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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 23, 1941
Page
2
A 4350 acre lease hold and fruit and vegetable garden is offered with unlimited water supply. It includes a windmill a 7 to luster engine and centrifugal pump two plough horns ploughs and complete gardening implements. Proximity is about two miles from the post office and railway station.
A brief notice records the address 430 Edward Street Brisbane and references persons MR and MRS L Bordon with price 2/6d and items noted as Peat Free. The fragment confirms a local transaction or listing in the urban directory.
Travelling stock move through Mindie prompted a public notice for adequate warnings at the Homestead. Wood-cutters and others are prohibited from entering without permission.
Persons in charge of travelling stock must give notice before entering Fishers Creek. Those not complying will be prosecuted without further notice. W. Helman
Legal notice from Lake Nash Station manager and R. Barton warns trespassers, fishing, shooting, or entering Lanark Selection and Tommy's Creek, must give notice at homestead. Anyone cutting fences driving stock or leaving gates open will be prosecuted.
A local notice from Cloncurry references a trial offering satisfaction guaranteed. Details include a P O Box 50 address and contact phone 12 for interested parties to inquire. The advertisement emphasizes confidence in service with a guaranteed outcome.
An advertisement invites private sale interest in a plano at a very low price. It directs inquiries to Mrs. E. Martyr near Jordan’s residence or a nearby office. The notice also promotes a free screening event by The Vacuum Of Coy at the Bio Theatre on Tuesday May 27.
The Cloncurry Patriotic Fund offers £2 to each district soldier heading overseas at the Q N Bank. Intertown cricket Sunday match features Messrs Savage through Keating against Knights of the Willow from Gilliat, with public invited. Fund donations listed include Carlton W., Railway Dept, State Public Service, Bank Staff, Trekelano Mine Syndicate, and others totaling £716 16 2. Golf results show F. Taylor and R. Hagen leading, with Hirst and Jordan winning the C H Ross Trophy. Handicappers active after Colonel Bogey loss.
The Cloncurry branch lists yearly donations to the hospital patriotic fund A A M Bouts at Kiss Point and other charities. A patient was sent to Brisbane at cost and the secretary Mrs J Lang is praised for her service. A free dance and community event is announced for Labour victory celebrations in the Shire Hall on Monday May 2001 with supper to follow.
National Trainee Lloyd Anderson, who declined the Oath of Enlistment on grounds of Christadelphian beliefs against oaths and arms, was sentenced by Magistrate Atkin to three months in jail. The sentence was deferred 14 days while a petition for exemption by the Christadelphian Church is considered. Drastic paper restrictions follow a rising shortage, targeting wrappers and writing materials.
Canberra imposes wide restrictions on tin plate to conserve stock for essential items. Canister makers are ordered to cease tin making for packing humorous commodities including tobacco cigarettes tea coffee cocoa and dry foods and toilet goods. Restrictions aim to save about 16 percent.
German airborn assault on Crete continues with British and Greek troops fiercely resisting. Mediterranean Fleet engages German ships attempting to land guns and tanks. Official counts show heavy German losses but no halt is expected. Parachutists largely destroyed or captured as the airborne battle intensifies.
The Dilly Express reports Hitler and Stalin plan a new alliance. The Express correspondent says they will meet in Poland to confirm the pact with Hitler eager for the development and possibly to fly to Moscow.
An Ottawa correspondent for the New York Times reports the Battle of the Atlantic has peaked with submarines attacking convoys farther north. He notes British patrols in the East Atlantic are forcing U boats to seek targets in distant waters.
The British Ministry of Shipping warns the shipping situation is grave and could become desperate unless losses are cut. Britain has suffered losses totaling 3,806,242 tons to date.
Britain extends air power with daylight strikes on Heligoland naval base and Bethune oil refineries. Bombs hit the Heligoland installations while machine gunners and bomb aimers targeted troops and fortifications during a low altitude attack.
The Prime Minister of Australia Mr Menzies arrived by air from America yesterday and will reach Rose Bay on Saturday afternoon for a visit likely to include Sydney events.
Vaughan Henry reports from Germany that Germans face air raid fear, show widespread disillusion with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, and express rising unrest and anxiety amid the border survey conducted for the New York Post.
Henry notes a Berlin speech by Goebbels on Wednesday urging Germans to bolster preparations for defense against raids. The remarks illustrate widespread pressure on civilian resistance and complaints during the period, underscoring the galvanizing rhetoric.
Social notes recount visits and departures among residents including Mesars E T Anderson F B Hope W Anderson and Cleve Trenfield after the Longreach Show. Many others plan trips between Townsville Brisbane Richmond and Southport with family movements and Red Cross involvement noted.
Whifflers Tips lists two year entries and various trial horses including Teresa Monash Lady Gladatone Fyling Godfrey M Brown Bread for trials. May Handicap options include Rivoll Git Speeder Welter Simpson Tooloomba and Novice prospects Happy Moments Earl Joy.
A large turnout gathered as cars departed this morning for the Mackinlay races to be run today and tomorrow. Many residents from Cloncurry will drive in tomorrow for the final day’s races and the evening ball.
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