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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 18, 1931
Page
3
A dense collection of wry sayings, jokes, and advice notes from a 1931 issue. Snippets touch on elections, Christmas, mutual observations, love, light humor, and social commentary. It mentions Gladstone, a nursing home, and a telephone number, weaving into a miscellany tone.
Georgetown harvest work continues as weather and yields stay favorable. A Friday party at P J Noonan’s home celebrated Jack Noonan’s 21st birthday with singing, dancing, supper, and gifts. An aid concert for Minda followed in District Hall featuring Jack Fewster and company. Sunday saw the death of Joe Pickles, a long-time town identity, with a large funeral conducted by Rev A H Kenner Baptist minister.
Kadina notes list horses for Saturday events including Novice Race with Maris Maid or Double Error, Flying-Mary Bob or Duality, Summer Hurdle Rose Deleum of Last Trick Trials with Simba or Unification, Jumpers Flat-Outram or Mrasevilo, and Totalizator Hurdle with Mary Bob or Santa Mart.
Fifty years ago at Booyoolle Hotel a farewell social for W Moorhouse marked his Gladstone departure. An illuminated address honored Bishop Reynolds visiting Georgetown. Reynolds led St Peters Church consecration before about 250 attendees. A Jamestown banquet for the late Mayor Cockburn followed a Booyoolie Georgetown cricket match.
Governor Gihidstone argues against limiting the Wheat Bounty to production rather than export value. He warns that SA farmers suffer under federal disability and urges support for a uniform bounty to aid wheat growers across Australia.
Gladstone District Council held December 11 1931 with Chair W B Bennett and Drs J R Potter G M Black C H Lines and Clerk C Budge present. An apology from Dr M Page. Minutes read and approved including Overseer’s report. Payable £83 4 1. Notices to vermin to ratepayers in January proposed. Delegation from SA Chamber of Manufacturers discussed farm side-lines. Special meeting set for December 18 to review Federal Aid tenders. Old safe to Bowling Club if usable.
The Chadstone sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers League met at Memorial Hall with 20 members present. They set the annual Christmas Tree for Friday December 18 at 7 pm, open to all children of returned men. A letter of thanks was planned for the ladies who sold pop pies, and the National Anthem will be reintroduced after patron concerns.
Parents and friends attended a Friday Visiting Day at Gladstone Primary School to view sewing and woodwork displays. An infant department display pleased visitors as pupils performed music and elocution while prize winners across grades were announced and honored by Mr. R. B. Lines.
Texaco expands a string of construction in Australia to provide about 100000 man hours of work at standard pay. The effort covers 16000 hours in Western Australia, 1000 in South Australia, 11000 in Victoria, 0 in Sydney, 11000 in New South Wales and 37000 in Brisbane. Projects include horizontal steel tanks built from rolled plates and erected by Australian workers with reinforced supports, backed by a capital outlay of 206 15 plus 2900000 spent on last three years’ plant and equipment for Texaco fuels and lubricants.
Gladstone ratepayers won a unanimous council decision Wednesday evening to reduce the rate in the pound from 2 shillings 8 pence to 2 shillings 4 pence for the ensuing year.
In Gladstone last Saturday Jamestown chased 145 runs with key scores from B May 58 H Heride 21 and Senter 16. Gladstone's Jack Thomson nearly a century with 95 and Vie Coe added 41 not out. Jamestown won by eight wickets at Gladstone, with Thomson taking multiple wickets in the match. Gladstone will host Jamestown next Saturday.
The report outlines the Public Hospitals Charges Act requiring motorists to report accidents within 24 hours and directs hospital treatment payments to go to the Hospitals Department up to 25 guineas. It notes the act targets private hospitals and urges hospitals to receive direct payment from offenders or insurers, not from injured parties. It also details a Belalie Fire Fighting Association prize for bush fire essays, listing winners Blanche Reding and Mary Rodeghiero for girls and Jack Kerinf Bunodaleer Springs School and Garrell Thomas Jamestown Primary School for boys, and prints the winning girl’s essay on prevention and control.
An advertisement recounts Mrs Hill’s tale of a cold settling on the kidneys causing backache. Four bottles of Doan's Backache Kidney Pills relieved pain and improved health, with a later update eight years on noting no recurrence. The notice cautions buyers to ensure they get Doan's.
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