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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 07, 1930
Page
3
Local sporting page highlights junior cricket events with focus on Crown Club standings and upcoming fixtures. Notes include player names and team affiliations, emphasizing junior level match results and community club activities for the season.
Pupils at Us eater Public School endured extreme heat while taking the final primary examination. The test, replacing older formats since 1911 and the PACE, determines eligibility for State High School and bursaries. Local committees report a generally fair assessment, with students facing challenging Part I questions and a poetry section.
Avon Valley beat Glowcester Blyve by one wicket and 43 runs in separate fixtures. J Wellh scored 43 for Avon Valley with 19 synd Gh Baston added 24, while The Farhr bowled well for Garners, and HL Gray top scored 23 for Tamers. Free Will represented AVan Vothis in the second test, with players Wellandryphens A Wilson B Mellant Winn Wilson Gray Donner Athina J May 413 Co Sterat.
Incoherent OCR fragment shows a courtroom or health job related dialogue with names and terms like convicetion, health liparanant, and neuritis. The text is garbled, rendering clear facts about people, places, or events unreadable.
Miss Goulston, daughter of Sol Goulston, of Dr. G H Chapman’s Sydney University cancer research team, tested radium on an immature chicken embryo. Radium needles thickened the embryonic membrane within hours, suggesting possible cancer treatment implications. Dr. Chapman noted no immediate cure, but ongoing advances stress early treatment. He cautioned against blaming smoking or sun exposure as sole cancer causes and described varying hereditary susceptibility in families. Further research is needed to identify the decisive factor.
In Canberra the scene erupts as Mr. Lazzarini defends himself after seconding Mr. Yates’s call for contempt against the Adelaide editor. Tempers flare with accusations of repudiation and claims newspapers live on lies, the Speaker warnings, and an eventual withdrawal and apology.
Waddell and Co summarize a modest cattle turnout with brisk demand for good springers and heifers. Prices cited for J J Atkins, W A Harris, T Nash, Fanks, and Brown, plus private springers and bull lots, with next sale announced for Tuesday November 11. At Mebush Stock Sales Sydney, 1650 head offered, war-time demand strong and prices up to 40s for prime beef, with various farmyard lots and local buyers listed. Pig values unchanged with medium quality pigs dominating a 900 head sale. backfatters 50-130 per head and porkers 28-46. calves and calves’ prices noted.
Phar Lap proved a great racehorse as he won the Melbourne Cup amid £75 handicap sweepstakes and £10,000 added prize money. Second Wind and Shadow King chased the legend, with First trained by H R Telford and J Pike aboard. Temptation led early before Phar Lap surged to the front and drew clear in the final stretch.
When purchasing a watch, Coote provides practical experience to guide decisions. The advice emphasizes understanding features, durability, and value to help customers select a reliable timepiece.
Phar Lap led from early in the straight, drawing away to win by three lengths over Second Wind. Shadow King finished third three-quarters of a length back, with Donald fourth and Veilmond fifth as the field followed in order including First Acre Tregilla Soulton Some Quality Muratti Balloon King Star God Temptation Nadean Carradale. Time 3.273.
For about a decade the Local Government Act aided mosquito eradication but recent years show councils slow to act. Mosquito Ordinance now in over 100 municipalities and 50 villages. occupiers must cover water containers or drain standing water every seven days, and prevent rainwater pools or containers from breeding mosquitoes. Local councils may require draining water or filling low areas, and treat or destroy water-holding tins and bottles. Costly measures like mosquito curtains and sprays may be needed in larger waterways. enforcement aims to eradicate mosquitoes where geography permits.
The current issue showcases non-technical articles on Australia’s natural life and collections donated by Dr. G A Waterhouse including Australian butterflies and Mallusca. Notable pieces cover the Nullarbor fauna, whale wealth and Antarctic whaling, Black Australia, and freshwater eel descriptions.
Edward Henry Hardes 48 died at Lansdowne last week. A native of Raymond Terrace he moved to Manning 24 years ago and married Miss Harriett Mudford of Ward's River. Survived by wife and 15 children, with sons Stanley Leane Albert Ernest Clarence Cecil Lansdowne. Harold Amos Clyde Taree. daughters Mrs C A Emerton Dungog and Lansdowne, Mrs P Tulen Taree, Mrs R George Pampoolah, and Irene Alma Rita Dulcie. Also survived by brother Thomas of Maitland and sisters Mrs Hitchcock Rockdale Mrs T H Davis Raymond Terrace and Mrs A Allsopp Kurri Kurri. CARE OF THE EYES advertisement and repair services by Webster Jack and McDonald Sydney Ltd. Government Savings Bank Building 16 Castlereagh Street. Watch for date of visit.
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