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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 01, 1925
Page
2
The Gloucester Advocate reports community items including top topics for discussion buy British pride, bank management changes with J Scott taking charge at Gloucester, and local notices. It lists Catholic notices, inter-district cricket selections, weather notes, a significant storm report, church and Presbyterian activities, social events and fundraisers, and a postponed basket social with community response.
Repair advice offered for eye issues and spectacles by Webster, Jack, and McDonald of Pitt Street and Martin Place Sydney. Specialise in repair work with notice to watch thin paper for next visit date.
The readable text sketches a meandering scene with travelers and locals, mentioning a boy, a ferry, a paddled Autwan, and a tense sense of suspicion about thefts. It hints at a campout, a tense crossing, and a narrator reflecting on fortune, people, and place, with scattered names and places emerging amid the garbled lines.
Weights listed for Saturday with dogs and horses including Flying Hansa Briar 8.40 Suilny HN 2 Huenies 4.0 Nora Se B10 Hine Chie 8.7 King Gookle Canary Girl 8.5 Pennygwenkte AOaty Way 0 First Xu fee Misy Annie 9.5 Wooler 42 Flyin Pish Sandy 8.6 Sie Nelilien Bad Shy Misile 8.0 Sie Mind 742 bord Mun 742 fly daly 742 Muntor Gyrus TAZ Nipper Taz U.K.inion tiek Wie 9.40 Frevinne Hermes 818 Canney titel fat Seorml Neosho Med Chi 9.7 Geekly 5 Misa Annie 9.2 My Way 7 Sandy 8.9 Flying Pish 8.3 SF Achilles 8.9 Sie Mead TAR Vinal Hunitienti Hark Wing 94% Revinwe 2.10 Sunny BAY KD Meron 9.0 Nora S. 10 Gonaryfl 8.5 L Wontor 8.0 Flying Fish 8.0 My Boy 8.1
James P. Shedden argues for funding new district roads ahead of main roads to spur Gloucester’s development. He favors a joint effort to raise funds, with a sinking fund for repayment, and urges action to improve Gloucester town and surrounding districts. He criticizes opponents, questions public acts, and defends his record while urging electors to consider financial plans and progress.
Large yarding of walle and prime cattle described with prices across weight classes. Bullock weights and prime cows led, with rates from 14/18 to 44/10 for heavy weights, and lighter stock fetching 5 to 6 per head. Pigs numbered about 500, with porkers and bacon pigs in demand and prices improving alongside stores and slips.
The report lists roduce market items in Sydney with prices for butter eggs cheese honey lucerne hay potatoes and onions and notes a Prohibition meeting postponed due to Mr Albert Lane MCLA. A meeting of Worcester soldiers is scheduled in the secretary's office Thursday night with 7 40 p.m. as the time to discuss a aid project for a member disabled by war service.
A garbled speech fragment shows a speaker declaring a candidacy for an aid position. The incomplete text hints at addressing each voter and promising straight and honest governance, but lacks clear details on office, dates, or affiliations.
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