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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 11, 1946
Page
1
Finder apply this office for reward. For sale valve dual wave cabinet model Drammond Wireless. A. Current. App'y KE. Ryan, Box 0, Cloncurry.
A send-off was held for Mr. O Anderson Inspector of Mines in Rockhampton after he temporarily relieved at the district and now becomes permanent following the death of Mr. Herbert Redmond. Local officials and mining community speakers praised his abilities and welcomed Mines Inspector Eric Foote while paying tribute to Mr. Jones services.
At midnight Mrs Tess Keogh awoke to a two story Lime Show building scene. She found a large snake under the house attacking a kitten as Mother Puss defended her brood. Miss Keogh killed the reptile with a giddea stick. The creature was dragged outside and measured to twelve feet in length.
Mr and Mrs Eric Foote arrive with Mr James and their daughter and son Will Lake to take up residence at the Mine Howse Clonetirry.
Warnings from J R Bishop of Kauri Timber and Sir Walter Massey-Greene alert on lost postwar export potential due to industry disruption. Strikes threaten orders from BP and others for railway lines and heavy equipment for Middle East, China, Egypt, Java. If trends continue Australia risks remaining an wool wheat and meat exporter, not a diversified industrial economy.
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