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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 31, 1937
Page
1
Holy Communion at 7.40 gm with 10.00 a.m. service for adults and 4.00 p.m. Evensong. Rev. Thos. Hall leads Sunday School at 10.00 a.m. and church service at 5.00 p.m. at United Methodist Onlan. Glencurry and Rev. O. F. Willis oversee services with Sunday School at 10.00 a.m. and sermon quoted as "By Justi and Fear Not."
Minor injuries marked a football Saturday with players continuing after first aid. Les May suffered a serious head injury and was hospitalized. A child, daughter of Mr and Mrs Berry, broke an ankle while playing and was admitted after ambulance first aid. Charters Towers mourns the death of North West racing handicapper O T Langley, a longtime figure in regional racing.
Persons found tampering with or passing on Rocklands Holding street face prosecution warning by manager G B JaQg.
Local authorities investigate a trespass and fence breach at a duck shooting area in Dalgon Ally. Officials warn enforcement will prosecute anyone found hunting without a valid permit or special permission.
Lake Nash Station warns that trespassing, fishing, or shooting on Lake Nash will be prosecuted without respect to county rules. The manager requires notice before entry to the area.
Notices require all entrants to LANARK SelecUen Tommy's Crork to give Homestead notice. Any person crossing fences or driving through the holding without consent will be escorted out by authority.
Mr Henry Grant of the Cloncurry Motor Works advertises a Westing electrical testing and repair service at the Selwyn Hotel. He invites electricians to inspect the contrivances and offers estimates for repairs including wireless sets, freezers, irons, stoves, and other electric gadgets.
The week brings unpleasants winds from the south with frost and dust upsetting markets and homes. Gardeners along the river report frost but cabbage crops suffer from a brasshopper plague. Temperatures may rise to near 40 degrees by Sunday as conditions grow milder.
Jim Staunton wins the club rifle shoot at 300 yards and 600 yards as wind complicates targets. L Lather and T Robinson perform well under difficult conditions, with Macdonald as the eldest entrant posting 31 at 600 yards. Next week marks July and August competitions. results list last Sunday's scores across multiple ranges.
Attention horseowners. Dorses paddock on Tuesday next for Gloncurry Diggers races. Many horses are entered by Cloncurry. others have been promised by local riders. Secretary Bulley expects a good turnout. bring your horse to Mr Bulley for safe paddock, Tuesday and August 11 noted as nomination day. Also includes old time tonic advertisements and a to let notice for a furnished house opposite the railway station.
The Conegy Station reports 43039 sheep shorn for about 1000 bales of wool at an average of 20 shillings per bale, totaling around 20000 pounds for the year. Clonagh, owned by Scottish Australian Forest Company and managed by Mr G. AftMeck Slowfly, faces a severe blowfly outbreak causing widespread worry among shepherds amid warm winter rains.
Eight bottles of cough medicine cost a lot but a recipe yields eight bottles for the price of one. Mix with sweetened water and a tea shilling bottle of HEENZO to create an expansive supply for coughs colds croup bronchitis whooping cough and influenza. HEENZO is pleasant to take for adults and children.
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