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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 05, 1937
Page
3
Senior agricultural instructor urges every potato grower to plant a stud plot each year using certified seed. Isolate plots, roguing, early planning, and proper soil prep are vital. Rotate with green manure, use clover for soil renovation, and space rows about twenty eight to the chain. Selection continues at digging time, reject inferior tubers and poor yields.
A young man in a bad mood wheels a baby carriage outside flats, loudly arguing with a voice from an upper window. An hour later the same window pleads to George, asking if the pipes have burst, then notes Betty’s roll is being wheeled all afternoon and urges giving the baby a turn.
For twenty years Australians have saved by making a family cough and influenza remedy with HEENZO. Add a two shilling bottle of concentrated HEENZO to water to make a cure equal in quantity and quality to ready-made remedies for chest and throat ailments. Purity of HEENZO suits babies and adults.
NSW and Queensland weather poor for butter. SA near peak, rains needed to prolong season. WA output rising. Tasmania even consumption. Victoria up. London stocks low at 7,500 boxes. weekly sales 14,000 boxes with salted Kangaroo at 122/6 and unsalted 121/-. Prices quoted across CIF and FOB terms with varied salted and unsalted figures.
An artist hired to renovate church paintings in Belgium submitted an itemised bill totaling 13 pounds 11 shillings 10 pence. The entries mix humorous, biblical repairs such as correcting the Ten Commandments, restoring Heaven, mending Noah’s Ark, and brightening Hell, with whimsical line items and odd jobs for the damned.
Dave Davis Dance Band and Entertainers will perform at Waukivory Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday next the 12th and 18th. Residents are urged not to miss the great night of dancing and entertainment.
A collage of quirky notes from diverse topics includes garden beetles, a Michigan scientist on lightning, prison warders insomnia, a rebated income tax joke, sea-sickness remedies, a Midlands eel sighting, and Scots running taps for free goldfish, forming a miscellaneous clippings style item.
Electors eligible for postal voting must be outside polling locations or unable to attend due to travel or infirmity. Applications for a postal vote certificate and papers may be obtained from Divisional Returning Officers or Electoral Registrars or at any Post Office. Applications may be made after September 24, 1937 and before Polling Day. If abroad or absent from the subdivision, voters may vote by post or at a suitable polling place in the state, with advance submission required.
A Japanese telegram reports 130000 Chinese forces from the third, fifth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifty second divisions massing in North China under General Chiang Kai-shek to halt Japanese advance at all costs. Commanded by General Cheng Chien near Shih Chiah wang, they prepare a decisive stand at a key railway junction. Chinese actions include encirclement attempts of Japanese units south of Tientsin and westward advances toward Tehchow as part of a broader mobilization and retreat of a 60,000 strong garrison.
Brisbane reports that the King and Queen will visit Australia with Prime Minister Lyons stating the monarch will return following a warm 1927 reception as Duke of York. Lyons indicated the Queen may accompany the King, addressing civic crowds in City Hall.
During a visit to England Mr M Syme of Melbourne observed new housing suburbs in London Glasgow and Liverpool. Inverness County Council built one story brick houses with gardens six to a pair, three rooms plus hall and facilities. rent about £11 yearly plus rates. In New Milton a local builder erects single story homes for sale at about £480 each with dining room two bedrooms kitchen bathroom and hall, with sewerage water electricity and gas.
Church services for the 20th Sunday after Trinity across Gloucester Nab ine Forster and surrounding areas list times for Church of England Congregational and Baptist gatherings. Details include Rev A N Williamson Rev Wm Griffith Cochrane and other ministers with sessions at 11 30 2 30 7 30 across locations such as Gloucester Nabine Copeland Coolongolook Forster Ward s River Craven Creek Bundock and Stroud.
The Great O Malley presents trials and triumphs of everyday poor folk in a big city as a supporting feature to Rose Marie at Star and Majestic on Saturday and Monday next.
NRMA reports road work on O Sullivans Gap between Bullahdelah and Nabtac nearly finished with fencing completed to improve safety. Gangs near Bullahdelah straighten the road, likely to take months, while Taree and Tuncurry routes remain passable though Gloucester route is preferred. Coast road Bungwahl to Borster under construction, expect rough travel until progress improves.
Extract from the annual report of the Commission for Railways shows ongoing track work to handle heavy high speed trains between Kyogle and South Brisbane. In 200 journeys the Brisbane Sydney express was late only 12 times, mostly around holidays when excursionists returned home.
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