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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 24, 1933
Page
4
The Library will be open for exchange on Tuesdays Thursdays and Fridays from 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Persons under 18 may join. Subscription is 2 shillings 6 pence per quarter or 10 shillings per annum, allowing 2 books and 2 magazines. Reading time is 14 days for books and 7 days for magazines. Juvenile members must not participate in meetings of business matters.
Croquet at Jamestown on Wednesday afternoon sees tight finishes as Gladstone visits. Final scores: Jamestown 102 to Gladstone 97 with pairs like Mesdames Medlin Williams and Hewett Harris among winners. Opening of shelter shed planned at Gladstone Croquet Club with ceremony by Mrs Growden and visitors welcome.
A jumble of jokes and wry observations on marriage pride and social folly. Bits imagine rash sailors, clever quips about wit and work, and playful asides on couples, religion, and everyday life with a period humor tone.
A large meeting at Brinkworth urges the Federal Government to raise the wheat bounty for Australia’s current crop and to establish a home consumption pool. Speakers include Senator Badman M H R Hawkins and Lyons with Nicholls explaining the plan and urging farmer unity. The group asks Senators Badman and Hawkins to present the resolution to Prime Minister Lyons.
The Gladstone Corporation held a council meeting on Wednesday February 15 1933 with Mayor F C Grubb and eight members present. Correspondence and the finance committee report were read and approved payments listed including general £10 17 3 and government grants £33 1 9. Proposals covered Bennett name honor stall, golf club permission to burn fairway, thanks to Bishop for tree planting suggestion, tar drums procurement, a visit by John Martin Co during Carnival, displaying baby health car visit details, bitumenising Gladstone Street pending inspector visit, plan submission for new garden frontage and upkeep costs, destruction of artichokes on the south town flat.
Agricultural conditions in the district show harvest largely finished with reaping completing slowly. Damp nights aided stacking as grains were carted. rust affected several wheat varieties though northern farms report satisfactory yields with listed weights for Ranee Nabawa Waratah Federation and Free Gallipoli. Patchy showers in week three allowed cultivation of fallowed land, now in good weed-free condition.
Courtesy publication by Mr. Welbourn Narridy and Mr E L Orchard details pig growing results. Jer sey herd feeds on skim milk and barley with five bags of barley per suckling baconer and two gallons milk daily per pig. Recently marketed 21 baconers for 46 pounds 1 shilling 6 pence, all under 20 weeks old.
Gladstone B Grade met Narridy in a nine wicket style draw. Narridy totals 131 with notable scores from Darley 34 and Smart 32 while Jolly and Prior lead bowling for Narridy. For Gladstone Prior and Venning share top bowling while Venning 5/26 anchors Bundaleer results as the day’s other matches list Haobooes and Bundaleer Springs sides.
The text records Berk-Tamworth sows and a Large White Boar used for breeding. In 1932 six sows produced two litters each averaging 18 piglets per year. Sows fed barley meal with skim milk and sold most piglets at seven to eight weeks for 10 each. Strong growth allowed marketing as baconers at 20 weeks.
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