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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 31, 1931
Page
2
Official notice listing outstanding rates including sanitary charges as of December 1090 in the Shire of Barkly Tableland. Payment must be made by February 40th, 1084. otherwise legal proceedings will commence for recovery. B. H. Grayson, Shire Clerk.
Advertisement notes pumpkins for sale with price 15 shillings per hundredweight and 4 shillings per gross, freight extra to sidings. Orders to Aloy Pilcher at Peramee Pentland Queensland.
About 200 yearling rams from 1920 drop will be sent to Julia Creek Keswick property and pastured on Mr G S Clark. Rams arrive mid February and will be sold in rows to suitable purchasers.
Prices list eight ounce grade rams at six pounds delivered to Keswick and six ounce grade rams at four pounds eighty shillings delivered to Keswick. For further particulars apply Mr G H Clarke Keswick Jolla Greek.
The annual conference in Brisbane July 26 1920 approved minimum rates for Queensland provincial newspapers. Casual advertising rates set 5/6 per single column inch for first inch and 4/- for each additional inch. Theatrical company ads charged 6/- per inch with minimum two inches, no commission on such ads. A B Joseph Secretary Brisbane August 9 1920.
An Australian Workers' Union manifesto attacks Communist agitation in New South Wales and Queensland, urging shearers to take available work despite strikes and political pressure. It warns of a possible national strike on November 10 and calls for workers to support sheep owners during wool price distress.
Mosman Street Chant ers rowEns reports the Paragon Hotel in Townsville now run by Chas Burrows. The hotel has been thoroughly renovated and now offers boarding, a stylish wool lounge, and a selection of drinks and spirits for guests.
Entry required at Lan Ak Sel Ecip Om Homestead with stated modes. Fences cut gates left open or stock driven without authority will be prosecuted without respect to person.
The London Directory lists over 2000 trade headings for exporters importers steamship lines and dealers. Firms can print trade cards or seek agencies at set rates with parcels post copies available from The London Directory Co 185 Abchurch Lane London established 1815 published annually.
OT Andrews Church holds Holy Communions at 1.50 pm Sung Brotherist at 10.0 pm Evensong at 8 pm Presbyterian Church lists Australian Inland Mission minister Rev. O. M. Seat and Rev. O. Whitney with Sunday service at 10 pm Sunday School at 10 pm Methodist Inland Mission Cloncurry Rev Menbar 40 am Sunday School 7.40 pm Evening Worship Mt Isa Rev Br Hayes 10 pm Sunday School 1.40 pm No. 8 Ranch Sabot 7.40 pm Evening Worship.
A brief notepad entry titled Be Just and Fearful appears in a January 34 1034 issue. The item presents a moral maxim fragment without further context.
At a packed Innisfail Ratepayer Association meeting chaired by Mr A W Moore, members resolved to urge the Shire Council to hire a public accountant with local authority experience to audit the council and suggest efficiency improvements. The group also pressed for divisional representation before the next triennial elections.
A market report dated December 6 from Louden Mescot Brandeis Goldschmid and Co. notes Copper Exporters Inc. aims to push prices higher in the US while selling to Europe at or above 12.00 cents. It warns that sustained high prices curb consumption, swelling electrolytic copper stocks and risking losses for producers as US demand remains weak.
Dudley Dempsey narrowly escaped death when his motor lorry toppled twice on Hospital road in front of Mr Whitehouse’s house. He sustained a forearm wound needing nine stitches and other bruises, but left hospital the same evening. A kerosene tin filled with water was crushed in the wreck and the hood damaged.
The Morning Post recalls a Lord Roberts prophecy predicting a European war and a French general Fooh winning. A Lowrr Streck resident complains of riverbank scooping and semi-rural mini golf on Cloncurry streets. Salaries of A W U officials are cut by 10 percent, lowering Riordan and district salaries and angering workers. Isa and Woulherm News becomes a subscriber to the Advoontee.
At Agar Downs Kuridala on January 28 Marla dear wife of Panmbnagtys aged 7H mourned. Adjourned ratepayers meeting held in Glencurr Reading Room on January 25 1981 at 8 PM with minutes read and confirmed. Council correspondence discussed and letters sent to Shire Council requesting information and protesting fines. salaries in abeyance. closing fees to be sent. annual meeting for subscribers of Cloncurry School of Arts to be held February 12 at 8 PM.
A planned entertainment night will be held in Cowling's Hall on Friday to raise funds for Cloncurry Hospital. Organizer Mr Jeh urges attendance, noting admission will be fixed and no excuse will be accepted for absence as the hospital needs funds.
Notice to register transfers under the Real Property Act. Registrar Bradfield notes late aid and duplicate nomination issues for transfer No N86944 from Henry Alman to Gualun Resoal as trustee over Allotment 4 Section 95 Glencurry. Sundah Singh transfer N148627 appears in error. solicitors listed in Townsville.
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