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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 12, 1940
Page
3
Goldsbrough Mort and Co Ltd to hold April market at Yacka next Thursday offering 508 sheep pigs and sun dries. April market at Gladstone cancelled.
The Gladstone Croquet Club hosted an afternoon at Mr. and Mrs. Read’s Gundatone with bridge and croquet won by Mrs. L Darwent and others. A large Gladstone Methodist Church congregation heard Rev G R Parrott conclude three years in the circuit with a sermon on Taking the risk of faith. An Order of Knights and Girls Comrades gathering presented Mrs Parrott a reading lamp and Mr Parrott with O K sleevelinks.
The Gladstone Golf Club will open its 1940 season tomorrow with a ceremony conducted by president Mr C Grubb. Mixed Foursomes are planned and an enjoyable afternoon is anticipated.
The Gladstone Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade thanks donors including J A Flavel one pound one shilling Don Prior one pound H E B Klemm fifteen shillings H A Klemm fifteen shillings W D Pearce ten shillings sixpence H M Pasene ten shillings H C Growdem ten shillings A H Smith ten shillings. Further donations will be published later.
The Georgetown Football Club met at the Institute on March 29 with President G J Noonan presiding. The balance sheet showed £22 10s in funds, credit to careful management by assistant secretary D OConnell. The secretary reported a 7 wins zero losses season with one draw. Treasured thanks were given to E E Lang S T Nancarrow and others. Officers elected included Lang Hinton Noll Sanders Noonan and Smallacombe.
The document lists club officers and volunteers for various associations, details appointments and memberships, plus upcoming events. It notes a practice match visit to Clare, a Mail medal win by Ken Noonan, and several Red Cross, Baptist Women’s Guild, and Agricultural Bureau activities.
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