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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 14, 1936
Page
2
Goldsbrough, Mort & Co will auction 522 fat and store sheep cattle and horses on Thursday August 20 at 1.20 pm. Also entries invited and terms arranged with auctioneers prior to sale. Dalgety & Co will offer vast lines of wethers lambs ewes hoggets and cows with numerous calves and Jersey stock in a large mixed stock sale. Terms at sale or with auctioneers prior to sale.
Law and tax notices warn residents to file land tax returns by August 1936 with penalties for late lodgment. Deputy Commissioner MBAR cautions on penalties of £1 and outlines return forms and required details. A separate trespass notice warns against entering Williams Farm areas and Bekulie sections with penalties and destruction of poultry and dogs.
Tenders will be received until Thursday August 47th by secretary WJ Garford for painting the institute front and balcony. Specifications are at the secretary office. No tender necessarily accepted. John Southhr, President.
Joint state and federal tax demands for the year ended 30 June 1936 require all employed persons to lodge returns at the Adelaide Taxation Office by 31 July 1936. Others must file by 81 August 1936. Penalties apply. Government Gazette and state posters provide full details. W P Bishop warns acting commissioners.
The Jamestown Bowling Club will hold its AGM at the Club House at 8 p.m. on Wednesday August 26 1936. Members are urged to attend to receive the presidents report and treasurer’s statement and to transact general business. Nominations for officers are due and will be posted as received. Also the Ladies’ Croquet Club annual meeting is at the same time and place in the Club House.
Smallacombe reports Mary Hlien, beloved aunt of Eileen Gerty Millie Da and Bill, passed away on the 2nd August at Gladstone. Sadly missed. R.LP.
Mounted Constable and Mrs. C Boyce of Redruth spent the weekend at Gladstone with Mrs Boyce's parents the Sargents. Mrs J Herman recently recovered from an operation in Adelaide and returns home to Commercial Hill Gladstone. Mrs W Odgers to leave Georgetown for Prospect next week after 24 years in Gladstone and 12 in Georgetown. Her son R G Odgers district clerk plans to marry Miss C Millard next Wednesday. Odgers family members hold roles in local affairs and public service including H H Odgers district representative for Presidential Assurance Co Ltd W B Odgers a Pompoota schoolteacher. Edna Odgers a nurse at Memorial Hospital North Adelaide Cath Odgers at Angaston hospital. During Mayoress years Mrs Odgers served with credit to herself and town.
A gardener in Box 20 Wirrapara lists 12 succulent roots for a rockery and six herbaceous perennials including Rudbeckia and Shasta Daisy, plus courses of 6 Cannas in color variants, 12 additional Cannas, 3 African Lilies Agapanthus in white blue and double blue, and 2 dog lilies He Merocallus in yellow tones. Also mentions a slave collections are Torn private garden and are all sent varriage all.
Messrs Goldsbrough Mort and Co will hold their monthly market at Gladstone on Tuesday offering 522 sheep 20 cattle 10 pigs 3 horses and sundries.
The Sixty third annual Show of the North Western Agricultural Society will be on September 2. The event features improved exhibits and a 2 mile bicycle race on the new track. First prize is £3 plus a trophy or £1 1s, second £1 10s, third £1. Nominations close August 22 to Secretary GW Gale. President is H B Heaslip, with long time resident status noted for Heaslip and family.
The third round ends tomorrow with Jamestown hosting Crystal Brook and Caltowie facing Gladstone. Outcomes decide which sides advance to the fourth round as teams eye a place in the finals. Players listed include M Read as captain and K Gale among others for Crystal Brook and Gladstone.
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