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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 06, 1938
Page
4
A lyrical, fragmentary travel piece depicts Egyptian fields at dusk. It contrasts nightly stillness with dawn toils of harvesters and fishermen, describing barefoot children, water buffalo, and vivid moonlit scenes. The narration blends mythic imagery with quotidian trade on the lakeshore.
The sunrise scene in Egypt shows farmers waking to work while women nurse babies. Bedouin fishing Arabs, living by the lake, use traditional nets and canoes. Lake Karoun hosts sea fish stocked by the government, despite being land locked, with the scene blending daily labor and ancient routes.
Stillorgan in New South Wales grows a progressive Jersey stud led by Me A L Whyte-Butler and sister Allas Whyte-Butler. The founders started with varied cows and limited capital, building a productive herd from Bulby stock and careful pasture improvement to raise butterfat output and future breeding success.
John Murchison recounts an 1838 overland trip from Sydney to Melbourne with Captain Dougall McLachlan. They face bushrangers near Gunning and Yass, McLachlan firing a five barrel revolver while pursued. They encounter Reynolds and Scotchie, both later executed. The party meets Faithfull’s fugitives near Ovens, and notes camps of Colonel White and his son. From Sydney Evening News November 8th 1896.
The Wingham Chronicle denounces sending printing work to Sydney or Newcastle. It claims local offices, staff, and four presenting families rely on in-town printing while urging city businesses and councils to patronize the local printer. It asserts cooperation boosts North Coast residents and that local shopkeepers spend their money locally.
The Public Library in Sydney reports rising demand for reference and educational works. In a year it lent 56 644 reference volumes and 113 371 other books to country organizations and individuals, reaching distant schools, boundary stations, and isolated subsidised schools. A letter from Borambil notes weekly mail limits and credit to a student who later graduated with honours at Sydney University.
A pearl necklace with diamond clasp valued over £3000 was found among lumber in a disused Clerkenwell garage. Sydney Gordon Pollard, a Camden Town dealer, is committed for trial on receiving the necklace between 1936 and April 15 this year. Pollard pleads not guilty.
Fragmentary notes recount a court scene involving Sharpe and Dunkely over valuable pearls seized from a daughter’s estate. The magistrate, Mr Brodrick, refused to grant Pollard access to some funds, with references to E100 and May 1936 theft.
The winner of an American Deputy contest reportedly received a marriage proposal from the son of an Arabian sheik. The young woman declined, opting not to entertain the Hesart heir.
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