the left side window of a Ford V-8 owned by Bir A Bott outside Godifallow Hull while a dance was in progress. Convicted on a summary charge, he was fined £5 with £2 12s 0d restitution and four weeks with hard labour in Towndale Gaol.
Market reports show a definite rise in demand and prices for tomatoes in Brisbane amid dwindling local supplies and declining quality. Growers urged to sell promptly while noting cooler weather delaying (or reducing) crop maturity across districts. prices for cucumbers and other produce varied with region and quality.
Classified brief notes that The Bowen Independent lists typewriter ribbons available in bundles of four for sale. The notice specifies item, quantity, and source newspaper.
Engineer Strauss of the Irrigation and Water Supply Dept told a Water Authority meeting that Bowen’s water is nearly perfect and clearer than ever. He proposed rapid piping and a new well capture system to boost capacity, plus an emergency river bed jump to ease pumping strain while plans proceed.
A chaotic late news round from London Berlin Paris and Rome cites Hither Henderson and a forced reply exchange. Reports claim Italian fascist attack and French claims of a Polish threat while Moscow hints at surprises and garrisons on the Western frontiers. Britain France and Belgium mediate hoping for calm as Chamberlain and Halifax discuss the German reply and Cabinet expected to act.
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