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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
3
Gladstone Corporation annual meeting featured mayoral candidates addressing ratepayers. Variety of opinions on road works and council actions aired, with endorsements and calls for support in upcoming elections. A later note recounts a palm burn relief testimonial for Chamberlain's Pain-Balm.
G M Shepherd has been gazetted lieutenant in the Balaklava corps of the Commonwealth Military Light Horse. The unit held its first mounted drill with 20 men on parade on Wednesday afternoon, November 27, and the officer is pleased by the attendance, with no less than 19 present on any occasion. Balaklava will host the squadron comprising Clare, Kadina, Moonta, Jamroo, and Balaklava. Premises on Howe Street, recently occupied by Harry Virgo, are taken for military use. equipment will be issued to men soon as senior cadets hold all uniforms and rifles.
A fragmentary 1912 era column surveys weather, elections, and public life. Mentions Parliament, Melbourne, and New South Wales affairs, plus scattered stray notices of mayors, immigrants, disasters, and curiosities. The tone is a brisk, omnibus digest with many named places and figures.
Minutes from Port Germain district council at Mylrose record His Excellency's reception arrangements and committee notes. Reports cover road works, surveys, telephones, fences, weed destruction, park lands, contracts, and travel etiquette. payments and leave ratified.
A garbled report notes objections to a watering closure and a request to adopt a shilling rate for 101413. Burgeas sought extension of Wat Derby’s contract at Narridy, with references to Faymont District Avcour and amounts £119 IFA and £184 on Main Road.
A long mixed column reports community happenings across towns including CALTOWTE and BALABBA. It notes church attendance, postmaster duties, circus entertainment, harvest progress, dairy and wheat yields, school concerts, exams, and social events with several named residents and venues.
Misens G Hoepper M Dick and Crissie Bolling led a musical programme arranged by the Teachers Mitsou M Hovanae and W Fidler with Mr W Mugford as actor chairman. Participants included Balaklava Brass Band A J Grater Mina Healy Q Waph Wonler N Reuter Slowan Davie N Reuter Lameron and V Gibbine among others. A pink and green decorative supper followed. later Mr John Reid delivered a season-opening piece at Woods. In a separate note, Mr Ray Reid’s wheat yield near Glayay caused a farm accident when his horses bolted, smashing the paddock gate and injuring a stump but no serious harm occurred.
A fragmented note cites a user praising Obatubertain’s Tablets as the finest medicine for dull or frowning moods. The speaker claims relief and frequent use, mentioning Allen and a location, with garbled OCR text surrounding names Min Liddell Morrisob Wan Ranul Wiz and others.
A Balaklava teacher, Mr J T Barnes, currently relieving Mr R Burton on sick leave, is urged for permanent appointment. The town supports his continued service, noting good progress under his direction and a widely signed petition to the Education Dictator. His ill health is understood to have contributed to Burton's end of year resignation.
Louis Grean of Perth thanks Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for relief to his baby daughter Ivy who suffered severe colds. The note says the remedy gives quick relief and cures her colds and mentions it is sold by Y. Allen. The ending includes a garbled vendor line.
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