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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 22, 1946
Page
2
An OCR fragment notes Metronald F.B.C.4. Fonours FBLC presenting an optometrist and optician matter involving Jack & McDonald Sydney Pty Limited. Dates to be advertised with a potential meeting at the Commercial Hotel.
Arrangements for Australia Day at Gloucester Post Office include limited services and no money orders or bank business. The town also features cinema listings and local notices about council planning, stray animal incidents, and public events scheduled around January 20th and 25th in nearby communities.
Personal notices from Porverdale to Barrington celebrate engagements and births while listing servicemen and women. The column unmasks wedding plans, twin daughters, hospital stays, pre discharge leaves, and messages of sympathy, with names like Portella, Harts, Laurie, Knox, Shepherd, and McNaughton. Also mentions returning soldiers, training schemes, and possible local association branches.
A Gloucester church event celebrated servicemen including Jack Mills and Ted Pike with welcome remarks by President Tom Hicks and Mrs. Arrawanki. The program featured a piano solo and a charity drive supporting troops, with attendance noted as the Gloucester Public Hall hosted the gathering.
Local race meeting features a range of maiden and handicap events with listed runners such as Medieval King 87 Portray 80 and Flying Handicap entries like Des yor 94 Finsinit 83. Notable weights include Paper Doll 82 Resign 0 and Paper Toll 89 with Ste p Quick 8 and Redacted rivals.
The Hartington Hull End Sports Committee acknowledges generous support from local groups for the boxing event and pays homage to loved ones. Read memory notes for Auling Trepey and Lila Rose D’Arcy with dates and messages from family.
The new timetable for the Kempsey Mail began Monday January 7. Gloucester Railway Station changes introduce additional trains to Sydney and revised arrivals and departures. Day trains to Sydney run Friday and Wednesday with Gloucester arrivals, while night trains operate on Monday Wednesday Friday and Saturday. A Sunday night Sydney service arrives Gloucester early morning. The North Coast Mail will stop at Gloucester on Monday Wednesday and Saturday, with arrivals from Sydney around 2.80 am and departures later.
A fragmentary notice from a local store lists individuals and places in garbled form. It references BT Smith, Maw, River Maw, Berd Croningg and Camp Street, Lantern, Re Ward, teuying, and Garner's Store, but the context is unclear.
A fragmented notice lists multiple churches in Gloucester and nearby towns with service times. May Rector Prembyturian at Rookhurat 4, Bar iHEton 2.30, Wards River 7.80, and other congregations including Methodist Gloucester, Congregational Sinkerschas, Free Presbyterian Backington, and Stroud Boptier Church with listed morning and evening services.
Advocate accounts for the quarter ending December 31 1945 are due at Deer and subscribers are requested to give them early attention. Accounts in arrears will be prosecuted by action unless a settlement is made within the stated time.
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