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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 05, 1940
Page
2
Notice requires all persons entering LANARK Selection Tommy's Creek to give notice at the Homestead. Any person cutting fences driving stock or leaving gates open on this holding without authority will be prosecuted. Barton.
Justice warning from O B Jaqo manager warns trespassers against interfering with stock on Rock Lands Holding. The notice states prosecution for trespass.
Notice recalls Myr tle Evelyn Sorensen who died January 1933 with family expressions of remembrance. The page notes stock movement regulations in the shire under Shire Clerk O Callaghan, with a £50 breach penalty, and lists goodwill messages from firms and individuals including Senator Foll and Thos A. Foley.
The Bazaar raffle results list prizes won by Miss Iris Cann Mrs M Collins Miss F A Garvey Miss E Smith and Miss M Calahan all from local venues. The committee thanks the public for support during the year.
The Church of St Andrew Cloncurry schedules Xmas Eve Holy Communion at 1:30 AM and 10 AM Sunday School, with 8 PM Evensong on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day offers 6:30 AM Holy Communion, 1:30 AM Holy Communion, 10 AM Children’s Service, and 4 PM Evensong. St Stephen’s Day on December 26 lists 10 AM Holy Communion.
A Brisbane buyer documents the high railage cost on a parcel weighing about one hundredweight. The same article from Tweed Heads to Caloundra would incur far lower charges due to coast shipping competition. The writer urges politicians and railways to prove their value amid rising competition from motor transport taxed under the Heavy Transport Act.
At about 245 p m on New Year’s Day a train shunted in the local yards. A fireman found a man dragged by a truck and halted the engine. Thomas Finlay, 30, a Bowen native, died two hours after ambulance attendance. he claimed to have attempted to jump aboard the moving train and was dragged under the trucks.
In a Townsville court on January 2 1940 James Charles Thompson of Brisbane and Henry Williams of Charters Towers admitted stealing a carton of Fosters Lager im14 sardines and 72 tins. They were fined five pounds each with restitution and an additional month in jail if unpaid. The case ties to a fatal railway yard incident linked to the robbery authorities said.
The Afton Downs flock agisted on Kingsfield for eight months has returned home as drought eased with rain in the Hughenden district. About 12 000 sheep benefited, with losses small and roughly 25 percent of grown lambs sent back to Afton. Storms in Tull Creek country produced limited rain but improved surface water and pasture across Cloncurry district. Sheep owned by Mr Knox of Richmond district, agisted on Agate Downs near Kuridale, returned home. The second mob with Drover Hansen was driven downriver to Cloncurry and trucked on Wednesday last.
Christmas week in Cloncurry passed quietly as many traveled to the coast for cheap excursions. Despite this shops reported strong sales on late shopping night and crowds filled the streets. The New Year arrived without fuss and the town looked for brighter times amid wartime gloom.
Rain has fallen across much of the Cloncurry district with Quamby reporting over one inch on several occasions and Clonagh station noting recent storms. Cloudy skies from the Gulf suggest general rains may begin soon. Mrs Long and two children plan a coast holiday before continuing education at Brisbane schools after. The Battle family daughters from Cloncurry are holidaying with their parents.
The article urges discipline in the Australian Imperial Force noting the First AIF’s success due to quiet discipline. It highlights many Australian nurses offering to join the 2nd AIF Nursing Service and confirms strict medical exams for entrants. Nurses from the last war aid canteens and have formed their own comforts fund.
Public notice from Queensland authorities announces the inauguration of short wave transmissions to the world in several languages this week. A second notice lists debt payments due before December 1, 1889, to the Local Deputy Public Curator Townsville or Clerk of Petty Sessions, for the estate of John Humphrey Drury trading as J and W Drury.
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