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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 27, 1943
Page
2
Butter prices hold on Blue Valley with strong demand as cream supplies rise due to fresh cows. Pastures backward in many districts requiring ongoing hand feeding to maintain cattle condition. Eggs production surges with higher surpluses for pulping and drying. eye board rates cut. prices 1st quality Hen 2/9, Medium 4/7, Dusk 1/7.
All classes of saws repaired set and sharpened by experts with many years experience. Wood workers and metal workers cutting tools rotary or straight tine ground and towed in the most modern and complete plant in Adelaide. Work is done by specialists.
An annual subscription fee offers a 10 percent reduction on all fees for the member during a hospital stay and a lower rate for the member’s family. Members also gain a voice in the hospital's management. Aimed at encouraging support and benefiting both the hospital and subscribers.
While Mr. S. W. Thomson B D S serves with the RAAF, Mo. 8 Boyle Dentist of Jamestown will visit Gladstone monthly. He may be consulted at Mr. Wurm's Chemist Shop on the fourth Monday each month from 10 am to 4 pm, commencing 24th May.
Auction at Jamestown Market lists 18 pigs and multiple sheep lots including 50 ewes one year shorn 200 mixed age ewes with 150 Merino lambs at front 930 wethers June July shorn and Bungaree blood 260 wethers 2 and 4 tooth just off shears 100 wethers April shorn 50 fat wethers 50 mixed sex hoggets 20 fat ewes 25 fat lambs 100 mixed sheep including lambs and suckers. Might include various owners.
Gloucester Road Jamestown announces a Tuesday September 7 auction at 2 p.m. by Goldsborough Mort & Co Limited. Goods from the Farmers Co operative Executors and Trustees include lounge suites, beds, wardrobes, tables, chairs, kitchenware, washing machines, rugs, blinds, garden tools and sundries.
Goldsborough Mort & Co Limited offers by auction a large sheep assortment from various owners. Items include 70 ewes, 140 wether ewes, 30 47 ewes, 140 M Rives, 120 Merino ewes, 130 wether lambs, 1104 and 6 year ewes, 35 mixed sex hoggets and pigs. Conditions at sale listed. Clients needing teams should arrange with auctioneers before sale.
Goldsborough Mort and Company Limited auction a farm sale 44 miles east of Crystal Brook and 14 miles southwest of Huddleston on Monday August 30 at 1 pm. Livestock include cows heifers calves pigs and horses with multiple farm implements and sundries offered for cash. Proceeds aid the Fighting Forces comforts fund.
A note from the Australian Military group mentions Jamestown and Ford partners offering new Ford parts. It references a live address for MR. PB. Wilmsicurst and a question about who is voting on behalf of a member.
Growers must confide their orders to one Agent for total requirements. Orders or requisition forms must be signed by the grower and will not be accepted or sacks supplied unless the form shows the grower name, licence number, area, wheat and barley sowing, ready for sale, and number of bags on hand. By order Percy Hutton state superintendent Adelaide Australian Wheat Board 20 Aug 1943.
Optician Mons McMahon will visit Yacka Hotel on Wednesday September 1 from 2.30 to 4.00 and 4.30 to 5.30. Sulnare Hotel hosts September 1 from 4.30 to 5.30. Georgetown Hotel in September 2 from 9.00 to 12.00 noon. Gladstone Commercial Hotel September 2 from 12.30 to 5.30.
Entertainments and Personal items list church notices from multiple parishes with service times and pastors. Local residents share holidays and postings about family travel, military leave, and community events in Laura Gladstone Clover Hill and surrounding areas. A Laura Hampers fundraiser at the Town Hall raised over £19 for the Fighting Forces.
Readable fragments list Rev S T Harper Jamsetown and Rev W Leslie Rehuke North with numbers 120 and 4.15. Mentions Leske Callonte and Rev Leske. Context unclear but records church figures and distances.
Miss Scott has resigned from Camouflage Net Making with regret. Going forward Mr L Coat will receive finished nets and issue firing from the G W A Rest Room Jamestown. Cinderella operetta seats largely booked for High School show at Institute Hall Friday night.
Bra Dymock sold out to military authorities and the billiard saloon tables were removed over the weekend. Mrs M M McGee has taken over the Gladstone Hotel in Laura's main street after previously running the Gawler Arms Hotel at Gawler.
At the annual meeting, the local Red Cross branch elected officers including vice-presidents Mrs Nobiet and Mesdames B Sugg and C Jettner, secretary Mrs H Roocke, and treasurer Mrs Zilm. The balance sheet shows 2879 raised during the year.
The Lancaster bomber, famed for its England to Australia record, will fly over northern towns of the state. On Tuesday August 22 at about 2 30 pm it will pass James Town from Peterborough, with the fire alarm sounded to give residents a clear view of the aircraft.
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