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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 14, 1918
Page
1
Fragmented OCR list describes volunteers added to a home front effort with names, places, and wartime notes. Many surnames and affiliations are garbled, but mentions Gladstone, Hicks, Hibbard, McKinnon, Norman, Nouma, O’Riley, Quinlan, Sparling, and others. Indicates volunteers accepted after offer, plus deaths noted in camp.
The list records students and staff from HIGH SCHOOL recognized for enlistment and casualties. Names include Oswald Sunman, L. Mitchell, Alfred Parsons, Harry Chay, Ivan Williams, Luke Gatland, J. Naughton, Bert Jolly, J. Harvey, W. Burford, M. Foreman, and many others with marks for killed in action and wounded.
Fragmented old notices list meeting days for Gladstone societies, reading rooms, and committees with times and locations. It also shows railway passenger times from Adelaide to Blyth Terowie Port Pirie and other routes with daily hours and Sundays excepted. The scattered items cover library openings and local government roles.
Public notices describe postal and telegraph services with daily schedules from Adelaide to Jamestown Yallowie and Peterborough. It lists mail times, holiday hours, rates for domestic and foreign parcels, and newspaper forwarding rules with rate details and exceptions.
Fragmented timetable notes several connections between Adelaide and towns including Blyth Brinkworth Mounts Terowia and Petersburg. It mentions cancellations on the midnight train, limited Sunday service, and missing connections causing arrivals at Adelaide to be delayed or altered. The legible items include times such as 7.42 pm 1.25 2.55 pm and 11.25 am with reference to daily operations except Sundays.
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