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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1950
Page
4
Brisbane race card lists acceptances and barrier details at Albion Park for Sixth, Fifth, Third, and Fourth Divisions. Notable runners include Sarton, Paul Denis, Gallant Company, Dainty's Queen, Royal Meteor, and Frescano across multiple heats from 1 p m to 4 55 pm with distances of seven furlongs and one mile 57 yards.
A crowded Randwick card lists juveniles and three year olds in December events. Notable runners include Noble Love Fourth Dimension Evangeline Val Cask Oreel Merry Archer Nordak Pausing High Merit Tacana Pittura Make Merry Nidhaul Wyndle Shore Beuddle Mon BSlon and more in various furs and distances.
Melbourne racing entries list barrier positions and horse names for the First Youthful Stakes at five furlongs and other events including Second Youthful Stakes, Wardle two miles, Parkville Handicap on one mile, and related supports. Notable names include Anton Prince Carnival Prince Friar's Hope Prince Revelry Captain Hunter Fakir Mastertouch Old Colonist Helen's Joy Domicile Grand Ridge Generous and many more.
Brisbane wards Wardu and Gal Upall lead the betting slips with Sea Wolf and Golden Bird in Sydney. Melbourne features Rhodes and Generous while Villiers offers Humming Tops Veiled Art 3 and Field Boy 4 as top picks.
John MacDonald, maker of the Macdonald Paley, provides captions for photographs and pricing. Special line highlights a counterlining specialty and a special cut price of 30/-.
At the Jubilee Celebrations Sub Committee meeting held in the Council Chambers on Friday evening the Shire Clerk proposed a four to five day Easter carnival including a race meeting sports day rodeo and show with a ball and dances for evening entertainment Other agenda items include prize essay on local history publication of council minutes and plans to commemorate local aviation history through a Cloncurry airfield play and related events.
Notices from managers of Clonagh Gipsy Plains Jersey Plains Rock Lands Fort Constantine Mindie Round Oak and Devoncourt warn that trespassers shooters cattle or timber cutters will be prosecuted. All authorities require permission and notify the public to avoid entering or interfering with stock or property across these named properties.
A discussion of modern police methods stressing card index filing and fingerprint analysis. It notes how operation patterns guide investigations, compares deduction to scientific checking, and cites Dillinger and a postwar English murder to illustrate fingerprint limits and reliability.
Investigators from the Driver Improvement Bureau and the State Department of Education compare trained and untrained teen drivers born 1929 to 1611. Results show trained drivers far safer in crashes and traffic offenses, with education stressing limits, psychology, and responsible driving behavior.
Drovers passing through Mon Straven must give notice and obtain permission to take a short cut along River 15. The permit is cancelled. Drovers must stay on the Stock Route or face prosecution. Signed W. J. Parker, Monstraven.
Classified style notices announce bicycle overhaul and enamel work, a partly erected concrete dwelling inquiry, and a ripe mangoes sale by Henry Martel with clerk contact for further particulars.
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