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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 18, 1930
Page
3
The notice lists cricketing goods available at city prices including leg guards and cricket whites. Items mention Don Bradman gear, white can vas, well padded gear, with prices like 21/ and 19/8 for skeleton and Gold Care respectively.
Gloucester Shire Council debates options for dam management, including sealing or draining the dam, and considers purchasing a garbage cart. It reviews river crossings, park water supply plans, and a promised contribution for town works. The Engineer’s report is deferred to the next issue amid compensation notes and a rubbish complaint.
The council weighs pruning a tree interfering with wires and considers a gate on Noyenne Road at Hanbury Hill not as a public gate. Tenders seek to remove river crossings on Giro road with £1000 pledged by Reichert Field Ltd. An auditor reports clerical work on council records was satisfactory while a fence at the program’s foot draws neglect concerns.
Eyewitness accounts describe a three minute pursuit of outlaw Jimmy Governor. Tom Green cornered him behind a stump and fired as Governor fled up a bank into a creek, where Green’s shot felled him in a scramble through ferns and scrub. Governor later praised the captors and was to be transported to Wingham.
The narrative details Jimmy Governor’s arrest near Wingham after a lengthy chase from Hastings to Bobitr Flat. Constable Stone identifies him. Governor admits to murders including Miss Kerr and Mrs Mawbey, cites motives tied to a white woman’s remarks, and mentions plans to surrender in Dubbo. Large crowds gathered as news spread, with police and officials intensifying the case into the following days.
A local butcher advertises phone 141 with ready stock of mutton and pork. Special cash prices apply on half cuts including mutton cores and hinds, highlighting Best Quality ME EF listing.
A Sydney seed firm advertises cut price bundles of perennial phlox and pentstemon plants. The offer lists various parcel options with multiple varieties, free posts, and low prices, inviting readers to request parcel numbers for No 2 or No 3. The note is signed Shepherd & Son Ltd, Farm and Garden Seeds, Mead Once, Parker Street.
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