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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 26, 1930
Page
3
Big allowance off price of a New Tyre offered for a Skiddy Slippery Worn Tyre. When fitting new tyres to your car fit tyres with a second long life when retreaded by us. Inspection Service Fitting Advice Free. Trade in worn Tyres and get a large portion of a New Tyre Free.
The annual Gladstone Primary School concert at Institute Hall drew a large, appreciative crowd. Infants performed rhythms and games led by Phillip Garner and Ted Creber, with acts from Kathleen Gomer and others. Certificates went to Audrey Crafter, Donald Stewart, and more as head teacher F E Chick and staff received praise.
The list shows new Justices of the Peace J G Dacble and W S Bennett of Gladstone, Geo Kirk of Jamestown, and W S Cordon of Belalie North. Rev A E Page and family from Jamestown are spending Xmas week at Stromness Mansions Glenelg as Miss Queenie Reynolds enters Balaklava Hospital.
A letter from the Commissioner of Public Works Adelaide informs Mr J A Lyons that restrictions on water use will be extended to the Beetaloo and Bundleer districts. Gladstone Georgetown and Gulnate rely on Beetaloo reservoir, now nearly empty at 82 million gallons vs 800 million. Partial restrictions are being tested to avoid harsher measures.
Racing items list entries and horses for Port Adelaide Friday meeting including Hurdies and Welter events with horses such as Amant Kefalin Alfred the Great and Cevantes Tatiara Kefalin plus Port Cup with Mary Spa and Temptation.
A stream of brief jokes and aphorisms on life love and society from a late era. pithy quips touch on luck marriage money and human behavior, featuring humorous lines about cats bears and mirrors and a playful cryptic note on a rigid economy.
Forty years ago the Gladstone Public School pupils staged a Friday break-up entertainment. The cricket match results show Jamestown 43 and Gladstone 197 in a clash with players listed by name, including Keen, Turner, Boucaut, Cotton, Gordon, Ogilvie, Gage, Haslam, and others.
Jamestown High School held its annual speech night at Institute Hall drawing a large audience. Principal N. Ireland announced a prizeless program featuring a cantata Red Riding Hood staged by students with Mrs. Haskard’s orchestra.
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