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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 20, 1940
Page
4
Shorthorn Dawson, cattle king, faces pressure from his ambitious sister Agatha while his son Stacy resists an arranged match with the refined Hon Bertha. In Dawson Towers, the patriarch reflects on wealth, library treasures, and a past spent guiding his son’s future amid social expectations and family control.
Stacy confronts his father and Aunt Agatha Dawson about an arranged match. He rejects Bertha Holdall as a gold digger and proposes a radical life change, including working as a boundary rider, to win true love and escape the family fortune trap. The scene mixes memory, wealth, and a stubborn insistence on personal choice.
A 1935 health department overview explains how diseases spread and how to prevent them. It covers immunisation, vector control like mosquitoes and flies, pasteurisation, limiting contacts, and the role of carriers. It emphasizes local authority responsibility, inspector oversight, and prompt case notification.
Nine station bred short horn steers from the Pagan property topped Flemington market last week. The two year nine month cattle weighed 980 to 1000 pounds and sold around 16 to 17 pounds per hundredweight. Mr Fagan notes persistent fertilization and improved pastures at Sunny Ridge as key to quality cattle.
Commercial Wingham stock sale reports strong attendance and varied catches with prime cattle at last August rates, prices for cows and vealers listed. Notable buyers include Hill Bees Bungay and P J Gillogly, with others like Fy Woollard Nuduke and G Movherson contributing to a robust yarding of fat cattle and bullocks.
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