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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 18, 1943
Page
2
D L McDonald of Honours P 3 M C London and Jack and McDonald Sydney Optometrists will visit Gloucester on Saturday in June. Public consultation at the Commercial Hotel from morning until 5 p.m. with hours of visit posted.
At the War Chest meeting on Tri day night Totter Was received from AGW. A.B. Bleasdale of the WAAAS thanks the Committee for their gift of £2 10. Miss Bleasdale recently home on Trays unable to send the Taye well Boclal. Fayewall reported at the Returned Soldiers Social naming Gunner JR McQueel of Barrington as a recipient of a War Chest gift. Miss Winsome Hose at the Bant of New South Wales staff volunteered for AWAS service. Sister Evelyn Lawrie, Royal Naval Hospital Nurse from Lismore, has earned the Royal Red Cross for patience and devotion to duty while serving aboard a hospital ship in the North Sea. Mr. Punton from Cascade School near Dorriga to succeed Mr. H. S. Hamfertey in charge of Lansdowne School at Banning River. Mr. Hatherley to lead Hunter's Hill Public School after ten years at Lansdowne.
Gloucester reports at Friday night War Chest meeting allocate £29 to St George's Fund for Sailors £250 to Australian Comforts Fund and £10 from Mr Brooke for Comforts Fund. Tea and sugar ration changes announced with coupons dates. carnival fat bullock won by Jack Kilis then sold to Hilton McCarthy for £14. tickets total £75. Tribute paid to founders of Far West Work Stanley Drummond mirroring large regional conference. Papua atrocities: renegade natives arrested and tried for murdering Allied forces and handing Europeans to Japanese after Buna and Gona battles.
The Majestic screens the comic duo Wyoming and Barnacle Bill in The Bugle Bounds with Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main, plus Eyes of the Underworld as support. Next Friday and Saturday the Paramount comedy Bykiture screens. Butter subsidy delays continue with Canberra stating May 18 as new expected payment date. Stamps of recognition for Mr. B Wiseman from the St John’s Ambulance Association. Curtin signals victory in North Africa via radio, urging all arms of the war effort. New transport rule requires passengers to reserve seats at Sydney’s Central Station. Homebush stock sale reports show cattle yarded with generally steady values and mixed quality.
J Ede of Khatabundah reports a remarkable egg laid by a hen described as Fitz o Wingham crowing. The egg contained gumlike sap and a wormlike center, unusual for a chicken egg. The hen likely fed on gum for some time, and observers speculate this gum-diet may have influenced the egg’s unusual contents.
The Gloucester Shire Council reports receipts from a Lakings fundraiser split between the Red Cross Prisoner of War Fund and Gloucester War Chest Fund totaling £743. Minutes cover donations, calls for cooperation on private firewood access, lighting upgrades, road repairs, and water and drainage concerns, plus routine council business and member notices.
The Australian Comforts Fund launched its Adoption Appeal in Sydney at Town Hall on May 17 to raise £850,000 yearly for comforts and services for forces personnel. Volunteers were recruited, and subscribers will buy 1 or 6d Adoption Stamps weekly to build a card worth £2 12s 0d, yielding a Certificate of Adoption signed by NSW ACE President, Sydney Lord Mayor, and local branch chair.
The Macleay Argus notes a four day effort by Ure municipal outdoor staff under Overseer Kennedy to treat footpaths on both sides of Rudder Street with tar and chivvers top dressing. Workers cleared grain growth from broken areas, refilled holes, and levelled surfaces for residents.
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