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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 18, 1937
Page
9
fragmentary OCR shows team play events with numbers and possessions, plus advertising lines for shaving cream washing powder soap and cosmetic items. Names appear as garbled tokens and a few items reference lip products and household goods. The readable portion hints at a basketball or team sports summary with implied scores and possessions.
The Quilpie Shire Council held its usual monthly meeting with members C H C Pegler chairing and others in attendance. Topics covered include accounts, aerodrome plans, telegraph pole costs, health inspections, land and reserve matters, dogger policy, water fees, tenders for wells, stock routes, and notices on projectors and telephones.
Quilply Hospitals Board met to amend by law on member travelling expenses. Murphy moved pay for all members travel by public conveyance with sixpence per mile for other travel and caps at fifty pounds yearly. Devyer amendment for chair out-of-pocket expenses failed. motion carried.
The streamlined locomotive, valued at £180,009, is nearing completion at Newport works and will pull the non stop Sydney Limited to Albury. One of two Pacific type engines converted for the service, it is partly enclosed in a steel sheath to cut wind resistance and has just undergone a trial run.
Council records cover telephone and water pressure issues at McMahon’s bakery, irrigation valve installation, financial cash book totaling 324/2/1, tractor use on the Thargomindah to Toompin West-West Moblereek roads, staff changes, horse agistment rates, main road funding requests for 1937-44, a poal tender, and contractor notifications for Gunnadorah Bridge and sewaries tenders.
At the Friday meeting Charleville Town Council debated buying three Saanen goats to improve stock. Ald. Gardiner and Falkenmier urged purchasing three bucks and supporting owners who prove care and reporting, while Ald. McGregor questioned stock improvement without culling. The motion passed with Mayor, Gardiner, and Falkenmier voting affirmative.
Notable Australian droving feats include C and W Macdonalds 1000 cattle and 100 horses from Queensland to Fossil Downs Western Australia, three years on the road with 13 horses lost and several deaths. Jerry Conolly drove 1200 bullocks across 90 miles to Muswellbrook after floods. Mick Durack and Tom Kilroy Lewy led 2500 miles from Queensland to Ord River in 1885 over two and a half years.
Mr. George Foote’s Kelpin won a double at the Tambo emits races last weekend and has since 1930 recorded over a dozen wins, seconds, and thirds with only one unplaced finish.
A man aged 50 to 60 was found dead on Sunday in a shallow disused mining shaft about a mile from Maryborough Victoria. The head bore axe blows believed to have occurred two days earlier. The identity of the victim was not known.
A NSW subcommittee on electoral reform is expected to advise reducing seats from 96 to 70, mainly impacting the metropolitan area. The government is likely to back the proposal, with a bill to follow after the House reconvenes.
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