07 May 1937
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 07, 1937
Page
1
Just arrived a wonderful range of new evening frocks in popular shades and latest smart styles. Available in sizes SSW SW W and OS with fitting. A new frock at a keen price to suit all. New evening coats in black green red white pink and flame direct from leading designers. Call and inspect this range.
A vivid tour of the Gravesend Reach harbor area describes the busy river life. Pilots guide tonnage through the Thames tide channels while ships from many lands unload and load goods from pulp to tea. The piece notes Tilbury Docks, liner traffic, and the romantic river culture ongoing despite modern steamships and global trade.
In Nabiac a large meeting opposed granting the Tarree Municipal Council a proposed electricity reticulation franchise. Residents demanded details on supply terms and suggested a rural company could distribute power. A deputation to Local Government Minister Spooner was arranged via Mr Bennett to press for government inquiry.
In the Pacific, Near Nauru and Ocean Island, solid phosphate rock, not fossilised wood, was identified by Mr. Ellis during testing. Discoveries hint at deposits similar to Nauru, prompting negotiations with the British Colonial Office and Germany, with ore shipped yearly to Australia and New Zealand for fertilizer use.
A list of attendees including F Martin Burrell Creek B G Bradley Krambach L C Parker Dyer's Crossing FP Montague Karkatt John Sambell Bunyab M Holstein Bucca Wawlea WJ Mann Tipperary Percy Deards Wallanbah Weller Nabiac J W Breckenridge Fairford E Wright Toncurry W Cileher Fosters Jack Worth Vi Wong Wank Fred Parker Gan Wat Jack Martin Be Bo. The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman.
A Daily Mail Tours correspondent reports the Duke of Windsor then Prince of Wales kissed four French girls on the Somme battlefield. Dr Charles Mercier of Monts confirms being asked to visit the Chateau de Cande to discuss wedding plans likely to proceed quickly once authorities permit.
The Minister for Agriculture, on the Dairy Products Board's advice, fixed quotas of 66 percent for butter and 7 percent for cheese to govern trade within New South Wales. These quotas stay until revised. Previous levels were 49 percent for butter and 69 percent for cheese.
A factory where fire-lighters were well manufactured burned to the ground. It deals a terrible blow to the proprietor though the advertisement benefits from the disaster.
An OCR fragment lists horse rugs and canvas gear with specifications such as felt lining, cross web surcingles, leg straps, and various sizes. It includes items described as UTE CANVAS, JUTE CANVAS, PROOFED DUCK and PROOFED GREEN DUCK with color and fitting notes, and price-like figures, reflecting a mid-1930s supplier catalog excerpt.
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