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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 27, 1945
Page
2
An auction notice lists numerous livestock for sale including 10 pigs 10 fat wethers prime ewes fat merino lambs and 64 draught horses 6 years and workers. Conditions require prior arrangement with the auctioneers and entries invited.
Jamestown town and district health boards meet to discuss public health duties and oversight. Officials review sanitation, vaccination, and disease control measures affecting residents across Jamestown.
Local Boards of Health urge parents to utilize immunization arrangements for children aged one to twelve. Parents who wish to have their children treated must return the consent form by May 12, 1944, obtainable from school teachers or district secretaries.
Tenders invited for the purchase of the old Bruce Chapel building details include dimensions 28 ft long by 1 ft wide 12 ft high with hip roof and four windows. Tenders addressed to Bruce Church Trust care of WH Abbas Bruce due by th May 1945. No tender necessarily accepted.
The J. R. Watkins Company offers a sales position in the district for direct to the consumer service of essential repeat products. This is presented as a sound business opportunity for a representative based in Adelaide at 18 Victoria Street.
Any person found trespassing on our property at Allotment No. 13 Mill Street Laura or removing anything without authority will be prosecuted. All poultry and dogs found on site will be destroyed. D. J. and M. Herschausen Laura.
Supplies of butter decline due to sustained dry weather and feed shortages. Strong demand persists for Blue Valley butter with high vitamin content, price unchanged at 18l for best quality fresh butter. Eggs production remains down as usual for the season, prices for various grades listed with no change.
Market note offers young clean Corts advertised for sale, inviting readers to write for a new free catalogue to H J Schlenk at Lyndocit 90. Includes solicitation language and location.
An entertainment and advertising snippet lists rooms and programs at various venues. It mentions a Thursday May 3 musical program opening ceremony by Mrs. Brooks at Boolerua Centre with afternoon tea, a St James Catholic event on April 28, and a grand annual ball on July 10, with notes on ad rates and prepayment.
The page lists church services across Jamestown Canowie Belt Appila Laura and Crystal Brook with multiple times and pastors including Rev J C Gilson Rev C R Hawke and Rev E Jew. It also notes RAAF personnel leaves James town Gladstone and Laura and a wedding preparty for Bette Williamson and Graham Wilkins and radio officer T Cartwright’s reunion in Pirie Jamestown area personal notes reference holidays sickness and a local accident.
Harald Rayman and his Merry Makers of 1945 visit for the Blind Deaf and Children's home in Brighton. The company performs at Cristal Brook May 1, Laura May 2, Jamestown May 3, and Georgetown May 4.
Experimental horticulturist L J Cook advises sowing four tablespoons per acre on a moist firm seed bed for Wimmera rye grass. He cites 230000 seeds per pound with 63 percent germination yielding about 130000 viable seeds per pound and recommends rolling land before drilling for best establishment.
A large crowd gathered in Jamestown for Anzac commemorations on a sunny April 22. The ceremony in Institute Hall featured a procession by Returned Soldiers Red Cross Aids and V D C units to the Monument and Memorial Arch, then a service led by Mayor Daly with clergy from several denominations. Captain Drummond spoke on sacrifice and remembrance. Last Post and Reveille sounded, National Anthem sung, and a Distressed Soldiers fund collection raised £19.
Community events at Crystal Brook include an artillery versus ammunition football match won by the artillery team, a dance at the Institute with music by the Andrews Sisters, and fundraisers raising money for FRCE and the Pin-up Girl Miss M. Wilson. Also noted are church services, birthday celebrations for Clem, and local travel and conference attendance details.
Jamestown High School greeted Peterborough High School visitors with refreshments before matches at 9. Peterborough won cricket on 237 runs and 9 for 89 after 9 wickets. Jamestown 237 announced and 104 by Clift. Jamestown girls won 10 sets to 2 with multiple close results in tennis.
At the March meeting of the Booborowie and Spalding Methodist Circuit Missioner G C Dunn and Mrs Dunn were bid farewell as Dunn’s 12 months of service ended. Missioner M D Pascoe and family were welcomed on April 15 and have joined to help fill minister vacancies during the war. A combined Anzac Service of Remembrance was held April 22 at the Spalding District Hall with wreath laying on the War Memorial and scripture read. A Thanksgiving Service was planned for the day after Europe’s cessation of hostilities, with church representatives including Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist members attending.
At the FFCF monthly meeting led by Mrs Hunt the group decided to send a hamper to Adelaide for the Trading Table in the Pin Up Girl contest featuring Miss Mavis Simmons as Yarcowie BC Girl A. A dance for her is set at Yarcowie Hall on May 1. President Roosevelt remembered at the 2 minute silence.
Anzac memorial events marked the Gallipoli landing anniversary in Laura. A 3 pm service at the Town Hall, led by Revs Davies Wiseman with a combined choir, included wreaths at the Memorial. An evening service at the Methodist Church featured Rev Wiseman and the choir performing Sunday Sun of My Soul and Crossing the Thar.
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