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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 15, 1947
Page
1
Spectacle Makers lists eye health event tours at multiple towns. Clinics run in Mt Isa Mon 15 Sep and Tue 16, Smitivs Totel Sep 17–18, Cloncurry Sep 19–21, Julia Creek Sep 22–23, Richmond Sep 24, Hughenden Sep 25–26, with locations at hotels and stores across Towneville area.
Notices warn trespassers across Clonagh Gipsy Plains Jersey Plains Mindie Mapperly and Lanark Relection Toramy s Creek Harewood Holding EVANDEAN Fort Constantine of prosecution for trespass theft stock interference and shooting. Reads as regional warnings from managers and owners including W Alman R Miller L L Shute Leo D Bode and R Darton.
In memory of old hands who praised the good old days in the West the writer recalls travels along Cloncurry’s watershed and contrasts city dwellers with frontier life. He notes British Empire aviation advances, pilots Robert Birch and Rolls Royce engines, and foreign air forces adopting British gear. The piece links nostalgia with aviation progress and ends with a note on the Sydney Zoo rhinoceros Rupert and a Canadian bears gift idea.
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