Shire Council meeting discusses hall tariffs and repairs
At the April 12 meeting the council set hall charges for police dances bazaars and visiting shows. Rehearsals and supper room rates were fixed with writing-required bookings. Crossings roads and swimming baths were noted for future work while dingo control and burr destruction were funded. Chairman Boyd thanked councillors before adjourning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moday
Council Board
Weber
Butru
Wills River
Warenda
Selwyn
Irrigation Department
Mt. Isa
Main Roads Board
Leichhardt River
Returned Soldiers’ League
Dalgetys reports hides sales with varied prices
Dalgetys special report shows about 6500 hides passing forward with softer demand and lower values. Reports list free lines and ticked hides by weight, with price ranges for light, medium, and heavy hides, yearlings, and farmers hides, plus miscellaneous skins and tallow quotes. An official opening of Shire Hall is noted for Cloncurry on April 27 1939 and a pastoral lease notice for Violet Down block at Burketown.
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Shire of
Cloncurry
M. O'Callaghan
Violet Down
Dobbyn
Burketown
Burkletown
Manifesto from Labor Candidates in No 4 Division
The endorsed Labor slate for No 4 Division asks ratepayers to back their platform as most practical and progressive. They fault past representation over roads, malls, and traffic after rain, urge urgent attention to district wells, and call for immediate action on the Dingo menace, promising to support these aims in the new council.
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Dld
D. I
Gulf
Quamby
Cloncurry
Cloncurr
Queensland
Orijn
No. 4
Labor Party Promises Complete Programme for Council Election
Endorsed Labour candidates urge support for a full Labour plan they claim is the only complete program for the council. They tout good roads clean wells pest control and local job creation with a balanced budget and emphasis on permanent works over costly repairs.
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LABOR
Cloncurry Candidates Endorse ASP Platform Seek Harmony
W A Rose T D Armstrong C Br Katten endorse the ASP platform for No 1 Division. They pledge fair play and justice, urge cost reduction, local labour preference, permanent road works, and wiser water and ore policy. They promise expert water advice, a new water system, smelter development, and a secondary school.
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Cloncurry
Numerus
Ihs
Ona
Govt
Shire of
Blackfoot Dance Adopts New Tune in Cultural Mix
Indian agents describe the Lamberth Walk as a Blackfoot horn dance in an adapted form. George Goderham notes Blackfeet traditionally resist white dance crazes yet accept this version. The favorite tune stems from a popular white man’s melody, becoming the so called Blackfoot Floogie with Floy Floy.
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George Goderham
Enlightenment
Goderham
Nomination for No 3 Division Cloncurry Candidate Plan
Devoncourt advocates in 1939 for No 3 Division road improvements and lower rates. He pledges to fix cross creeks and Wills River crossing, employ local labor on roads, and curb weeds while running the repayers business efficiently.
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Wills River
Butru
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Advocate
Burr
Malbon
Kuridala
Land Administration Board
Boyd
Thia
Dalgety
Sheepshing
Shire Hall
CROWN
Calgary
Canada
Royal Hotel
AW &J Refrigerator
Fhyllis Hawes
Bing
Call Hal Delaney
Hope
Beas Adveri
Eletors
W. N. Hutton
T.” M. Lynch
Watson
Scarr Street, Cloncurry
NO 3
Ladies and Gentlemen
B.pig
T. Woodhouse
J. Tunny
C. Walton
Scarr Strest
Shire OF Cloncurry
C. BR
Katter
T. D. Armstrong
Ocouncillora
W. A. Rose
T. D. Armstrong, C. Br, Katter
C. Watson
Scarr Street
Division
Hugh M.master
Divizies
Gelwyn
April Ath
Ss SS
A. Webb
Waure
T. E. Ticehurst
Roderick Parker
Dan Lynch
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