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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 15, 1940
Page
3
Gladstone market organizers Messrs Goldsbrough Mort & Co will hold their monthly sale on Tuesday offering 260 sheep and pigs along with sundries.
Gladstone Red Cross Circle wrapped up a week of festivities with a Friday penny drive in Main Street and evening Bowling Green competitions drawing a large crowd. Saturday featured croquet club supper proceeds for Port Augusta and Gladstone clubs totaling about £2.
Georgetown St Patrick's Day celebrations run Saturday at the Georgetown race course with three horse racing events and a long pedestrian programme. An evening dance will follow at Memorial Hall. All sports and horse events are post entry. Honorary secretary is Mr W J Jolly.
Sporting notes list entries for hurdles trials and steeplechase events at ARC Saturday. Notable horses include Too Poo Belinda Despot Marimba's Son Peaceful Lady Parkmond Glamour Lad Whimsical Lass Regency Regulus Speculation Grantley Lorne Walter Liclair Rawson Drought Saluda Banshee Barunga Prince.
Entries pour in for the 65th annual St Patrick's Day sports to be held Monday March 18 with horse racing trotting cycling and athletics. The Bishop of Port Augusta will open the programme at 12 noon and a ball follows at Institute Hall. Luncheon and afternoon tea will be served by the ladies committee.
The government plans a £2,500,000 expansion of munition manufacturing facilities to meet immediate wartime needs, extending the existing modernization program. The effort follows previous expansion work to boost production capacity for the war.
A Monday afternoon fire on M. Q. Harris property in Gladstone destroyed a stack of weathered hay and wheat worth about £100, along with a trolley and chaff cutter. The cause is unknown. Messrs Francis and Hudson investigate. Harris thanks helpers and accepts donations via R. B. Lines, W. Growden and Harry Dold.
At the Bee taloo branch monthly meeting presided by W W Robinson about 30 members attended. J O Shaughnesay read correspondence noting J B Giddings would receive a membership certificate at the July branch social. Director W J Spafford spoke on soil and water erosion using slides and urged grass planting and trees to curb erosion.
Six Port Augusta rinks visited Gladstone last Saturday to play matches with the local club. Gladstone's afternoon and evening results show GLADSTONE 125 across five pairs games while Port Augusta tallies include 104 in the first set and 138 in later play with multiple players named in each side.
A Building Committee has been appointed for the proposed Gladstone hall. Members include Disney Conneil Institute Committee and Technical Advisers, with preparatory work already under way. The building will soon be the ratepayers property and public input is welcomed via The Secretary Building Committee Box 2 PO Hadstone.
The text notes Australia has converted from importer to exporter of munitions with about 9,000 workers producing weapons. It cites a UK order of £3,000,000 for munitions and ongoing contract work. Australia manufactures anti aircraft guns, armored cars, machine gun carriers, ammunition, explosives, mortars, anti tank guns, aircraft booths, Vickers and Lewis guns and small arms ammunition. Bren guns expected to be mass produced soon.
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