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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 05, 1948
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text recounts a voyage with named individuals and locations including Europe Amsterdam and various persons. It mixes shipboard events, departures, and scattered dialogue, but readability is poor with numerous garbled terms and embedded proper nouns.
The narrator describes a morning visit to the Oud Kirk of the Dutch Reformed Church, noting its austere service, central pulpit, and four standing levies for seats poor, church, orphans, and faith. Describes narrow seating, a row of hymn singing, temporary stained windows, and wartime damage. TO BE CONTINUE.
A garbled notice references a sale or event labeled Prom Tuncuary with figures 145.2m Can edts and a Sydney location. It mentions a driver and a proprietor Brian Ivens, indicating a local business or transport matter with unclear timing and details.
The auction tally lists 2736 cattle yarded with mixed weights. Prices show media and heavy bullocks and cows around 10 to 20 shillings, lighter lots bring similar discounts, with ranges noted for several buyers and districts including Weir RCA Pye Walgett and Mackay Cryon.
Market talk warns of a beef shortage as prices may rise before the Acting Prices Commission. Butchers and Rev Finnan report that unless prices lift, only poor quality meat may be available, with wholesalers unable to bridge the gap between British prices and domestic controls. Local price cited as high as 63 pence per pound.
Inland fields remain waterlogged after severe floods devastated British farmland in spring 1947. Linseed tops are being cut as grain shortages loom, with crop timing pressured by wet conditions. Photo credit notes a linseed harvest at Rochester, Kent, as crews adapt to flood recovery.
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