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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 12, 1934
Page
2
Reports indicate Musikrats destroyed in England cost £1 per person, while in Scotland the cost stands at 4s 4d per head. The figures reflect regional variations in wartime measures and funding allocations.
A resident recounts seeing a man in feminine attire stride past Central Station Sydney on a Saturday afternoon. He wore a silk dress, high neckline, silk stockings, shoes, and a beret hat, drawing amused stares as he disappeared around a corner. Optometrists D J McDonald will attend at Commercial Hotel Friday 26 January from 8 am to 5 pm for eye testing.
Gloucester cattle sales outline two day yarding of about 2000 head with buyers Mellars Matthewson Dalgety Aire and Kywong stock Herefords Devon bullocks from New England and district. Nowendoc and Walcha sales details. Belbora school plans and delays. Brown's Creek Road funding. mining and cribbage results. death of Miss Isabel Capper. North Coast rail and dairy industry updates. relic penny from early retirement days found in Mortlake.
Triplets, believed to be the first in the Manning River district, have been born to Mr and Mrs H W George Hatton. The three new brothers join a six year old boy in the Hatton family.
At a Gloucester Band meeting Secretary M. Newton presented a financial statement for the recent hand contest. Receipts totalled 85 pounds 9 shillings 6p, with expenditures of 73 pounds 13 shillings 11p, leaving a deficit debated as band members pledged support to cover shortfalls and improve the band. The meeting praised volunteers and planned Sunday park performances with a silver coin admission.
The Government Gazette dated 22 December lists annual endowment allocations starting 1 January 1934. Manning Shire receives £4,150, Glouester Shire £1,250, Hastings Shire £3,750, Stroud Shire £2,500, Macleay Shire £3,600, with Dartigo Shire receiving the largest £5,250. Manning Shire is next at £4,750, £200 more than the previous endowment.
Centenarian Alexander McDonnell died at Candle home about 11 am Tuesday aged nearly 102. Born in Scotland, he arrived in Australia at age five, later settling on Lower Manning near Cundle. Survived by many relatives including siblings and numerous children, two sons became priests and four daughters served the church. His wife died in 1927.
A Melbourne side motor tourist coach on the Hume Highway 13 miles from Gundagat rolled three times after an axle broke. Three women were killed and five men and three women injured as the wreckage caught fire. Nearby residents extinguished the flames. Victims named include Mrs Allen 55 Footsteel Elwood Victoria and Miss Joan Croft 28 Auckland New Zealand, with Keogh 55 among the injured.
A London report by R A Heywood to the Department of Commerce highlights low meat prices driven by abundant inferior home-killed beef and rising supplies of Canadian chilled beef. Australian chilled beef exports are set to resume with three shipments to London, and recent Perth sales reached record prices for hind quarters.
Inquiry data from the Australian agent in the United States reaches Canberra as Customs learns Australia faces a 20 percent quota on orders. The report signals potential large gains for Australian wines and related beverages, with consumer emphasis on ease of purchasing a piano from Paling's. A note mentions Great Britain importing 225 million from Poland last year.
Commercial imebu sh stock sales in Sydney show improved average quality with 270 head from Queensland among consignments. Prices eased for heavy hillocks while good to prime beef and yearlings sold. bulls and calves attracted varied bids. At Maitland, over 1000 fat cattle were noted with prime light weights selling well though heavy bullocks were scarce. Sydney pig sale results mirrored softer overall rates for various classifications, with extra prime hogs reaching 420 per head and baconers and porkers showing mixed bids across weight brackets.
An old style classified lists items from a Studebaker car to Singer sewing machines with prices and offers. It also notes a Farmers Relief Act assent in the Government Gazette dated December 28, 1983 and directs correspondence to the Director, Farmers Relief Board, Box 4051W, G.P.O., Sydney.
In loving memory of our dear father who departed this life on 14 January 1933. Passing years cannot change our thoughts of you. Fond memories linger every day as remembrance keeps you near. Inserted by his loving sons and daughters and sons in law and daughters in law.
A weekly sale notice at Gloucester Golf Links lists Prime Fat Wethers and Lambs to be yarded every Thursday, orchestrated by A. J. Laurie. The notice specifies routine auction activity and the regular dealer arrangement at the golf link venue.
Gloucester Shire Yards sale next Wednesday January 17 at 11 o clock head lot includes Hereford bullocks steers heifers store cows calves mixed cattle from numerous estates led by Robinson and Duff. Yard at Cloucester with over 800 head from breeders including Finlayson Armidale and New England stations. Terms CASH.
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