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Newspaper

Manilla Express

Location

Manilla, New South Wales, Australia

Date

Dec 20, 1935

Page

3

Scotch Clergyman Gilmour Shares Quick Wit at Jubilee

Rev M K Gilmour of the Methodist Conference, a Glasgow born Scotchman, delighted attendees at the Manila Jubilee with a joke about a Scots mother awaiting letters from her son in Australia. The tale notes the mother’s habit of paying the postal sixpence and the officer who eventually covered the charge.

Methodist Conference M. K. Gilmour Glasgow Manilla Australia Jock

Jock’s Fate Determined by Unsent Untamped Letter

An astonished official learns from Jock’s mother that the son is neither dead nor married nor unemployed and may return home, as they arranged in advance that he would send an unsigned untamped letter if he avoided these troubles.

Jocle Jock

Prize distribution at St Andrews Presbyterian Sunday School

Sunday morning prize giving by Rev H M Mitchell with Miss D M Thomas awarded a Bagater’s Teacher’s Bible. Prizes listed for Senior, Junior, Primary and Kindergarten pupils across boys and girls, with special prizes to several named students. afternoon at Somerton Church continued with prize awards for Intermediate, Junior, Primary and Kindergarten classes.

St. Andrew's Presbyterian M. Mitchell Sun J. N.kennnedy Mitchell D. M. Thomas Jowas J. N. Kennedy Ken Bignall Hedley Cadden Allan Grantham Misa Mavis Grantham Jean Wheeler Loubet Annie Dengate Hazelie Mitchell John Wheeler Mar’ Grantham Ron Walmsley Miss N. Adie Auriel Mitchell Judith Woolaston Dorothy McDougallard Mrs. Mitchell Dorothy Grantham Ena Robinson Gwen Pidgeon Peg Grant D. Thomas Margaret Grantham Jill Embury Joy Wilson Shirley Hall Ella Hughes Mary Dengate Jean Gannon Sybil Baker Shirley Bell A. Rodgera Doug. Turner Keith Smith Austin Kelly Bob Miller Keith Sutherland Gordon John Strachan Russell Brown Bob Brown Don Moffatt Jim Gannon Les Hall Allan Doak Sonny Coote Stan Coote Max Hall John Turner Pearl Price Don McMillan Laurie Sutherland Dorothy Richmond Daphne Richmond Mark Turner Somerton Presbyterian S. M. Mitchell Bruce Norrin Graeme Whittaker Ivan Hatch Tunior A Norris Barbara Award Jean Stewart Rows Chaffey Tunior B Chaffey Bob Davidson Betty Cooper Ethel Poetschka Mins H. O'Regan Todds Hatch Joan Chaffey Keith Norris Kindercarten Mise K. Woolasten Tan Chaffey Roma Rodgers Tan Whittaker

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