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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 04, 1934
Page
3
A British postal course prompts a rival group to joke the lion will acknowledge a graduate. Other items note drivers improve after second year, a Copenhagen menu with 157 sandwiches, and a Santa Rosa church carved from a single redwood tree yielding 78,000 feet of timber.
Victor Cleave of Falkenstone describes waking from a four year sleep after Royal Engineers service injury and pension hospital care. He recalls recognizing his family after years apart, saw a changed town with new houses and traffic, and hopes to return to work as he continues recovery with extended hospital leave.
Gordon Beckles details Cunard liner Queen Mary staffing from captains to stewardesses. He notes a large hospitality and service cadre with 80 stewardesses, seven wireless operators, and 300 plus stokers and engineers. The chief steward oversees florists, librarians, houselhold staff, cooks and musicians aboard the vast ship.
Fight specimens of blue sheep, among the rarest larger mammals, have been obtained by the Smithsonian Institution. They inhabit the high mountains of Szechwan Province, China, living on crags at elevations of 10,000 feet or more.
Eminent radiologists at University College Hospital report a new bombing treatment using a radium device the size of a cricket ball. One grain of radium worth £17,000 is housed in a steel shell with a wooden plug to direct Gamma rays at diseased tissue while sparing healthy tissue. Hundreds of patients have felt relief from chronic pain.
Postage-stamp collectors issued over 1700 new varieties this year, 542 European. Mail coaches began 190 years ago, traveling eight and a half miles per hour, with London daily departures since 1830. A Berkshire youth reports to his father monthly, a police superintendent. Britain’s industries employ nearly 2,000,000 women in clothing, textiles, and pottery. Britain exports the world’s fastest fighting aeroplanes to many nations. A Chicago flying fire brigade aims to drop chemicals to slow fires quickly. Summer Britain money circulation rises to about £5,000,000 above usual £370,000,000. Jim the London Zoo chimpanzee performs a fascist salute, drawing visitors’ delight. America has towns named after English places, including 13 Bristols, 15 Oxfords, nine Plymout hs, seven Yorks, seven Baths, and six Cambridges.
Dr. Mortimer Wheeler, director of Maiden Castle excavations near Lorchester, reports a ring of ship pits forming a bargain basement. The butcher’s shop shows prime beef pork mutton and kid. the armourer’s dept stocks over 2000 stings. the merchant’s warehouse holds chalk weights. A Great spring Sale is noted but not found.
Very best quality ox beef sold by the hundred pounds at one pound five shillings. Cash with order. All orders promptly attended to. J. A. Nichols at 942 High Street West Maitland. Phone 856 or 404.
Packaging describes a set titled Creat Seat consisting of six sheets with envelopes and a 1/3 box. An additional Sunny South boxed bundle includes twelve cards with envelopes.
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