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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 10, 1942
Page
2
Residents of Jamestown and District are invited to attend a meeting at the Corporation Chamber at 7.30 pm on Tuesday April 14. Hon. G. P. Jenkins MP will address the proposed Jamestown water supply and its probable cost. Daly Mayor Cronin Chairman DC Jamestown.
Advertisement style notice listing GOOD Selection Working Shirts and strong Khaki shirts from Blaskett, Tailor & Mercer in Jamestown. Also mentions sale items Fulgham, Early Kherson Seed Oats Hannaford graded, and two Row Combines with one late model steel lid. Includes contact via Jamestown phone and miscellaneous clothing and workwear items.
IFINED Accommodation offers single or double rooms with permanent or casual board or meals at ARIADNE Residential located on Irvine Street Jamestown. Phone 72.
Rev. 3.T. Harper announces at Jamestown 11 and 7 Pelalie 2 pm Caltowie with Mr H Mein. Baptists enlist Pastor Alan Dennis for service at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church at 2 p.m.
Miss Edie Creber of Gladstone spends annual holidays in Adelaide. Miss Joan Magner of Adelaide holidays at Gladstone with her parents. Mr Cyril Jolly and Miss Chrissie Jolly of Gladstone holidaying in Adelaide with Miss RK Venuning. Miss Venuning of Adelaide weekended with friends at Gladstone. Mr and Mrs W Creber and family of Iron Knob spent Easter with Mr and Mrs W Gale and Mr W B Gale at Gladstone.
Local residents and service personnel converge on Gladstone for Easter. Families and friends from Adelaide, Whyalla, Terowie, Tumby Bay and nearby towns gather with relatives such as the Leesue, Rock, Glenn, Harris, Hobbs, Maddigan and Jolly households. Overseas servicemen Pte Jack Smith Ted Richards Gus Graham and Doug Bradeck return briefly, sharing greetings with supporters and local hosts amid broad community attendance.
Pte Jack Magner and Pte Jim Magner have returned from overseas service with the ALF and paid a visit to their parents in Gladstone this week.
The Gladstone Home Guard plans a parade on Sunday morning April 12 at 9 30 in the old Council Chamber. Attendance is requested as the event carries important business.
On Thursday April 2 a bridge afternoon at the Gladstone Croquet Clubhouse ended with Miss Jean Pearce as winner. Tea followed with members of the ladies bowling and tennis clubs attending. Proceeds for the Red Cross Circle totaled £4.
A fair number of men including farmers assisted in digging public air raid trenches on Saturday in Gladstone. Trenches were ploughed in Cross Street beside Drage's Butcher Shop and in Fifth Street near Mr F C Grubb's block and the Police Station with further work planned. More volunteers are hoped to attend tomorrow and Sunday to complete the project.
After Sunday evening service at Gladstone Methodist Church the Rev C G Carvosso was farewelled as he leaves the circuit to take over ministry at Yongala Speakers praised his work and fine qualities Mrs J S Fisher presented a set of brushes on behalf of the congregation and Carvosso expressed thanks and best wishes to Yongala friends
Residents of Jamestown Caltowie and nearby country will hear an address from Hon G F Jenkins M P and Mr Jervis on proposed water supply and likely costs. If adopted, work won t proceed during the war but the committee aims to complete reports on tributary schemes to the main Morgan Whyalla system.
Gladstone High School hosts the Parents Association meeting on Tuesday April 14 at 2 30 pm in the high school. A travel talk will be given by the Messrs Slnughes of Boo Yuollee Station. All parents and friends are invited.
Ten evacuees arrived from the Far North by the midnight train and were billeted at therailway station by local quartering officers. Residents’ willing assistance and offers of future help are greatly appreciated. For now, all billeting support should pass through Mrs H T Harslett, Mr J C Thomson, or W S Jarrett.
Lester's Talkies presents the R K O Radio special Lucky Partners starring Ronald Coleman and Ginger Rogers as co stars in a comic love adventure. A supporting feature shows Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in The Flying Deuces with a Foreign Legion caper and daring air stunts. News reels round out the programme.
Disjointed figures show War Savings Certificates totals for the week ending April 2. The report lists several regional sums and the grand aggregate reaching 32,711,393 with multiple district or area tallies and a wartime savings context.
Jamestown council notes returning local servicemen and plans a reading room for men on leave. They express sympathy for the late Mrs. W E Schultze, report on war loan participation, and consider using grant funds for Ayr Street footbridge work. Air raid shelter proposals and staff changes are discussed, with actions approved on holidays, overtime wages, and dog control notices.
A historical fundraising notice lists numerous individual donors and amounts for the Jamestown War Purposes Fund. Totals show £264 13s 9d raised by contributors including Mrs J KR, Miss M Neale, Mrs C Hoffmann, Wyn Wehrmann, and others across several small presents. The RSA Ladies' Committee oversees the appeal.
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