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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 10, 1939
Page
3
Commercial listing reports 4118 to 4119 cattle yarding with market clear trends. Prices vary by class from best bullocks to cows and calves, with Homebush and Maitland results showing weaker to steady movements and brisk pig and calf demand, including highs for heavy calves and baconers.
The Chief Prickly Peer War ren Mr W Purcell reported Queensland Lands minister on lantana destruction in Bri pane district using arsenic pentoxide solutions at two strengths 2 quarts per gallon and 1 pint per gallon sprayed by a power plant with a nozzle on a GOF hose. Results showed near total kill but cost concerns led to nozzle improvements cutting poison use to one third. North district tests with Zibs to the gallon yielded 100 percent kill except one case. Recommendations varied by density including light top spraying followed by burning and regrowth spraying with 21/2 pints per gallon, plus knapsack or atomiser for scattered stands.
The engagement is announced of Heather second daughter of Mr and Mrs J E G Cumming of Gloucester to James youngest son of Mr and Mrs W K Davidson of Pelaw Main. In Cleveland police decide on the spot traffic enforcement with roadside courts. Japan plans converting over 500 cars to charcoal fuel with Prince Chichibu leading the effort.
High class repairs to all makes of radio sets by senior mechanic. Service department with latest testing apparatus. Bennetts Radio and Garage Service Gloucester. Phone 81.
Foley Bros. Pty. Ltd and its secretary were fined at the Central Summons Court for failing to provide a shareholder with a copy of the year end balance sheet as required by the Companies Act. Norman Red Foley testified he offered to pay costs. secretary John Maher claimed orders from the chairman blocked the copy. The court imposed £1 fine on the company with costs and 5 shillings to Maher plus costs.
Mr L J Howell medical missionary of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Papua reports a dramatic rescue in the Purari River. An eight year old girl was seized by a crocodile and pulled to the river bed before her grandfather saved her by diving with a paddle. The child suffered extensive injuries but was slowly recovering after a week. Locals say about 80 people have been taken by crocodiles in the past 13 years.
Bruce Grover, a young English engineer, flew from Stockholm to Russia to rescue his Russian wife after a visa refusal. Welcomed in London with his brunette wife in a grey fur lined coat, Grover learned the Soviet would allow her to travel to England within three months. The voyage cost about £300, but he called his wife worth it and said his job remains open with no complaints about treatment.
A listing of church services for multiple denominations including Church of England, Nabiac Free Presbyterian, Congregational, and Baptist groups. Times span morning and evening sessions with locations such as Gloucester, Nabiac, Wang Wauk, Forster, Stroud, and Craven Plateau. Ministries led by Rev. H W Rogers, Rev. R W Hanington, Rev. N J C Southwell, and Pastor B Martens among others.
A sound detector used in England for oil exploration employs aluminium wire of extraordinary thinness. The diameter is one ten-thousandth of an inch, with 600 strands equal to a human hair. A sample was displayed under a high powered microscope at the Glasgow Empire Exhibition Canadian Pavilion.
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