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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 17, 1939
Page
7
Notice that Charleville Council intends to borrow £250 from the Queensland Treasurer to defray costs of proposed work. Plans and estimates are open for inspection. The Minister for Health and Home Affairs granted a special benefit to the town. By order of Town Clerk R. Macklin.
A cryptic entry lists Local Authorities Elections 1939 and mentions Tun Mare with a figure 1930.7 0. EASTON. etarning Officer. The fragment provides minimal readable facts about officials or dates.
Norman Jean Ware leads division candidates in a postal ballot process with two polls. Postal ballots close at 1 PM in the Charleville Post Office and Murweh Shire Council office, in mid April.
A Brisbane notice from March 1939 invites tenders with a 1 percent deposit and a 2/1 per tender price, addressed to the Secretary J Grant-Thomson. It warns the tender may be accepted or rejected and specifies that envelopes be endorsed Tender for Joe 13-Wrervoranka. Also advertised is a large double room to let near a private dining room on the Bandry railway, suitable for a couple with no children.
Tenders, suitably endorsed, are invited and will be received up to Friday, 7 April, for the construction of a dragtype gravel spreader from material to be supplied by the Council. Plans and specifications may be inspected at the Town Hall. The lowest tender will necessarily be accepted.
Tenders are invited and will be received up to 11 am Friday 7th April 1939 for iron work pointing and steel ing picks and related items for May 1939. Also notices on rubbish removal at Downett Depot with Monday and Wednesday drop offs between 1 and 5 pm. Town Clerk R Macklin directs. Separate tenders for painting the power house manager residence and for alterations will close on Friday 7th April next. Specifications at Town Hall. security deposit required.
The clipping lists multiple short notices: to let a furnished double room with breakfast and kitchen access in Edward Street. requests for a horse inn in the countryside. a family seeking a residence. a couple with one child aged ten seeks a fiat. sale of a gramophone with HMV records. and a mixed business for sale with contact Boyes in Conradt.
The notice states that termers and council candidates are listed for Charleville Town, with six council seats and the mayor to be elected. Polls open at court house Alfred Street on the fifteenth day of April from 9 am to 8 pm, voting compulsory. Candidates named include Dowald James Allen and George Martin Spie among others.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention St Marys Roman Catholic Church and All Saints Church in England with daily communion at 7 a.m. weekly service times and Lent observances. Names and places appear unclear but indicate church activities and schedules.
The Shire Council opposes a £2400 annual payment now and proposes a total £4000 per year as the new hospital is built, plus Bowry expenditure on water facilities and road work. Travel details note planes Charleville to Sydney depart 5.20 am, arriving 6.30 pm Tuesday and Friday, with Sydney fares £10 single and £18 return. reservations advised with George Herre.
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