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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 03, 1952
Page
2
Webster, Jack & McDonald Optometrists and Opticians, with Mr I Bell MLO, will visit Gloucester on Friday, 3 November, from 8 pm to 5 pm, at the Commercial Hotel. Appointments available via Street & Parish Pty Ltd phone Gloucester Sydney PTY LTD.
Bill Dearden resigns from W. E. Boarke Pty Ltd of Gloucester to return to Tenterfield for pastoral work. John Hooke of “Skibo” will replace him with extensive cattle experience seen as an asset. Also notes Gloucester Sparks concert next Thursday in Parish Hall and local tennis and cricket notices with schedules and lineups.
Minister J B Renshaw approved a grant of £8010 to Gloucester Shire Council for 1982-85 funded under the Commonwealth Add Roads Act. The council will be advised soon of the works schedule and spending conditions.
The NSW Anti-TB Association mobile clinic opens in Gloucester starting October 21 with 1120 bookings already received. Officials aim for 2000 bookings before operations begin and urge residents to secure X-ray times at the Shire Chambers or by phone.
Associates held a Wednesday championship foursomes with Mrs Woodford and Mrs R Smith taking top honors for a gross 101 28. Reichert and Sansom won the net with 108 28 in a closely contested event.
Pigs at Sydney auctions saw weaker demand with 2,387 penned. Backfaters fell about £2, baconers and porkers down 10 shillings. Prime heavy backfatters reached £44 per head, baconers to £18 8, lighter to £16 8 6, porkers to £12 6 1.
Personal congratulations to Mr and Mrs Jack Stewart on the birth of a son at Roma Hospital. Several patients underwent appendectomies at Roma Hospital. Multiple residents and staff are listed with hospital admissions and discharges, including Mick Goolam Booth and Joan Bory, plus a death of Mrs F E Hoad aged 81 at Taree.
A Supreme Court jury awarded £40,600 to Mrs. Mary Imial Scott of Windang in a case against Leo John Gleeson of Wingham and Jack Lionel Canton of Port Kembla. The collision on the Port Kembla Windang road on November 5 last caused career ending injuries for Mrs. Scott. The jury found Gleeson negligent. Conlon was not found negligent.
The Gloucester weather record notes August was the wettest on record with eight inches while September was among the driest spring months. Post office registration for last month rose only 12 points over four days and October began with 16 points from a midweek storm.
Section details announce bakeware and craft contests for school children including cakes pastries biscuits and decorated bikes dolls prams and cardboard models. Prizes list best plates and drawings across age groups with emphasis on funds for the Bazaar and school support.
Dalgetys reports 3060 cattle at Winchcombe with prices 2 to 3 dearer. Bullocks to 128 shillings, steers up to 134, heifers 112 to 120, cows 100. Yearling vealers 145 to 180 per hundred, midweek truckings tally 200 waggon loads.
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