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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 14, 1944
Page
2
The document outlines an annual subscription fee of 100 entities for members with a 10 percent reduction in all hospital fees while a patient. It also mentions a unique subscription for a member's family to the same concession. A founder or member played a role in the hospital’s management.
A W Sandford and Co Adelaide produce report notes seasonal easing in butter production with cooler weather improving cream quality. Blue Valley butter remains steady due to vitamin content and keeping quality. Local bulk butter price is 1/5 58d per Th. Prints and delivery extra. Egg prices show a post holiday surplus cleared for pulping and manufacture with hen eggs 2 shillings, medium 1 shilling 3 pence, duck eggs 1 shilling 3 pence.
Dalgety & Company Limited announces an auction listing with cattle sheep and rams from various owners including 230 workers 250 fat wethers 400 wether lambs and 350 wethers plus cattle horses pigs and sundries. Cattle to be offered at 12 o clock with terms by arrangement.
Dalgety & Company Limited announce a sale on Monday January 24 at Lil Jem Dalgety in Catlee. Items include horses drath workers and illness mares, a farming plant with cattle and milk cows, sheep and lambs. Terms at sale.
Advertisement notes flax chaff for sale with Mas Bull Chai recommended for cows. Ex mill or free on rail at Laura with price per ton and buyer age terms given. single buyer option listed.
Fragmentary OCR notes show Jamestown area church schedules with Epiphany services and various congregations. References include Church of England, Methodist, Presbyterian, Salvation Army, Holiness Meeting, Sunday School, and multiple ministers and locations across Jamestown and surrounding towns.
Readable lines show Salvation Army and church services in Wirrabara Crystal Brook Gladstone and surrounding areas. Schedule includes prayer meetings at 4 30 a m and 11 a m, Sunday schools, Evensong services and Methodist, Anglican, and ILC gatherings led by Rev. W Roehrs Rev G Grant and others.
Readers extend thanks for fire extinguishing assistance on Fryday at cladsinue and Saturday in Bun daleer area. Many express appreciation for neighbours, relatives, and hospital staff, with mentions of specific names, telegrams, cards, pastries, and floral tributes in recent bereavements.
In loving memory of my dear husband Walter who died January 12 1998. Ever remembered and sadly missed by his wife Alice.
The Areas Express reports a string of residents from Gladstone and surrounding towns on holidays in Adelaide and other spots. Names include Miss Tima Bowers, Mrs S Davin, Mr RB Chays, and families like the McLennans, Lecstie, and Yeomalis. Many are noted as visiting Gladstone, Unley Beach, Torrensville, and Kadina while spending holidays with relatives and colleagues.
Soldiers and families in the district are spending leave on breaks with relatives in Jamestown Laura and Gladstone. Pte Cliff Brown recovers from a severe accident. Pte Halliday returns after months in the Territory. The OShaughnessy family marks a 96th birthday. Miss Flortie Barrett will depart Gladstone for the South East to join her parents.
The report notes a Red Cross shop incident with convener names, a January 2 memorial wall event for a new car, and a January 12 camp welfare council meeting. It also covers a large sawdust dump fire at Wirrabara Saw Mill and a grass fire near Caltowie burning several acres before extinguishment amid cool night winds aiding firefighters.
Mr Norman Webra reports heavy rabbit damage at his Randall Ivor Springs orchard. Nightly attacks have ruined about 210 trees despite efforts to combat them with shooting and other means. Replacement will be delayed by lack of wire netting and ongoing exposure to further losses.
Jamestown councillors on Monday night voted to begin a campaign against thousands of Corella cockatoos damaging local eucalyptus trees by biting bark and twigs. S. J. Dickson will head the shooting party with ammunition supplied by the Corporation. Nearby notes record Caltowie bankers in the war and a government drive to relocate families from cities to country housing, inviting vacancies and details on type, rooms, rent, utilities, and distance to schools.
A list of students awarded qualifying exhibitions subject to proof of age across divisions 1 11 A and B. Names include Margaret Kreig Joyce Hollitt Nancy Blieser Meltore Marjorie Clittons Me ree and Hin le Bayle among others from Bundaleer North George town White Gladstone and Narridy. Congratulations are extended to all recipients for future success.
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