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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 09, 1948
Page
2
Local items describe a water supply cut for transformer changeover, a school fencing approval between Cloncurry State School and residence, and reports on refrigerators purchased by council for consumers. The rest presents poem fragments and unrelated chatter on moral topics and monkeys.
Prancesso Umer, Austrian national born in Komen Austria, residing in Australia for decades, applies for naturalisation under the Nationality Act 1920 1990. Signed Francesco Vick. MARSUPIAL &KING. Local manager E Lemmon of Wilcox Mofflin notes a reported 104000 kangaroo and wallaroo purchases at Clonvirry depot for the year ending December 17.
Advertisement offers prepared poison baits for dingo control available on application to the Secretary Land Administration Board Brisbane 82 per case of about 225 batt raised free to the nearest station payment with application and exchange added to country cheques. Man killed at mine shaft on South January Nicholas Hotehemt Singh a native of Hol Baila died after stepping into an open stope while waiting for shots. He had been slightly injured in a mining accident the month before no relatives in Australia.
The body of John Thomas Flaherty a 4 year bachelor was found Tuesday afternoon floating in a waterhole near his camp at Kajabbi He was last seen Sunday and had not walked Monday or Tuesday Constable Blimke of Dobbyn took charge of the body and took it to Cloncurry for a post mortem The death was ruled drowning Flaherty a miner and fencing contractor in the Cloncurry district had lived with his brother Tim who died about three weeks earlier Funeral held in Cloncurry on Wednesday afternoon.
The Quamby State School raffle results list three prizes. First prize a Washing Machine to Tudith Claire of Jessievale ticket 16. Second prize a Ham to Mrs J McUrk of Cloncurry ticket 254. Third prize a Teapot to Mrs L Rooke Jnr of Cloncurry ticket 854.
The article criticizes high refrigerator prices in Queensland, noting profits of Charles Moore Ltd and Hope’s Cold Flame units sold to the military. It argues government aid should require affordable pricing and instalment terms to equip about 200,000 homes, condemning slow postwar refrigeration adoption and housing shortages.
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