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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 14, 1938
Page
5
Readable fragments discuss culling flocks to prevent disease and conserve resources. Mentions wool quality, climate impact on fleece, and decisions affecting ewes in Sherp Central districts. Notes furthers of breeding and management amid harsh conditions.
Fat stock quotations show cattle prices easing with light and prime aged beasts down to about 22s to 37s for various classes. Sheep numbers total around 4,900 medium quality, with bids from Western and South West districts. wool values mixed and quotes recorded by Primary Producers Co operative Association and Bowra Pastoral Co teams for suppliers including Charleville and Cunnamulla.
A catastrophic railway wreck left thirteen dead and twelve injured when a long goods train was shunted onto the main line. The express locomotive driver reportedly leapt clear as the two trains collided, causing a violent wreck and telegraphed carriages.
At a Chadeyne Town Council meeting the clerk reported on a health department visit and a conference on a proposed £45,600 sewerage loan. Debentures over 3 1/2 years at 4 1/2 percent would back the scheme, with hospital precepts and local authority contributions under review.
Shamokin residents publish appeals from the medical department and others seeking information on an Australian soldier wounded in France around October 1918 and his potential pension. They request details from anyone who can locate relatives of soldiers and offer a note about Mrick Brensing, wounded in the Great War, last heard from Thursday Island. The item references Army accounting anomalies and inquiries into missing kin of Allied troops in WWI.
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