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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 18, 1935
Page
2
January hotel meeting times listed for Gladstone Commercial Hotel CalTOWLE Georgetown Galnare Spalding and Yacka venues. Dates range January 22 to 28 with sessions mostly late morning to evening across multiple locations.
The notice lists committee members and officials for the W. Naismith race meeting including chairman B J May and steward J Morgan. It details roles from starter and handicapper to clerk of scales and medical officers. It also states penalties for handicap races after weight declarations.
All ratepayers who suffered loss in the recent flood are asked to forward in writing a claim to the District Clerk. Include description of property cost and value. Claims must be in the Clerk's hands by January 26. By order.
In response to a ratepayers requisition a meeting is called for Wednesday January 23 1936 at 3 pm in Memorial Hall. Agenda covers licences for visiting traders under Section 20 Hawkers Act of 1934.
The Gladstone Novice district council under the Noxious Insect Act of 1934 orders breaking grasshopper breeding grounds with heavy cultivators and the use of poison and burning if breaking ground is ineffective.
Fragments report residents spending holidays in Gladstone and Jamestown with visits to Melbourne and Sydney. Events include Frank May’s win at an Adelaide athletic meet and Orchard brothers excelling in Roseworthy College swimming. Meeting of Gladstone ratepayers about Hawkers Act licences and flood-affected claims process with £73 5s 3d available.
Special notice informs readers that Miss Phyllis Cook, a ladies hairdresser from Gladstone, will be absent for two weeks and reopen on January 29.
The Lang family thanks Dr Swann Harbison and Jamestown Hospital staff for care of Press now using bone conduction. A demonstration of The Sonotone method will be given during Messrs Landman Pank and Gladstone's northern trip on January 22.
The Sons and Daughters thank friends for sympathy and tributes after the death on January 15 at Jamestown Lylla of Mrs Margaret Stevens wife of W H Kleeman mother of Mrs I R Dicker and grandmother of Avon in her 70th year after a long illness. Special thanks to the Dra Metro and Nursing Staff of Jamestown Hospital. Peace, Perfect Peace.
On Sunday January 20 1935 churches in Gladstone Wirrabara Jamestown Canowie Belt Spalding and Belalie North list service times and clergy for Anglican Methodist Baptist and Presbyterian congregations. Readings include Holy Communion Evensong Morning and Evening Prayer and memorial observances.
Arrangements with W Benbow screen a C G C programme on Monday January 28 at the Gladstone Institute. Wheeler & Woolsey in The Cuckoos four reel The Northern Lights cartoon Dizzy Days a wrestling short College Graphers and a Patho Revue. The O G C invites public support for the annual Continental event.
Handicapper Goudie sets weights for January 26 racing incl Naseem Bierlite Gordon Royal Report Glenette and Little Bier. A humorous stray line follows about a storekeeper and a dog, noting a shopkeeper asks to sell a water bowl while the dog cannot read.
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