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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 07, 1941
Page
3
Trade notice promoting a wide selection of radios with full stocks priced from £11 9s 6d and adios from 79s 6d. Electric and battery models offered with inspection invited.
The Georgetown district council met January 20 1941 with Drs J A Lyons OLP as chairman and others present. Minutes were read and confirmed. Discussions covered Threadgold road Narridy drainage flooding damages at various wards, a £10 donation to the Greek Appeal, auditors report, ratepayers meeting for February 15 at Narridy, gutter clearances, paysheets totaling £2 12 11 for main roads £11 9 7 for main district roads and £82 5 6 for district accounts, and a special meeting January 28 to consider extensive floor damage. A letter of sympathy for drowning victims on Gulnare Narridy road and H G Thomas of Gulnare was approved. Damages across wards amounted to hundreds of pounds with notices to Highways Dept for bridges and temporary crossings and a grant request of £250 for Koolunga Yacka road, plus expedited fencing material orders for flooded areas.
A collection of 1891 to 1911 notes recount cricket scores at Huddleston Port Pirie Gladstone Caltowie and Laura matches, a rifle club trophy win by M N Page, a Requiem Service for Queen Victoria, and a nomination request for Alfred Catt to stand for Parliament in Stanley district.
A local advertisement promises rapid delivery of medicines by return mail. It highlights pharmacists with years of dispenser experience ready to fill doctor’s prescriptions accurately. Call or write to P O Box 84, telephone 67 for immediate attention.
A large railway employes gathering at the Memorial Hall in Gladstone discussed railway rules and regulations. Adelaide representatives Drumming, Huddlestone, and Thomson spoke as grievances were aired, with a unanimous resolution demanding stricter enforcement of working rules and action if penalties were imposed.
The district mourns the death of J C Thomas of Guinare born 1877 son of the late A Thomas, survived by wife Mrs Thomas and three sons Gordon Allan and Colin, with a daughter Lorna deceased. Burial at Yacka cemetery conducted by Rev G G Evans. Also reports on weather floods rainfall, local sports carnival preparations for February 15, Air Force duties of Tom King, rifle shooting results, drill, and residents on leave with seaside holidays disrupted by floods.
A fragment lists individuals including Don Stewart Bradock Knapp Stewart Duncan Duffy Smith Mighail and Dunstone Carpenter Hale Set FE H Smith. The text appears as a partial crew or committee roster with initials and surnames only.
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