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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 11, 1948
Page
2
A public sale of household furniture and effects scheduled for Tuesday June 15 at 1 30 pm. Items include Famed Oak dining and bedroom suites, a Wertheim sewing machine, Rexophone, kitchenware, crockery, glassware, bedding, linens, and a reconditioned two horse tractor. Proceeds benefit the property owner.
Auction catalog lists numerous consignments including ewes fat wethers hoggets and lambs from names such as Reichstein Borgas Zwar Kennedy Wilson and Blesing. September and July shorn dates appear with figures like 120 ewes 200 mixed sex hoggets 100 fat wethers and 73 forward to fat drafts.
Fragmentary OCR text references a health survey and planning actions in Georgetown and Adelaide. It mentions policy aims, attractions, and upcoming events but contains numerous garbled words, unclear names, and missing context. The readable pieces suggest an early stage planning note rather than a completed report.
A colorful theater listing highlights Magnificent Lady with Ginger Rogers and David Niven, plus Notorious and The Spiral Staircase. Other titles include Without Reservation and The Dark Mirren, with Dorothy McGuire and Claudette Colbert among the cast. Contact Gladstone 29 Georgetown for bookings.
A fragmented listing shows several churches and clergy including Georgetown Baptist Rev Hawke Crystal Brook Church of England Rev M C Maris Laura Pluote Bot and ALuth Martins Methodist Roy Stafford Wirrabarration Army Kient Griffin and a meeting at 2 30 pm with Salvation Army references amid scattered names and times.
In the Northern Areas 1921 premiership clash Crystal Brook defeated Jamestown by three points. Final score Crystal Brook 4 goals 14 behinds Jamestown 5 goals 5 behinds. Perry starred with the winning goal from about 60 yards as 1700 fans watched in excitement.
The death of Wilhelm Friedrich Wegner age 67 occurred Sunday at his Gladstone residence Ghulstone after farming years ago and owing 10 memuls. He is survived by a widow a son Ernest and a granddaughter. The remains were interred in Pirie Creek Cemetery on Sunday.
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