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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 10, 1925
Page
3
A long, fragmentary writeup covers a Merrymakers social with a euchre tournament, dances, prizes, and juvenile entries. It lists participants, honored guests, and gifts, and notes proceeds and acknowledgements to donors and organizers. Additional items describe a subsequent public reception and a hospitalization scene following a shipboard incident.
The schedule lists services for Sunday after Trinity in Gloucester and Barrington with times 8.30 Holy Communion at Gloucester Gopeland 11 Bar rington 2.30 Gloucester 7.20 and Presbyterian services at Wiklund 44 Barrington Hall. Rev. TW Rogers leads Presbyterian services and additional locations include Barrington Hall and Gloucester churches.
A column critiques public figures and big employers for supporting Prohibition while indulging in alcohol and related excesses. It argues a class of well connected magnates act with immunity, posing as moral guardians yet often ignoring the Act themselves. The text references officials, lawyers, judges, and merchants as part of this hypocrisy in a Gloucester context, with church notices and services interwoven.
About 2800 cattle listed at Paget with a lively market. Prime bullocks up 20s to 25s, extra choice light steers 40s to 44s, primes 37s to 39s, prime heavy cattle 35s to 38s per 100 lb. Cattle yarded with mixed quality, many dairy cows and sealers present. best yards firming, plain grades improving.
Fragmentary OCR describes Maitland stock sale with lots of prime cattle and a final day showing at improved rates. Mentions profitable prices, quality stock, and commission details but many words are garbled. Names, dates, or exact figures are unclear due to damaged text.
Prices for cows and vealers ranged from 3 to 10 pounds per head with prime and weighty yards at 8 to 9/10. Extra prime to 11/44, best vealera to 7 pounds, and various grades of porkers and stores showing brisk demand. Reports note good yarns and large consignments, with improved porker prices and notable activity among buyers and vendors.
In a notable acquisition, Broadhalfpenny Down cricket birthplace near Hambledon Hants has been purchased by Winchester College. The sale marks a historic transfer of a storied site tied to English cricket heritage.
Save your money and your district by supporting permanent local traders who are interested in serving you well. Get in while bargains are offering.
Reedable fragment describes Stevenson and Co in Sydney with appointments and staff references. Mentions Sunley, Channell, and Newsagent Bennie, with scattered phrases about receiving items and returning them the same day. Details are garbled and names unclear.
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