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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 21, 1951
Page
1
A ragged notice sheet warns trespass and littering will be prosecuted. It lists names and places including Lanark Hy Ss Cucen Duet Bive and Strathfield with threats of action by managers and local authorities. Cricket notes follow, detailing Mount Isa vs Cloncurry results and local club actions.
Passions across travel romance and comedy headline a Friday and Saturday run with Doris Day and Oscar Levant among strong cast. Anne Crawford and Jimmy Haney lead a second feature with a tragic romance and Bruce Bennett compass. Gene Autry fans chapter in with Riders of the Whistling Pines on Monday, paired with State Department File 689.
Applications are invited for the position of waterer lighter for work in Burke Shire. Applicants must provide details of experience and qualifications. Applications close with T. A. Wolte, shire clerk.
Mixed classified fragment shows Franks Leather Stores offering upholstery services and samples, plus a memorial notice for Michael Joseph Burke aged by family. Mentions address 1061 and 1056 locomotives produced in the United States era, and a printing attribution for the Cloncurry Advocate.
The article notes stable wool values with price falls from peaks in late 1950 and early 1951. It cites 64s lopmaking merino fresco wool in Sydney stores at 60 percent below that period and 40 percent under December 1950, with 23 percent higher versus December two years prior. It discusses production shares, costs of manufacturing, and the role of apparel wool in global supply, plus near-term sales and center auctions from February.
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