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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 05, 1934
Page
2
A series of handicap races with stakes amounts and weights for events including two miles, six furlongs, five furlongs, and one and a quarter miles. Nomination and acceptance fees are listed for each race, with rules of racing and totalizator rules noted as adhered to.
Auctioneers require prospective bidders to arrange terms with the auctioneers before the sale. The notice indicates a 40 ton hay lot under the Overland Whippet Motor Cap heading and seeks clients to contact prior to bidding.
A brief inventory note lists sundries such as 40 bags of Maiting barley and a butter churn in good order.
Commissioner Engineer William Francis Kearns of the Royal Australian Navy receives the MM B E Civil Division for service. Born at Roseworthy fifty five years ago he worked at Hawke & Co Broken Hill Smelters Port Pirie and joined the Navy about thirty years ago. He served on destroyers in the war and later became Commissioned Engineer on HMAS Canberra.
Mr. F A Wehrmann of Jamestown submitted a 14 oz freak egg laid by a Flack Orpington hen on New Year's Day. The egg weighed 2% inches long and was trombone shaped with curved ends, a contrast to the hen’s usual ordinary eggs. This was the only abnormal egg she produced.
Residents left town for the holidays while local activities centered on bowls and tennis. The Laura bowlers visited Gladstone for a practice game and enjoyed their time. New Year began with church bell ringing and business resumed on Tuesday.
Hurdles include Lanscot Wari and Alwynian. highweight hurdles feature Mo'h Wendy Lu and Clearness. welter sees Opera Queen Valleyacre and Demesne. New Years Gift lists Traverse Eastern Star Alozite Cowandilla. hdep Princess Beth Aaika Antonotic. marine hdep Amain Desert Flight Night Opera.
On Saturday the undermentioned team will journey to Peterborough with cars leaving at 1 o'clock sharp. Players listed include B J Moy C Newman K Symonds A Herde G McCarthy K Wilmshurst F Hall J Rosie E Clift W Kerin B Moy M McCarthy and R Trevorrow.
Jamestown swimmers achieved notable success at the Peterborough Swimming Carnival held December 28. W. Glasson won two events for boys, A. Wenham and D. Orchard placed in dive, and H. Orchard led in cups and races. The Jamestown relay teams claimed top spots in junior and senior divisions, with R. O. Dykes and A. Wenham among the team members.
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