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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 17, 1934
Page
1
Garers advertise a broad sale on winter fabrics and clothing items. Newt patterns in tweeds and woolen textiles offered at special yard prices, plus sale rates on flannelette, pyjama flannels, ladies flannel frocks, men’s tweed trousers, boots, and all wool flannels, with clearance and bargain pricing across items.
Gloucester Shire Council met Friday with Councillors Higgins Reichert Moore Laurie and Dennett present. Budget notes show payments across funds, arrears enforcement, grandstand tendering, and an $800 loan repayment. Discussions covered rural school plot, fumigation costs, tar paving, road repairs, fuel supply, and drainage issues while noting government grants and community thank you letters.
A Sydney detective’s undercover work among Bulolo field dredge hands led to arrests in a large scale gold theft ring shipping to Hongkong. Three men faced charges including possession of retorted gold and gold specimens, with two jailed and one committed for trial at Wau. The force notes substantial involvement by white Australians and Kanaka workers, with bribery suspected to facilitate theft.
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