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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 03, 1936
Page
3
A rustic verse describing how country storekeepers extend credit through droughts and lean times while bankers push for sales. It contrasts bank finance with a storekeeper's patient faith, noting wool and stock losses, eventual repayment, and the store as the final, satisfying payment.
A Sydney club lunch features Johnny Gonsalves recounting Judge Docker lore. The sketch includes quips about guilt, sentences, and the judge’s stern humor, with tales of Bathurst and Goulburn gaols and a burglar misplacing his drink and home.
A practical guide detailing a zinc or galvanised iron butter cooler. It explains forming a tapered cylindrical inner cone, outer ring, and ventilation holes, then assembling with a top handle. The gap is filled with cold water and a cloth placed to enhance evaporation and cooling.
Optician D I McDonald F B C A Honivrs F S MC London of Webster Laei McDonald Sydney Limited Opticians and Optometrists will attend and may be consulted at Commercial Hotel Gloucester or Friday November 20 Hours of visit 9am to 5pm Appointments may also be booked at A L Cavanoughs Chemist
The Hunter River below Singleton has ceased to flow and stock and irrigation supplies are drawn from waterholes. An official appeal urges Ki ter Valley irrigationists to cut pumping as river levels stay low after a prolonged dry spell. Questions arise over using 3000 pounds for a Humter Valley water conservation scheme and government action to prevent idle plants and losses.
Four policemen visited Sidney Herbert Harding, a 42-year-old Sidcup clerk, after a confrontation. The assault summons against Harding was dismissed next day. defense argued Harding might have justified kicking the officers if he had footwear. The issue stemmed from a husband and wife quarrel, magistrate allowing Harding to proceed with summonses against the policemen for alleged assault.
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