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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 21, 1944
Page
2
Notice from the District Clerk states that the poundyards at Glidstone have been moved from the corner of High Street and Fourth Street to North Terrace beside the Sheep Saleyards.
An annual subscription of 10/6 grants a 10 percent reduction on all fees for the member at the Hospital. A £1/1 subscription covers the member’s family for the same concession. Members also participate in hospital management. Help the Hospital and yourself with this good investment.
Mr W Boyle, a dentist from Jamestown, will visit Gladstone monthly while on service with the RAAF. He may be consulted at Mr Wurm's Chemist Shop on the fourth Monday of each month from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Advertisement for rolls of admission tickets numbered to 1,000 with prices 6d 1s 1/6 2s 2/6 3s at 5 shillings per roll including tax and postage. Orders accepted by sending postal notes or stamps to any address.
A W Sandford and Co Adelaide produce report notes rains will help pastures but more heavy falls needed. Butter output up slightly with steady demand to quota. Blue Valley brand praised for vitamin content and keeping quality. Prices steady. best utility butter 1/55-8 local sale only. Eggs show further supply increase, with pulping and export packing starting. Board rates unchanged for various egg qualities.
The notice lists multiple churches and pastors with service times in Jamestown Laura Wirrabara Crystal Brook Gladstone and other towns. Rev S T Harper Rev J C Gibson Rev S K Wiseman Rev Chatfield and Rev R V Grant lead services including morning and evening worship Sunday School and Holiness Meetings.
J. E Porter Agent Wirrabara announces appointment as Representative in Wirrabara and District for H. V. McKay Massey Harris Pty Limited Farming Machinery and Implements. Full range of duplicate machinery parts stocked.
Miss Canavan and Miss Burford travel to the City and Adelaide for visits. Local residents including Hewett, Ganley, Allchurch, Yeates, Garnett, Yeates family, and students from Jamestown High School are mentioned with holidays, hospital stays, and leave. Pte Burton in hospital with malaria. Dr. Stewart returns after illness. Robertson and Langley relatives noted. Bank staff changes and numerous wireless and RAAF connections reflect wartime community life.
Intending subscribers to the above are asked to get in touch with the Treasurer, Box 2, Gladstone, as soon as possible, as the fund may be closed at an early date.
A large pumpkin shown in Brooks Bros shop window weighed 76 pounds 11 ounces. Mrs A McKenzie Sen North Parade Jamestown estimated 746 8 ounces, noting it as a fine pumpkin but not naming it.
The Wirrabara Red Cross Circle proposes a sale on July 29 to aid their local Miss Red Cross candidate. If you have second-hand articles to dispose of contact Miss Ida Phyllis, hon. secretary, and by doing so you will assist your local candidate. Goods on commission will be accepted and every article will be gratefully received.
The Jamestown VDC invites all service men and women in the town and district to join Sunday's parade on July 23. The march departs the Drill Hall at 14 30 hours led by the Band, followed by a Thanksgiving service at the Institute with a combined choir directed by HL Medlin and special singing and anthems.
The Gladstone branch of the Red Cross Aids will hold its annual meeting at Memorial Hall tonight at 7 30 with election of officers. Miss M Lines is officer in charge. Also noted, Gladstone poundyards, used for sixty years opposite the Police Station, have been moved to North Terrace near the sheep yards. the old timber structure was weathered and prone to stock escapes.
Jamestown High School students hosted a debate for parents and friends on Friday evening followed by a pasty supper prepared by the girls with help from Domestic Science Instructress Miss Joyce Murray and Mrs. McCarthy. Proceeds funded the girls cloakroom refit. Parents also elected six representatives to the High Council with three more to be chosen by the Corporation and a further three by the District member.
Forty seven nominations have been received for the Patriotic Race and Trotting meeting at Appila. With fine weather expected, Stacey Park should host an excellent day of racing. Several horses from the recent Quorn meeting are entered. A Grand Race Ball will be held at night and a luncheon will be served at the Appila Hotel at 11.30 a.m. Tea will follow in the evening. The tracks are in good order. The meeting takes place on Saturday July 22.
The film of Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat brings Paisano characters to screen with Spencer Tracy Hedy Lamarr and John Garfield in a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptation coming to Jamestown on Saturday July 22. The supporting feature is Pilot No 5 with Franchot Tone Marsha Hunt and Gene Kelly in a Pacific air action drama.
Mr Bryan Bailey, recently discharged from the AIF after El Alamein injuries, opens a shop in Ayr street near the Institute to service wireless sets and electrical repairs, also taking the Malvern Star Cycles agency. He is the son of Mrs M W Bailey of Belalie and a former Jamestown High School pupil.
The Fighting Forces Comforts Fund launches a statewide drive to collect a quarter million books for troops in New Guinea the Northern Territory sailors at sea and air force personnel at remote stations. Any unwanted literature is welcomed and local units will receive donations to meet the goal.
The Jamestown Presbyterian Church hosted the 54th birthday of the P W M A with 80 to 90 attendees including early members. President Mrs R McLennan welcomed State President Mrs Hugh Duncan who spoke on the Union’s aims. Heather Hawkins presented a posy to Mrs Duncan. Decorations and afternoon tea were arranged by local members and a two storey birthday cake was shared.
At Murraytown on July 13 the Minister for Agriculture Mr Jenkins opened the Upper Northern branches conference praising the Bureau system and confirming Adelaide will host the Agricultural Bureau Congress September 19 to 22. Delegates heard papers on education reform sheds and dry area flora while Wheat outlook remained optimistic postwar.
Trene Phyllis Rosser daughter of Mr and Mrs A R Rosser Salisbury and Sapper William John Craker second son of Mr and Mrs George Craker Broken Hill wed at Scotch Church North Terrace Adelaide the Rev J A Blanchard officiated Brides pink jacket suit with pink carnations Attendant Mrs Frank Speed best man Mr Frank Speed Honeymoon planned as the couple left Broken Hill for their honeymoon Horseshoe blessing by Miss Joan Davies.
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