Gladstone District Council Meeting Notes 1940
Minutes from the Gladstone District Council meeting held January 5 1940 record apologies reports and motions. Actions include dog fee enforcement promotion of cement slabs at Eudunda Farmers Store pipe installation in High Street and opening the Pound on January 15 1940. Donations for the Limbless Soldiers and farewell committee for departing soldiers discussed. Local Board of Health granted pipe work at Booyoolee Hotel.
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J. G. Deeble
J. R. Potter
G. M. Black
R. Hillam
M. H. Page
W. Nourse
C. Budge
J. F. O'Neill
Dr. Black
Potter
Dr. Potter
Hillam
Eudunda
Cr. Black
Cr. Nourse
High Street
A. R
Cr. Potter
St. John's Ambulance Brigade
Page
Carried
Cr. Page
Dr. Nourse
Board of Health
E. White
Booyoolee Hotel
Gladstone Bowling Club visits Orroroo for matches
Twenty Gladstone bowlers visited Orroroo on Saturday for afternoon and evening games. Afternoon scores show Orroroo 136 to 114 for Gladstone 114 with players Cox Manuel Brown and others. evening results list Builders and other names with varied totals.
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Gladstone
Orroroo
Cox
Manuel
Brown
Northeast
O. C. Forbes
Jarvis
Lyma
McDougall
Ford
Wilkinson
F. Forbes
Keats
Toop
G. Addison
W. Addi
Yeatman
Clarke
Cain
Gladstone Public Pound Reopens Monday at 9 AM
Advertisement notes the Gladstone Public Pound will reopen on Monday next at 9 o clock in the morning.
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Gladstone
Rainfall and harvest notes from Georgetown township
Geographe era weekly report records 1989 rainfall well above average with 2119 points over 102 days and notes on higher registrations nearby. New year showers aid lucerne paddocks while harvest production remains prolific with wheat deliveries increasing. A local accident and Red Cross activities are also mentioned along with hospital treatment for Will Angley.
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Lucerne
Port Pirie
Broughton
Appila
Lex Noonan
Sheffield
Red Cross Circle
Institute
J. A. Lyons
G. D. Inglis
Wheat Harvest Board
Will Angley
Elstern
College Park
Death of Mrs Jessie Thomson 84 Former Clover Hill farmer’s wife
Mrs Jessie Thomson 84 wife of the late William Thomson formerly of Clover Hill died at Joslin on Sunday. She survived by three daughters and one son. Her husband was the first to grow wheat on the Gulnare plains and to take up land under the Strangways Act. Mr Thomson died about 30 years ago. In a separate note, Mrs Ellen Elizabeth Cornwell 50 of Peterborough died after a sudden seizure at Gladstone railway station. She was the wife of porter R J Cornwell and was with three grandchildren.
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Joslin
Jessie Thomson
William Thomson
Clover Hill
Thomson
Gulnare Plains
Jessie Cramm
Gladstone
Ellen Elizabeth Cornwell
Peterborough
John Stewart
R. J. Cornwell
Georgetown Amateur Swimming Carnival Set for February 10
The Georgetown and District Amateur Swimming Club announces a carnival at its modern pool on Saturday February 10 with two sessions at 3 and 8 pm. Fifteen events feature. open to affiliated club members. Nominations close February 5 at 6 pm with Hon Sec Mr C A Signet Georgetown for posters and details.
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Georgetown and District Amateur Swimming Club (Incorporated
At & Pam
C. A. Signet
Georgetown
Sporting Notes from Strathalbyn Meet
Racing notes list hurdles winners Too Poo Forester Cav iline and purses Derby King Adelaide Gip sy King. Novice Torcello Harmonise Kashuni Strathalbyn Hdcep Lady Mancilla Marimba s Son Windy Point. Trials Woolecombe Ethel Pennant Lad Welter Hilleric Heroic Chief Alwyne s Pride.
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Too Poo
Forester
Caviline
Derby King
Adelaide
Gipsy King
Torcello
Harmonise
Kashuni
Strathalbyn
Lady Mancilla
Marimba
Windy Point
Woolecombe
Ethel
Pennant Lad
Gladstone Town Council Receives Farewell and Toasts
Entries recount a January 1900 council gathering hosted by Cr. and Mrs. Sampson with toasts to the retiring Town Clerk Budge and Mayor Hancock. Other items note the Great Northern Bicycle Club carnival, a 1930 farewell to L. C. Green, and various local deaths and appointments.
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Gladstone
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Wear Store
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