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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 21, 1952
Page
2
Mr J Bell MLO will visit Gloucester at the Commercial Hotel from 0 a.m. to 6 p.m. for eye consultations. Appointments may be made through Street & Parish Pty Ltd by phone 6 Gloucester. The service is offered by Webster Jack and McDonald Pty Limited Optometrists and Opticians with locations in Sydney Tamworth Kempsey Taree.
Priday March 21 1952 Gloucester Old Boys' Cricket Club to Dungar Thursday for A Laurie silver cup match. Care leaves town at pm. Golf gossip lists Gloucester Golf Club weekend program including 18 holes Saturday and a cup round Sunday. Methodist services Sunday at Gloucester 11 am and 7 30 pm. Tax relief on losses farmers may spread insurance recoveries over five years under cabinet decision, current financial year affected.
Thomas Burleigh of Candle had a remarkable escape when his heavily laden lorry turned over after losing control near Stroud. He suffered minor injuries and a stoking, was discharged from hospital, and told ambulance officers that a wheel strike caused the steering to wrench free before the vehicle plunged down a roadside embankment. Stroud ambulance took him to a private hospital in Gloucester.
A horsedrawn milk cart owned by Mesare Selman and Seamark was damaged early this morning when a timber lorry spooked the horse on Queen Street Queen Street Hl. The cart’s axle snapped inside the wheel hub and the horse bolted along Barrington Street until stopped by a fence post on the west side.
A Gloucester Pastures Protection Board member urged transferring bushfire control to local forestry officers. He cited a case where a resident asked to start a fire outside the district under regulations, waited five days for approval, while a strong wind rose, making the act dangerous. The proposal is set for debate at the May P P Board conference in Sydney.
The secretary of the Gloucester RSL sub-branch, Mr J Woodward, says Rev P B Lucock will be guest speaker at the Anzac Day Memorial Service in Memorial Park. Lucock is one of two Country Party nominees for the Lynn Beat by election tomorrow.
The secretary Mr A Turner notes Gloucester Butter Factory produced 73 tons less than the prior February. Milk treated totals were 49 tons last year versus 20 tons this past February, with butter prices 3 6 and 3 8 per pound. Total distribution stood at £6921 16 3, supplier payments £1819 81 10, and combined income for the district £2849 0 18.
The Postmaster General told a Gloucester questioner that shortages in mail and materials limit new construction. He said the department will focus on expanding telephonic and telegraphic services to outlying districts before building expensive offices. A land block in Denison Street was reserved years ago for a future post office, but no progress has occurred.
Congratulations extend to Mr and Mrs George Stevenson on the birth of a daughter at Roma Private Hospital on March 19. Selda Kingsbury leaves Gloucester to work as staff journalist on the Newcastle Herald after nine months on The Advocate. John Dalton joins the literary staff of the Gloucester Advocate after returning from England. The District Land Court sat in Gloucester this week to adjudicate 47 cases, chaired by Mr D K Bowler with assistants A J Laurie and H Higgins.
The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture Mr Me Ewen announced seeking markets beyond the United Kingdom to raise pig meat profits. Liberal leader Mr W H Anderson warns that keeping Britain as the sole buyer risks lower food production and Britain’s own welfare. Also notes 364 New South Wales refrigerator cars used by NE Railway for perishables, with 180 meat cars weekly and 0 butter cars, plus 11 top bunker cores. American Air Transport Assoc reports U S air transport as a billion dollar industry with 1 043 324 812 dollars in total operating revenues last year.
The Miss Gloucester quest for the RAL Building Fund will close with a dance at the Majestic Theatre on Tuesday April 1. Donations and votes will be accepted until 10 p.m. when the winner, named Ming Gloucester, is announced. An apron competition and a Gangat Hall dance for Miss Eastern are advertised as fundraisers.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics released the first Pig Crop Report for Australia, based on farmers across major pig producing districts. It notes continued upward pig numbers from 1,123,000 in March 1950, with some states seeing declines, and covers June 1 to December 1, 1951 data plus forecasts through June 1952.
Homebush stock sales report 343 cattle yarded on Thursday with prices eased. Best vealers to 16 pounds, heifers to 195, cows to 120 per 100 pounds. Production of logs for sawmills in six months to December 1851 rose by one third, totaling 428,211,000 super feet, as Minister Weir notes hope to exceed 520,000,000 in 1950/51. A new hydraulic tipping trailer from Ferguson showcases rapid lifting and easy coupling. Rabbit farming grows in South Africa with urban backyards expanding and a Pretoria butcher shifting to rabbit meat amid rising demand.
A political notice praising Ludoch as a young man of strong character with high education and extensive church ministry. It outlines pledges to improve rural roads and telephone service, support rural industries, boost food production, defend national interests, reopen rivers and ports, and devote time to electorate matters. Authorized by W J Machin and J E Abbott.
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