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Newspaper
Bowen Independent
Location
Bowen, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 19, 1916
Page
2
Arrivals show Bingera from Brisbane with passengers Masters A Bone Perkins Miss M Munro E Mosey Messrs D K Smith V Cleary T Atherton and 13 steerage. Departures list Bingera Townsville with all passengers.
Weather notices record disturbances northeast from Cardwell toward Cooktown and Bowen with a tropical center near Towneville moving southward into the Gulf area. A public health ad promotes Chamberlain s Tablets for constipation and bowel relief. Local notices report Captain Kelsey at a French hospital, Emu Plains rainfall, Bowen River season, and residents Rowan and Page planning changes.
Notices reveal land parcels 205 to 420 acres in the Andromache Parish along the Bodalla Amelia Vale track offered for Agricultural Farm and Perpetual Lease Selection at Proserpine Land Office on Thursday 11 January 1917 from 10 to 1. Also details on a land sale and a military camp cake drive appear amid various local notices and advertisements.
A dated notice from Bowen on December 12, 1916, lists multiple allotment parcels across sections 1, 60, 72, 78 and others, detailing subdivisions and locations. The text enumerates Allotments 1, 4, 5, 6, 11, 14, 16 across sections 1a, 1, 48, 60, 72, 78 with subdivision references, marking a formal land allotment declaration.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a price of 38 per ton in Pree Los Angeles with a mention of Gregory Giroat and Bawsa. The readable content is garbled and does not provide a clear event, date, or identifiable entities beyond scattered names. No verifiable facts to summarize beyond the damaged price cue.
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