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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 28, 1926
Page
2
The issue reports a Gloucester Shire update with plans for a soldiers' reunion, cricket fixtures, and local celebrations. It covers Mr James Kennedy's departure after seventeen years, a Chinese massacre report, butter vitamin tests funding, auditor general critique, and school reopening progress, plus community notices and a medical/industrial snippet.
The Park hosted the season opener between Gloucester and Dungog districts with Gloucester posting 229 as Wellard and Monro anchored a 100 plus stand while Abbott led the bowling with 3 for 27. The visitors replied with 224 aided by Jack and Shelton. Separately, market fronts detailed cattle consignments, brisk but not record prices, with bullocks trading from 40 to 42 shillings and prime weights fetching varied sums alongside sheep and porkers. buyers and sellers reported fluctuating demand in fair but unsettled conditions.
A damaged listing fragment shows garbled text about sale of items or property. Readable names or places are not clear, but hints imply a classified sale notice with uncertain details and limited legible identifiers.
Partial OCR reading shows a jumble of prices items and names. Readable bits include references to onions beeswax and dates. No coherent event or person names form a full news item.
Commercial Sunday's sale reported high quality cattle including heavy bullocks. Yard trade was brisk with buyers bidding freely. Prices ranged with eightweight steers at 34 to 38 per hundredweight, prime heavy cattle around 27 to 27.5, and lighter lots at 25 to 26 per hundredweight.
Fragmented notes from Barrington document early 20th century events, including a musical preparation by an orchestra, a Sunday appearance, and farmers’ hopes. The prose is garbled with many unreadable words, but references to a church gathering, a feast week, and a meeting on September 22 1918 appear amid dated reminiscences and local names.
Mr Gahan, head of Commonwealth railways, talks with New America on preventing holler corrosion by water. He questions internal combustion schemes used in the United States and plans a Ragland month study to rebine automotives. He notes American railways invest in motor vehicles for feeders to meet competition, a strategy Gahan sees as applicable to the Commonwealth.
An escaped baboon near Crystal Page spooked travelers at Watleet station overturning a money bowl and tickets. A passenger paid for a London ticket through a window as officers restrained the creature before it was recaptured. In local news at Taree Show Sprinty, a £2 per committee member pledge supported a £100 prize for a horse to beat a high jump record, with £15 more planned for breaking the society’s mark.
The Victoria Board reports a rise in land values linked to highway improvements. It notes that since road upgrades began, land and property values in New South Wales districts have increased by £28,009,000, with no other factor likely accounting for the gains. Critics argue road users and landowners share the burden, while motorists benefit from safer roads.
The entry notes a giant hanihoa reaching up to 420 feet, growing roughly a foot in May. It compares animal hides, saying a cow hide yields about 35 pounds of feather, while a horse hide yields about 20 pounds.
Presbyterain services listed with Rev Garner at Barrington Church and Methodists. Barrington Church schedule shows choir practice Thursday evening. Upper Craven Creek Manning events and Copeland evening program noted. other details partial lingering from OCR.
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