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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 22, 1938
Page
1
The advertisement promotes a week long sale offering best quality wool de Chenes in popular shades at a special price of 2/11 per yard. It urges readers to secure sale bargains now during Garner's Great Sale event.
Rex Skinner, Gloucester boy turned Port Hedland Post Office official, describes a varied career on the Western Australia coast. He serves as postmaster and Customs officer, tames tides, cameras ships, and notes 22 foot tidal swings and ships arriving weekly. Summers are scorching, yet locals enjoy shipboard dances while he adapts to the climate and the desert heat.
Letter from Jatin Cox now in Queensland recalls Gloucester sixty years ago. He notes Leman as station manager, villas by the church, Laver’s boarding house, Cabarita road, and pubs once at the corner of the Gloucester Hotel. Wild horses, brumbies, and cattle numbers surge, Copeland diggings begin, and George Gorton builds a pub whose drowning owner is remembered. A minister attacked by a bull.
Aumeurist's visit by TD I McDonald of Webster Jack and McDonald Opticians will be at the Commercial Hotel Gloucester on Friday August 5. Hours are 9 am to 5 pm.
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