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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 05, 1917
Page
2
A 1917 reflection bids farewell to 1916’s bloodshed and poverty while urging faith in peace. It notes dislocations, survival courage, and the need to bear burdens for victory. Local notices announce Windstone Ornamentals, Cryats Brook sheep sale, Red Cross politics, and Belgian troops stories with funds supporting relief.
The report details Red Cross Society parcels for 1917 including clothing items and linen, notes on Mrs Barr-Smith and knitters, and year totals from four rock clubs such as Red Cross Sock lab and Langue Broken Hill. It also mentions prisoner treatment and Gladstone Public School December quarter work totals and items produced.
The District Council of Alma Plaine met at Dalkey on Saturday December 31 with Presiding Hogan Harkness and Marshwal present. Clark reported weed and tree duties on roadside, unable to repair weighbridge locally, and will inspect via Memiry Hawke & Co. Delegates to Military Conference were Dr Harkness and the Clerk. Next meeting January 27, 1917.
A lively Port Pirie drive raised a substantial sum for the Repatriation Fund. An energetic band of women collected street by street shouting patriotic badges while the public donated in stores and at stations. The total amounted to nearly 4 pounds, with Monars WH and Sato A. Hay as custodians and Mrs Ly A. Bilin as treasurer.
Mount Templeton, Dec. 93. A Christmas program at the local school featured child performances and a dialogue. Parents and friends attended as students received prizes for best work and conduct. Father Christmas distributed prizes while M. Dick and F. Adame ran a drinks stall, ending with Christmas wishes.
A string of serious accidents in Nantawarra over the past week includes a fatality of a five year old child found in a tank and a farm worker kicked in the chest. A returned soldier was severely injured while unharnessing horses and later sent to Adelaide Hospital. A man named Lloyd suffered a leg fracture when a bag of grain fell on him. he was treated at Balaklava hospital.
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