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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 05, 1945
Page
2
Listing of Melbourne race acceptances and trials for the day featuring the Filles 44 Furlongs Durga and several handicap and stakes events. Includes names of horses in the Melbourne Trial Stakes divisions, the Edward Manifold Stakes, and the Melbourne Stakes with assigned post times and fields.
Weather shifts with warm days and heavy gales at night. Residents depart for holidays to Brisbane Yeppoon and Adelai de while local families welcome newborns and celebrate arrivals. The Younger Set hosts a dance. ambulance services and hospital activity rise after Cloncurry Hospital closure. A betting event hints at local entertainment with tickets available at Peter Dawes shop.
Sydney Acceptances list for Canonbury, Chestin, Craven Plate, Clibborn Stakes and other races with weights and entries. Local notes report Mr T Robertson and Mr W King visiting Torrens Creek, a boxing event planned on October 13, a boxing gym update, and a funeral at Garomna Station for Pierce Blaney of the 4th Gun Battalion with a military funeral and pallbearers.
Classified note offers a boy a position in an advocate office to learn the trade and gain office experience. A health advisory promotes flu prevention with a wartime style slogan and a medicinal product named Woods Great Peppermint Cure mentioned in passing.
The page lists racing events with maiden and open races from 1.90 pm to 4.45 pm including Fourth Maiden Race and Buckingham Handicaps. It notes nominations and acceptance rules, weight penalties, and required club membership. A social ball and supper follow the day’s races.
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