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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 27, 1924
Page
2
Fragmentary notice from Gladstone Institute lists Rev P B Cheasell and topics on temptation and meeting dates at the Methodist Church Sunday next in Lave Nev area. Details are incomplete but indicate a religious gathering and sermon schedule.
A garbled report notes Hayes plans pepto tanks installation and invites optician Mr Vivian Fanll to visit Gladstone regularly. Movers Elder Braith & Co. will hold a monthly market at Gladstone with livestock on offer. Giadatone Institute subscription meeting set for Mi at 8 pm to elect officers. Town Ball and a musical program occurred. attendance limited by votes. Door takings £67 8s. Various volunteers thanked for organizing the event. Separate reports recount a Melbourne fight leading to jail sentences. Primary School term ends Friday with a one week vacation and S A P T Union plans activities in Adelaide.
A Perth cable to the Advertiser reports Bishop Trower urging rapid development of northern Australia with white and colored labor. He calls for aviation expansion and deportation only for students, arguing natives are good workers and that vast lands await proper labor.
Personal health notes report slight improvement for Mr W. Con while Mr Frad Heselip lies critically ill with no hopes of recovery. A J P Koconick of Gladstone Public School hopes to resume teaching duties soon. Bieving of Flowardene, aged 78, dies after a brief illness. longtime district resident and prominent agriculturalist with strong ties to the Laura and Kapnods communities. He served as president of several societies, a longtime judge, and held lodge memberships, leaving a widow and three sons and three daughters-in-law. The obituary chronicles a life spanning Hotlands to Hamilton, Espunda, and ultimately the Laurau district, highlighting public service and community roles.
An oral history recounts the life of a long lived settler in South Australia. Born in the late 1800s near Salington and raised near Clare and Crystal Brook, he worked with Bow man Bros, drove bullock teams, and joined cattle shelter and farming ventures. He witnessed changes in Port Pirie and Crystal Brook, raised a large family of sixteen children, and lived through multiple relocations before settling again at Crystal Brook.
A list of amounts donated or promised since the last report shows numerous individuals contributing to a fund. Totals include £6 from Mr Larimer and £25 9d from Mr Wromten, with several other supporters pledging amounts such as £2 from Mr Hurtle Growden and £1 from multiple backers. The response is strong, and about £92 more is required to reach the target. the committee hopes to finalise the fund in a week or two if additional pledges arrive this week.
The report notes assertions in a Victorian Supreme Court matter about a alleged antiseptic and healing preparation marketed as Gandees Extract. It warns the product may be sold as a genuine remedy yet provides no proven purity or safety assurances and raises questions about its medical efficacy for external use.
Dog owners gather as nominations open for a South African section on Tuesday. District Council nominations occur Saturday. Benalur Wiley is to be welcomed home, with local participants noting the event.
A.B. W. K. Bencock of Oxford has been named to the Chair of Modern History in Adelaide. The notice mentions a 1928 figure of 19,943 people moving from Britain to the United States and a trend of fewer than 40,000 deaths by suicide among U.S. youths aged five to eighteen in recent years.
The Port Adelaide Racing Club held its June meeting with a large field and several winners noted. Epictetus won the Port Adelaide Steeplechase, Ravquart and Rauquart scored in jumping, and Other results included Lord French, Steel Bronze, Bluecoyte, and Earl Haig securing placings. Also mentioned are upcoming meetings at Tattersalls and Quorn with horse and rider pairings listed for various events.
Fragmented OCR notes promise Warren's gifts and prices, weather hints, public notices, and stray facts. Mentions of Dew moon next Wednesday, no court circuit, soap tax, and House of Commons Library volumes appear beside garbled quips about marriages, luck, and domestic life.
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