22 Dec 1933
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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1933
Page
1
The Hancock couple of Gladstone celebrate his 75th birthday on December 14 and their 51st anniversary. The article outlines Mr Hancock's long South Australian career from Devonshire birth to Gladstone businessman, mayor, and longtime justice of the peace, detailing family and career milestones.
The notices report the sudden death of Mrs Elizabeth Ann Harris of Kapunda born in Cornwall in 1855 and the death of Mrs Jane Edwards of Jamestown born in 1857. Harris leaves six young children and several relatives. Edwards leaves four sons and six daughters. Both families receive community sympathy and funeral rites were held with local clergy.
Judged by E Orchard district agricultural instructor. Awards list shows A Maitland Rochester Nabawa 195 percent and multiple growers from Koolunga Hoyleton and Nabawa receiving high marks in sword and Nabawa varieties. Seed recommendations include Pedler Koolunga Ranee Carmichael's Eclipse Sword Mogul and others.
R Destree of Sacred Heart College made four for 13 and top-scored in the final of Student's Grade, bringing him into the limelight of state cricket. At 17, born at Gladstone and living on Seaview Road in Kirkcaldy, he has studied at Sacred Heart College for six years and posted his highest score in the final against Brothers College.
A quirky collection of rhymes features a fisher named Fisher pulled into a fissure by a hooked grin, a chemist who drops a match and loses teeth, a Perth youth born on his birthday who marries and dies on his wedding day, and Trail racing a snail that wins by licking salt from its tall.
The passage notes that the late Chief Justice, son of Rev. James Way, and the late Rev. Joseph Hancock were lifelong friends. It mentions Rev. Thomas Piper and Rev. William Richards, both Bible Christian ministers, as figures who helped populate the legal bench with future brilliant jurists.
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