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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 24, 1940
Page
2
Listing for H.4. Paine & Co. Ltd. agents showing Cornsacks Mettere Windmills Pumps and related items located at Irvine Street. Includes Irvine Street address and firm scope.
All classes of laws repaired set and sharpened by experts with many years experience. Wood workers and metalworkers cutting tools ground and honed in Adelaide. Work done by specialists. Parts can be sent via Review Office James Town or Areas Express Office Gladstone. Prices reasonable.
Circulation lists since November 23 include titles from Forester McKenzie Wodehouse Gibb and Strange. The institute invites suggestions for new books and will procure approved titles. Also advertised is a property sale by Inglis Jamestown with tables chairs piano and utensils.
Mrs J Newton offers by auction her household property south of the showgrounds in certificate 274 147 section 492 hundred of Belalie Victoria. The 6 room stone house sits on a plot of about two roods. Terms include 10 deposit on fall of hammer and possession on completion.
Notices list store closures for Christmas period across James Goodroofie’s Drinks affiliated shops and the Large Town Employers’ Association. Operations pause on Dec 25 and 28 and Jan 4, with selective hours shown for Dec 26 27 31 and Jan 1.
The facility will close from Tuesday December 24 and resume practice on Tuesday January 7.
In a wartime greeting 1940 readers are reminded of Dunkirk and battles in Europe and Africa. The piece praises RAF bravery and imperial resolve, notes Allied aid from the United States, and urges unity and sacrifice for personal freedom and a safer home for all in Australia and beyond. Local notices list readers on leave, travel plans, and holiday visits across Gladstone, Port Lincoln, Adelaide, Jamestown, and nearby towns.
The Shorthorn bullock presented by Mr James Pilkington to the Cheer Up Society and the Jamestown Returned Soldiers League was sold for £21 at the Abattoirs and later donated by buyers Turners Ltd to the Cheer Up Society. The dressed weight was 1,471 pounds.
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