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Newspaper

Gloucester Advocate

Location

Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia

Date

Mar 18, 1938

Page

3

Barton’s Follies Opens in Gloucester True to Style

Barton’s Follies opens Friday March 25 in a large canvas theatre on Church Street Gloucester. Led by Tibby Roberts the show features 30 singing and dancing stars seven new specialty acts the Follies ballet and an orchestra under Charles Sleet with brilliant lighting and scenery. Complete new show each night with comfortable seating and glamorous costumes. Box plan open daily.

Canvas Church Street Gloucester Barton's Follies Metropolis Tibby Roberts Prince of Comedy Follies Ballet of Beautiful Girls Follies Orchestra Charles Sleet Canvas Theatre

Fragments Hint At Marriage Plot Adjustments

Partial OCR reads like a confused remark about allowing someone to marry an agent. The garbled line suggests relation or consent issues but provides no clear names, places, dates, or outcomes. The item shows a stray social note or clipped dialogue rather than a full news item.

Railway Excursions In April Announced By Railways

The Department of Railways outlines extensive April excursion travel with multiple daily services to Sydney and from Sydney, offering return tickets at single fare. Holiday excursion fares apply to principal stations in other mainland states from April 4 to 23. NSW tickets offer return validity with break allowances on return trips, excluding Metropolitan and Newcastle Suburban stations. Handbills with schedules and privileges are at railway stations for readers to study.

Department of Railways Sydney New South Wales Minland Newcastle

Branding Large Stock and Prescribed Brand Positions

The Minister for Agriculture outlined required branding positions for stockowners after a union resolution. Horses use five positions left shoulder to right neck, cattle six positions left rump to right thigh, with brand height 1 to 3 inches. Penalties up to 10 pounds, imprisonment up to a year, or 100 pounds fine apply for noncompliance or unregistered brands. Distinctive brands have limited use and specific position rules, with exceptions for Australian Stud Book cattle and stud book societies.

Primary Producers Union Mr. Main

Homebush Stock Sales Report from Sydney

Winchcombe Carson Ltd reports 3814 cattle yarded at Homebush stock sale in Sydney. Most prime cattle unaltered, others 5d lower. Best dealers 43s per cwt, steers and heifers 36s, bullocks to 34s, cows to 28s per 100 pounds.

Homebush Sydney Winchcombe, Carson Ltd EADIE Porkera

Commercial Cattle Sale Sets Yearly Record Prices

Tom Hicks reports a record cattle sale with heavy yarding and strong demand across fat cattle and store stock. Prices ranged high for Shorthorn bullocks, Herefords, and Devon steers, with numerous consignors and buyers fueling brisk competition and wide earnings across hundreds of head.

Tom Hicks Devon H. G. Saxby Laurie Estas T. Bird G. R. Hicks Hicks Green B.C Laurie W. Lynch W. Easton H. Borham T. A. Laurie Bert Laurie K. Corbett C. H. Green K. Gibbs A. Whatson G. Ninness R. Morris W. A. Nash F. Brazel L. Brazel Don. Grant C. Newton Reg. Newton G Grace N. Webster L. Mile H. Nairn B. M. McPhee A. McTones B. Dillon J. A. Ross G. L. Monro A. G. Hicks A. Bridge J. D. Livingstone W. J. Dare J. D. Parish Clark B. Pranks Livermore J. A. Middleton W. J. Newton Leo, Carter Morissey Ltd W. Smith D. J. West L. C. ‘Attwater H. J. Johnston Sun

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