Books on France under occupation reach Cloncurry readers
A parcel of works from the French National Committee in Australia arrives for the Cloncurry Advocate editor. Books from Oxford University Press and Hodder and Stoughton center on France under occupation, detailing resistance in Paris, the underground press, and the Nazi regime. The volume One Enemy Only The Invader by Paul Simon includes accounts of the Valmy paper, German brutality, the Black Market, Gestapo, and the fate of occupied Paris. Sales points are noted in the south and by direct inquiry.
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Advocate
le Delegue du Comite National Francais En
Australia
Hunter &J
Sydney
Oxford University Press
Hodder and Stoughton
London
France
Paul Simon
Simon
Paris
Gestapo
Petain
Laval
General de Geule
Thas
Adgrens Glyun
Weather Mix of Heat Dust Storms and Rain After Week
The week featured extreme changeable weather with heat, a dust storm, and then rain. Rainfall figures reported on Tuesday morning include Alcala 113, Buffalo 185, Clonagh 67, Cotswold 0, Cubbaroo 47, Cloncurry 64, Evandean 200, Fort Constantine 122, Ginburra 75, Granada 130, Gilliat 63, Julia Creek 121, Kajabb 46, Mac Kinlay 91, Mapperly 40, Mindie 30, Melinda 40, Quamby 130, and Zingarl 477.
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Alcala
Buffalo
Clonagh
Cotswold
Cubbaroo
Cloncurry
Evandean
Fort Constantine
Ginburra
Granada
Gilliat
Julia Creek
Kajabb
MacKinlay
Mapperly
Mindie
Melinda
Quamby
Zingarl
Remembering Tom Davis A Mount Isa Pioneer Dies
Friends and family thank well wishers for sympathy after the death of Tom Davis a longtime Mount Isa resident and shearer pioneer who helped many in Longreach and Hughenden. He was active during the 1891 strike and recalled the era when joining unions carried stigma.
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Bob
Geners
Tom Davis
Mount Isa
Australia
Longreach
Hughenden
Henry Langon
Passing of a North West farmer and egg producer at 81
The obituary recalls a robust early settler who refused a holiday at first then worked on a cane farm by the coast before moving to Mount Isa. He later produced eggs, kept up to a thousand fowls at times, and delivered eggs by bicycle to towns twice weekly. Friends mourn the loss of this long‑time community figure.
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God
Mount Isa
Anna Domini
Tom
Longreach
Hughenden
Mount Isa Water Authority Visitation List Notice
Mount Isa Water Authority posts the visitation list for 1943 1944 showing land values in the Mount Isa Authority Area available for inspection at its office. Also reports Alec Arthur of The Nobbies ill in Sydney, his son Mick newly commissioned in the ALP, and a November 12 novelty ball to aid the Sisters of St Joseph with various novelties.
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Alec Arthur
The
Nobbies
Sydney
Arthur
Cloncurry
Bourke Hospital
Mick
ALP
Queensland
Sisters of St. Joseph
Notice for A.W.A.S. and AAMWS interview in Huchenden
Miss Jean Hensley appointed by Captain Yardley Ares Officer Huchenden to interview applicants for A.W.A.S. and AAMWS. Clarence probate notice states JOHN LESLIE CLARENCE deceased. executor Victor Reginald Clarence applies in Towneville Supreme Court for probate. caveats possible. Wilson Ryan and Grose solicitors for Victor Reginald Clarence, Townsville.
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Jean Hensley
Yardley
Ares
Huchenden
A.W.A.S
AAMWS
Miss Hensley
John Leslie Clarence
Two Rivers
Selwyn
Queensland
Victor Reginald Clarence
Alderty
Beoufia
Supreme’ Court
Towneville
Wilson, Ryan and Grose
Benham Street
Townsville
Cloncurry Water Authority Valuation List 1943 44
Cloncurry Water Authority announces its Valuation List for 1943/1944 prepared under the Authorities Acts 1891 to 1931. The list is available for inspection at the office of the Clerk of the Cloncurry Water Authority in the Cloncurry Authority area.
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Cloncurry
Presbyterian Church October services and meetings
October schedule lists services at Cloncurry and Julia Creek with dates October 10 17 24 31 and guild meeting October 13. No locations beyond the two towns.
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Cloncurry
Julia Creek
Ladies Guild
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Cloncurry Shire
Notics
Mount Im
Water Authorities
Aw.as
Aamlws
Presbyterian Church
Commonwealth Savings Bank
Commonwealth
Leas Welling
Forest
Fisk Radiola
Fisk
Radiola
Present
Spiritus
Ear Amalgamated Wireless
Tid Australia
National Wireless Organization
Kaweomba
Badiola Distributor
Chandlers Pty., Ltd
Brisbane
Troschad of Cairn
Reckhampton
Fundeberg
Bray
Deni
Sawaal
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