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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 14, 1934
Page
3
Reports tell of bushmen poisoning arrows during arrests for stealing care. A captured bushman supplied an antidote that saved a wounded horse. A Gobabis magistrate previously died after an arrow wound without an antidote. Also noted are elections in Odanovats and insomnia pyjamas in Poland.
T. A. Corbett of Gloucester named local agent for Os mond & Sons Blackleg Aggression in solid and liquid forms and other cattle and horse remedies and licks. Stocks kept.
Melbourne reports the 58th annual meeting of the T and G Life Assurance Society. New business reached 167 018 policies valued at 12 816 814 pounds, with an increase of 1 303 862 pounds over last year. The Accident Department issued 12 241 policies for 3 588 164 pounds. 9 986 ordinary policies retained accident benefits. The total income was 4 172 734 pounds and policyholder payments 1 440 654 pounds. Assets stood at 21 082 496 pounds, about 63 percent in government and local loan securities. The society wrote off 50 000 pounds of office premises and 50 000 pounds to contingency funds. Lien Revival System privileges, Nursing Service, and Free Periodical Medical Examinations were continued. The actuarial report shows a surplus of 720 071 pounds with reversionary bonuses maintained. The chairman praised general condition improvements and the board's appreciation of staff loyalty.
Endesvours will field B Grade and A Grade teams tomorrow with E V Fitzgerald A Ruinich A Bolton J Norton V West E Anderson J Wratten N McInnes W Connelly R B Laurie A W Mowle in B Grade 1 J Atkins F Connelly G Conn J Wellard J Wratten S West F Small KD Boorer B Jones B Andrews S Fornham 1) Young 12 F Oldfield 1134)
Francis Henry Goodchild, 96, described as tall with a long grey beard, told Marylebone Magistrates he has not drunk alcohol for eight years and lives in Leamington, Warwickshire, though staying in West Kilburn. He was fined 25 shillings and sixpence or one day in a workhouse for drunkenness after explaining his military past.
Clean troughs prevent gastrointestinal issues in young pigs. Iron troughs resist soiling best. concrete troughs must be well finished to avoid milk souring. timber troughs can work if properly joined tarred and sloped. Prevent overturning and avoid pigs standing in troughs to curb parasite spread.
Frederick George Skinner aged 25 and Lucy May Skinner 28 were electrocuted when they touched a live 11 000 volt line on their father's Townsend farm near Maclean. Younger siblings Harold John 17 and Daphne 13 were shocked but survived after Harold freed them with a stick.
Sunny South boxed set includes 12 cards with envelopes, described as a 1 3 box containing a complete card pack. The listing notes the product name Great Seat and Sunny South, with packaging details and quantity.
In Berlin Zoological Gardens a flamingo laid an egg, claimed as the first of its kind. The brief note adds various global facts on British industry, public health, forests, prisons, and other curiosities, ending with a local advertisement for H. Coote the Practical Jeweller in Gloucester.
Mrs Norman Richards of Woodford Blue Mountains reports her five year old daughter Stephanie trapped a marauding brown hawk that had been attacking poultry. The child chased it into the yard dodged thrashing roosters and held the bird down with a rag while her sister fetched help. The hawk was bagged and placed in a box with water.
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