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Newspaper
Brisbane Courier Mail
Location
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 17, 1933
Page
16
A tongue in cheek collection of classified ads and notices from a town government gazette listing job openings and appointments. Includes hospital and accountant posts with salary details, residence provisions, and application instructions. Mentions Camooweal and district, medical officer, maternity allowance, and closing dates.
A flood of SITUATIONS VACANT notices lists opportunities across farming, domestic service, sales, engineering, and clerical work. It features positions for farm hands, housekeepers, waitresses, salesmen, machinists, inspectors, and garden staff, with references, retainers, commissions, and immediate starts.
A collage of Brisbane adverts details numerous institutions offering classes in shorthand typing accounting and various trades. Companies include McCabe Academy Courter Bidg and Stott's College Brisbane with programs in driving radio and office skills. Advertisements claim high placement rates and affordable tuition with several campuses listed along Adelaide Street and Queen Street.
The Commonwealth Weather Bureau Brisbane chart notes a large anticyclone centered near Kangaroo Island and a southern V depression influencing western and southeastern Australia. Rainfalls in Queensland are listed by division with many stations recording measurable totals. Conditions expected include cool to warm trends, with fresh southeasterly winds along the Pacific coast and showers over tropical areas.
A garbled note lists individuals and firms including Rothwell Champ Edwards and Rowsema, with scattered terms like Kitchen ASU and Unis. The legible fragments suggest a business or agency context but lack coherent arrangement or clear actions.
Leads list of professionals incl surveyors jewelers electrical contractors and dentists with names such as Cyril Fo Beuuect and H A. Medical and legal services are noted alongside insurance brokers and patent attorneys. Mentions Bank of Adelaide and Queen Street locations with scattered addresses and product mentions like rubber goods and vulcanite.
Evening sessions and Saturday workshops offer free instruction in arts and crafts at Exton's 339 Queen Street with Marel Haney guiding. Participants can learn sketching and creative techniques in a neighborhood program.
WANTED TO BUY. If for 120 words, then d per tine Pact Mr and Mrs Jack Taare Brisnaie dealers offer highest price for wearing apparel and word over bed total time art. artificial teeth portable property including minor mr BAST Achaea 372 Georges Gt Highret prices ladies and gents apparel old gold and other articles Momer advanced Se t. prices cart off clothing kines Mire Viney 219 Brunewirk yer nid gold silter antiques eut Glaka crockeryware linen Mise Mel vers Schurecks $40 Petrie Bight THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME may appear in today's classified diversionment Make a habit of Joking through venom
Veifor 1a words and plant items listed with per line prices and phrases about dry season prep. Mentions buyers and street addresses for garden goods and mower repairs. Includes references to seeds, plants, lawn care, and garden requisites with contact details and shop names.
Fragmented OCR listing multiple optometrists and eye testing services in Brisbane. Mentions Hibernian Building Adelaide Street, Commercial Bank Chambers Queen Street, National Bank near Queen Street, and various practitioners offering sight testing, spectacles, fittings, replacements, and same day service with modest prices. Includes scattered names and addresses with incomplete details.
A fragmented notice lists several lost items and rewards including a foetus, a pug, and a dog. Names M. G. Noble and Kedron address Firat Avenue appear in the readable portion. The text is garbled but indicates a reward offered and a location of contact.
An OCR filled notice lists farm machinery dealers and metal works across Brisbane and Queensland towns. It cites suppliers such as Williams Montague Road Grubane and Co, Wilson Marine, Burgess patent coolers, and multiple engine and dairy equipment outfits. Tender closing October 13. Apply Boz 154 G-P-O.
Advert promising cash for gold sovereigns and jewellery with high prices. Mentions A Helmer Metropolitan Building Adelaide Street opposite City Hall and Brisbane Gold Buyers in Heindorff House Queen Street offering top rates and watch repairs, seeks customers to bring items for record prices.
Ho tels for sale in Queensland by Pot ter Co tele graph Chora 7 Queen St Brisbane. Established over 12 years with post office and dance hall attached. Hotel in good sound condition on busy male Found trade improving daily. Price £1350 deposit £43 balance £2 per week. Contact Gil ford Kelly Co 181 Alber St and St James. See W H Porter at Winter Garden for details.
Harold Webster of Whinstones advocates Colonel Annand’s plan for modern fast vehicular ferries along the Brisbane River. He cites Hamilton and Bulimba as examples and urges ferries at Hamilton, Bulimba, New Farm, and Creek Street with duplicate craft to maintain service during overhauls, noting past transport delays.
A Brisbane reader urges enlistment of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith as an aviation instructor or director for the Commonwealth Government noting his extensive experience in Australia and abroad. The letter also suggests a national fund or “Smithy” boxes to show admiration and aid his future work.
Tha Prentice of Lutwyche argues Queensland must unite chambers and export groups to better advertise Queensland goods. He praises Mr Pike's window exhibit in London and calls for a coordinated effort with Chamber bodies to represent export and import activity, using agent-general resources. He urges Wake up Queenslanders, show what the country can produce.
John F Ko ech discusses a Barcelona invention for splinterless glass using separately coated glass sheets with celluloid sandwiched inward and a fluid or solid filler. The method aims to produce safe windscreens for upcoming tram cars, noting British practice and cost variation by thickness.
A fragment praises Smithy for courage and capability while urging memory of the whould anch general cargo’s deeds. The text remains incomplete but notes a ship’s appearance and a sequence of actions tied to maritime operations.
A reader recalls a dramatic meteor shower over Europe on Monday night October 9 and quotes astronomer A K Chapman suggesting the spectacle may have occurred only once in a generation since 1866. The letter memories a Midlands England family waking in the early hours to view the bright lights from a long stair climb to watch the sky.
A letter from Merrylands argues that Sydney Technical College sets higher qualification standards for health inspectors than Queensland. It contrasts Sydney’s three to four year course with Brisbane’s shorter program, urging Queensland and Brisbane to raise their entrance and training requirements to ensure adequate public health service.
Mrs Elizabeth Turner thirty eight from Thomas street West End stumbled as she alighted from a tram in Grey street South Herighane yesterday morning and fell to the roadway. Ambulance attendants treated head injuries and shock and she was conveyed to Ceners Hospital in a not serious condition.
A promotional note extols King Tea blending and packing in Queensland. It urges daily saving habits and highlights tea as a staple, claiming the tea offers higher value per pound and fresher fragrant quality for households.
A 53 year old woman describes remarkable energy gains and easier stair climbing after six months of Kruachen Salts, with no diet change. She reports shedding about seven pounds and improved mobility, noting better overall health and dancing enjoyment.
Read Mr Brett's letter about relief from joint pains and rheumatism through De Witt Kidney and Bladder Pills. The ad claims the pills cleanse poisons like uric acid to end agony and restore health, urging sufferers to try the remedy.
Mr John A Brett of 232 John Street reports severe pains from hip to leg eased by De Witt Kidney and Bladder Pills. He finished one bottle with relief and a second bottle completed the cure, noting no return of muscular rheumatism and plans to recommend the remedy widely.
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