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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 12, 1942
Page
3
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Local notices describe Red Cross Sunday events at Presbyterian Church and Church of England Ascension Day Lantern Lecture. Highlights include V A Detachment parade, wedding reception notes, Church Army work, and fundraising efforts. Methodist, Baptist services noted with Red Cross observances and sermon topics.
Chinese forces launch counterattacks in Man- Clay area and threaten Mandalay while British troops retreat toward Kalewa on the Chindwin. Maymyo and Cheteng reportedly fallen. Chittagong bombed by Japanese aircraft. US pilots hit a Japanese column on the Salween. Martinique talks between US and France underway. Russians brace for possible German counteroffensive. Allied patrols damage or sink two enemy submarines as Japanese subs near Australia.
B HOOKE of Skibo Gloucester writes to the editor in May 1942 urging the Council to isolate khaki weed by the old church and sale yards. He cites Mr P Hagen guiding him to the site and calls for inspection by landowners, followed by careful destruction and long term monitoring.
Winchcombe Carson Ltd records 22978 cattle yarded as market eases for vealers to 58 shillings per hundredweight? steers to 48 shillings, heifers 44, bullocks 43, cows 38. Hides calfskins yearlings steady. rabbit skins cheaper. Incomings and autumns declined. rack prices fluctuated with no quotable change. Hare skins 4 to 14 shillings per dozen.
The text argues that conversion is the Holy Spirit's work and not Christ's. it acknowledges spiritual indwelling but asserts Christ’s second coming will be outward, visible, and personal, like the first.
Tom Hicks by instruction of Mr. D Shelton sells the well known dairy herd at auction. The herd includes 30 Jersey cows in milk 10 springers 15 young cattle 2 extra good farm horses and farming plant. Immediately after the sale Estate W J Grant at Ward's River offers plant and sundries including ploughs harrows carts harness yokes and other tools. Cash terms. Gloucester auctioneer Tom Hicks.
A sale will have a buyer in attendance on Tuesday 26 May for sound saddle horses 15 hands and over up to five years old, broken and in good condition, and light spring cart horses up to 15 hands whether broken or unbroken. Grey cream piebald colors are excluded. Owners should inform agents of horses offered.
Impounded at Gloucester from Avon Valley Road on 5 May. One black mare branded N under two dots on off shoulder, one ray gelding branded R.E., one brown mare with no visible brand. If not released, will be sold at the Gloucester Pound at Noon on 2 May. F Gid dey Poundkeeper.
The Government Gazettes of April May 1942 reveal an application by Allen Taylor and Co. Ltd. for Special Lease No 42/5 at Myall Lake Gloucester fronting Lease 42.3 with objections due at East Maitland Land Board Office. Also Water Act license application by Walter Albert Adams for a 10 acre irrigation pump on a Gloucester River anabranch. provide objections by June 5 1942 to H Bevan Secretary W C I C G P O Sydney.
For sale two young registered Jersey bulls fit for spring work. From tested dams. Reasonable prices. Apply J. J. Atkins Forbesdale Gloucester.
In sacred memory of our darling son Oscar James Jimmies who joined the angels May 13 1939. Sweet rosebud in bloom memory recalls your dear face. To have and to hold and then to part is the saddest blow to a parent. Missed by father mother and sisters.
Church listings for Sunday 17 May to midweek include Church of England services at Ascension Dar Gloucester and Gloucester locations, Presbyterian at Bowman Farm and Gloucester, Methodist Red Cross services in Gloucester and Bucca Wanka, Free Presbyterian at Low er Barrington, School of Arts events, Congregational in Craven Creek and Copeland, Stroud District Baptist at Sterred Allworth Ecora Tinion Hall, and notes Rev. J A Webster, Rev. H Lynn, Rev. D. Clvn Jones, Rev. B. Martens, and Pastor BE A Walsham among others.
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