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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 23, 1943
Page
2
Optometrists D J McDonald F B O A and London honors will visit Glowcoater on Saturday. Details appear to concern Beewribiery site and exhibition at the Commennoit Hate with related reflections and hours.
The Gloucester Voluntary Aids report a lively annual parade in Sydney with a prize to Waleria for best drill and discipline, followed by visits to the Sydney Blood Bank and Government House. Also notes Majestic Theatre features George Formby in Much Too Shy and Belle Starr with a color cast, plus a brief local letter page request for correspondents. Nearby items include no Royal Show for 1944 due to war conditions, a strange high flying aircraft possibly a Japanese Zero, and a report of cattle killed by lightning in Bellingen with no tree damage.
A Gloucester community note lists servicemen on leave and medical exams, including Joe Corbett and two Glow caster ATC members. It recalls Major-General John Paton’s death and his WWI service at Gallipoli and New Guinea, plus plans to explore the Barrington Tops.
A recent Gloucestershire section describes a week of Army training with infantry and mounted units. Exercises included screen operations, flank guards, and a left flank assault on an enemy post, plus a mortar and signaling display.
Saturday results list players Carpenter Bolton Ebbeck 25 Bilis Lawrencs Adams 14 Carthow Monro Sheldon 22 Lowe K Boorer Houghton 14 West Brorson Howdon 12 Cambkins Carolin Rogerson 9 Lamrantus Rye Whateon 20 v Landis Andrews Boster 19. The pairs draw for the Lower North Canat Competition has been on the Notice Board for weeks with no matches yet played.
A series of cattle transfers and purchases by stud breeders across NSW and Vic includes Everett selling a young bull to A W Fernance and others, E W Everett placing a mature bull with Knodler Bros Whittingham, FW White Boggarsh buying three heifers, Baines acquiring a Jersey heifer, and multiple breeders like Milligan Woodleigh Vale and Chisholm Barrington adding high grade Jerseys and bulls from Victoria. Purchases include Dairy Design Dominator by Trotter Beechwood, Climax to Sansom Bros Stratford, and Hobartville stud stock including Horafords and Royal Blend sired by Royal Head.
Mail despatch from Gloucester and surrounding localities is reduced with no mails to Bundock Bulliac Taree German Private Bag and Hooke Private Bag on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Bullis also misses Fridays. Other days mail closes at 2 pm and Saturdays at 12 30 pm. Bernice Siding saves no mail on Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays. Some areas have 10 90 am closes on Mondays and Tuesdays with regional variations for Craven Carsonville Stratford Ward's River Far West Maitland Newcastle and Sydney. Barrington Copeland and Dungog West Maitland Newcastle Sydney routes have specific 5 pm or 12 30 pm close times.
The Provident of the PU Mr Ke C Gibxem explains interim payments by dairy factories for October, at halfpenny rates, due to the Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee fixed advances for July to September. The committee reviews three months’ results, then adjusts advances as actual outcomes emerge, with October-December set at 147/-, plus subsidy advances. The subsidy totals £6,500,000, with production underestimates in April to September noted, and final payments delayed until results are settled.
A smaller Maitland yarding of 650 fat cattle on Monday saw bullock classes dominate with prime heavyweight lots and a few cow consignments. Competition remained strong with slight price rises from the previous day. best bullocks reached £22 1s, good to £17 10s, light steers £13 10s, best cows to £19 1s, and vents to £8 18s 6d. About 600 calves and 400 more in a medium supply were bid, with heavy calves to £5 10s and light stock to £2 6s, while bacon pigs and heavy descrips sold well, backfatters to 19s, choppers to 9s, and heavy porkers to 12s 6d.
Dairymen will have a chance to buy dairy cows at Stroud Road on Saturday when Menara, 1 Carlton and B. W. Sparke offer 48 choice cows in milk and 15 yearlings. Oxley County Council notes the government gazette plans. An agreement between Huntingnhire Council and Port Macquarie Municipal Council forms a new authority to take over and administer the Port Macquarie and Wauchope electricity undertaking.
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