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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 30, 1942
Page
2
Optometrist D. McDonald of Webster Jack and McDonald Sydney will visit Gloucester on Saturday August 8 and may be consulted at the Commercial Hotel from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. He holds F.B.C.A. Honours and F.5.M.C. (London).
Early Friday night a horse was fatally injured when hit by a motor vehicle about a mile from town on Barrington Road. Drs Wilson and Breese attended with Mr Smiley Hoy, who had been inspecting Shire roads, found the animal in the roadway between seven and eight o'clock, police were notified, and the horse was shot to end its suffering.
A large Gloucester gathering at the Majestic welcomed home Alan Taylor from Port Moresby after six months overseas service. Loftus Fitzgerald was farewelled. Guests received tokens from the War Chest Fund and Ladies Auxiliary, with thanks given to the Returned Soldiers Social Committee and Red Cross for support. Dancing and supper followed despite influenza causing some absences.
Readers are reminded of a dance at Kia Ora on Thursday 2 July to aid the Gloucester War Chest Funds. A cake stall will be in Church Street on Saturday where patrons may buy weekend cakes. the stall is run by the ladies of the Methodist Church.
Arthur Everett Boyd Freeman aged 62 died en route to Gloucester after health decline. He had lived at Gloucester River twelve years on Bowen Bros. Stratford property, leaving a widow and nine children. Funeral and Stratford Cemetery burial were held with Rev. D Glyn Jones officiating.
A Gloucester reader sent a photo of Australian prisoners in Stalag XVII Germany. Ronnie Watson and Joe Latham are among about thirty two. Letters from home speak of good care under a kind commandant, cold sheds with fires all day, and parcels arriving for many inmates.
The V D C mounted units expand in the district with a Gangat unit of forty members supplying their own horses and adopting modern warfare gear. Mr FE Weekes and Advocate representative joined D C Les Farley to assess the progress, praising flanking drills and mobility for coastal defense. A Bowman Farm unit of 26 members trains every alternate Sunday under Farley, drawing members from Newcastle weekendly.
The obituary notice clarifies that Andrew Hill and a family should be read instead of Andrew Hill and family and adds new wreaths for Mr and Mrs A J Woodward and family, Mr and Mrs F Lowe and family, and S A Radford Barrington.
At Gangat on June 20 a successful day of horse events raised £93 10s 7d for the Gangat Red Cross and Gloucester War Chest Fund. A large crowd watched nearly a hundred horses race, with notable performances by Leo Dodd, Glen Easton, and others. Ross Knox sustained a fractured arm in a fall. The Luncheon booth supported by the Red Cross fed spectators well. committee members and helpers expressed gratitude as net proceeds reached £03 10s 17d after expenses.
A horse owned by Pat Mc Keogh and another horse owned by Geol. Taylor ran into a barbed wire fence the night before the Gangat sports. Both animals sustained cuts with Mc Keogh’s near the knee and Taylor’s across the chest and below the shoulder. Doctors expect no permanent injury.
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