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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 04, 1926
Page
3
The Pole Association conference heard railway officials refuse to control how many cattle and sheep may be loaded on stock trains. They cited varying animal size, weather, and fuel as reasons, noting inspections by the RSPCA and occasional deaths.
A new church at Knead Brooksile is under construction by a workforce of about forty workers. Directed by the pastor of Manly, the project features a tithe of twenty by forty two and offers a gleaming quantity of progress for the community.
A House of Commons member, fresh from the United States, attacks wholesale evasion of Prohibition and government complicity. He cites smugglers in Scotland, New Orleans, London, and New York, noting bribery risks and the costly, misused machinery of government amid policy clashes and public distrust. The piece also notes a local council in Goohong Parkes failing in a road-making plant purchase.
A Bechuanaland tragedy recounts Sekgoma of the Bamangwato faith in witchcraft and medical error as he nears death. Witch doctors inflame fear with rites, while Desmond Drew the white physician loses influence. King Khama’s missionary era and its church-building progress are contrasted with tribal strife and Sekgoma’s failed deposement and exile, ending in renewed internal strife after Khama’s death.
A discussion notes that newspaper advertising outperforms circulars and pamphlets in Australia and Los Angeles. It cites a study by the Women’s Advertising Club of Los Angeles analyzing one thousand replies on attitudes to advertising forms. Findings show newspapers most influential, despite concerns about truthfulness, with interest in replicating the survey in other districts.
A resident found a deceased man named David Lynch amid scrub in Wallamba district between 0 and 40 years old. Lynch had died by self harm at Bunyah after asking for directions to a doctor in Nahin the previous April. Constable Turnbull shot Lynch's kangaroo dog at the scene before accessing the body, which showed the head blown off and signs the shooting occurred four to five days earlier. The case unsettles locals, with Lynch's parents known residents of Wal town and district.
In a jumble of brief items, Britain reports on civil service retirement patterns, unemployment, weather ranges, and economic indicators. It notes small London family dynamics, warrants low dole reliance, and surveys public works spending, shipping fruit cargoes, and railway station renovations.
We publish guidance from Wells to Webster, Jack and McDonald Opticians of Hilts and Martin Pico, Sydney, urging readers with defective sight to seek advice. The shop specializes in repair work and promises to announce the date of their next visit in this newspaper.
A date based notice warns that all trespassers on Glorivale and Rawin Vale properties will be prosecuted. Signed by W. J. Stanton, W. G. Ridgeway, T. J. Arroy, and J. N. Laurie, with Feb 1926 dates, cancelling permissions and stating future enforcement. Includes references to Mograni Mich, Baker's Creek, and Rawin Vale property.
In Patan money is scarce and farmers cannot pay taxes. The Dot has passed a law letting them settle duties in cord, poto, toes, or beet, all produced in large quantities in Poland. The measure aims to ease financial strain by accepting barter against official dues.
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