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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 27, 1906
Page
4
The Gloucester Advocate changes hands from Walcha resident Frank Townshend to local proprietor John A. McKenzie. The new owner vows to direct the paper from Gloucester with closer community focus, inviting broad support and fair criticism while promising openness to all opinions and public matters.
Judge W D Cox, Gloucester week in Bar rington and Gloucester farms for Sydney Mail prize farming competition. J A M'Kenzie of the Mail ated Guiveyster Races. Nominations for Gloucester races on 10 November extended until October.
In the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday evening the Minister for Works moved the second reading of the North Coast Railway Bill. The debate lasted all night and ended at 7.30 am Thursday, with 42 votes to 28 in favor. The bill then entered Committee and passed with minor alterations. The first section to be undertaken will run from Maitland to the Manning.
The Gloucester Estate sale conducted by Mr J ee McKenzie offered 1 000 cows and heifers on account of the Gloucester Estate Ltd. Cows sold up to 4 and shelf to 5. Purchasers included Mesera T Ellinn¢Pherson EB Smith J Enright H acre and F A Hooke. 22 elc were sold and realized up to A.
Fat cattle in small yardings and higher prices with strong buyer turnout. Store cattle show heavy yardings and large buyer attendance. top bullock yard worth £725 6d, steers to £6 15s 4d, cows strong with good demand for near calving springers. Pigs good yardings, buyers present but fat pigs below last week. stones scarce and very dear.
In a Gloucester River cricket match on the Gloucester River wicket, Gloucester River beat Barrinaroy by 42 runs. Highlights include Bert Cornish’s effective bowling Wes Cornish and A and T Ross in good form, and Cornish as competent wicket keeper. Police court notes follow with liquor act prosecutions and local cases.
Government notices announce meetings of Local Land Boards under the Crown Lands Act to be held at Strout Court House Gloucester Maitland and local laws board office on specified dates in November and October 1906 1908.
Loval Land Board Maitland directs objections to be written by 17 November 1808 regarding a Special Lease notice in the Government Gazette of 17 October. Local Land Board inquiry to be concluded at hearing for each Special Tenure, with late objections ignored. Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Co Ltd seeks wharf site near Corrie Island at the north eastern end of Myall River.
District notes record the School of Arts renovation in Stroud with a ground floor billiard room, a new plan, and a rebuilt front. Main road through Stroud to be straightened after contractor M F Daunt completes work, improving traffic flow. An accident at Mill Creek injures Mr James K Martin, fracture of several ribs, now recovering. Mr J A McKensie's fortnightly cattle sale yields about 300 head with prices up from last market. fat bullocks to 7 10s, cows to 6, store cattle to 4 10s, steers to 4, store cows to 3, 108 animals to 6, pigs to 1 1s 6d.
A public meeting was held at Gloucester School of Arts to plan a farewell for Mr and Mrs de Grudy. J A McKenzie chaired, W W Howdon was secretary, and a public farewell is set for Wednesday at 8 pm with musical items. A committee of McKenzie Atkinson Trenbath Riddell Fairbairn Dr Wright and the secretary will oversee arrangements.
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