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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 31, 1942
Page
1
Names of volunteers living in or near Jamestown and surrounding areas are being gathered for military service with the 28 ALF and RAAF. Readers are asked to supply corrections or complete unfamiliar initials to ensure an accurate roster.
Hotel advertises two permanent guest vacancies offering excellent accommodation and a wide selection of wines and spirits from all top brands.
Jamestown CWA held its seventh annual meeting for July 1941 42 with Mrs M W Bailey presiding. Reports praise branch work wartime fundraising community service and the Camouflage Net Making School as 176 nets sent to headquarters and 202 roped nets completed. Officers retired and new officers elected including Mrs C Brogan as president and Mrs E Daly presenting a silver tribute to Mrs Bailey.
A garbled rainfall ledger for Gladstone lists yearly totals from 1896 to 1989 with multiple inconsistencies and stray characters. The fragment preserves numerous year value pairs such as 1896 11.68 and 1989 18.91, interspersed with broken dates and filler text.
The Gladstone District lists numerous men offering service for King and Country in the current conflict. The roll includes Allison, Holmes, Appleton, Hackworth, Abell, Hughes, Blesing, Hocking, Botting, Bradock, Knapp, Brown Lawrie, Leesue, Magner, Bath, Cottle, Maddigan, Nelson, Crawford, Osman, Caulfield, Durick, Smith, Evans, Stewart, Plavel, Page, Durick, and many others with several noted as volunteers while a few were rejected.
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