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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 05, 1933
Page
4
The committee sets monthly meetings on the first Monday at 7 30 p m from April to September and at 8 p m from October to March. Every person is urged to become a subscriber as the institute serves the public good and deserves support.
A family health notice promotes Morse’s Indian Root Pills as a safe home remedy for biliousness indigestion constipation and minor ailments. It claims thousands endorse the pills and urges use to avoid doctors, with publishing notes from Jamestown weekly.
An autumn show at the Gladstone Institute organized by the Ornamental Grounds Committee drew a large crowd of residents and visitors. Exhibits featured dahlias and chrysanthemums with high-quality fancy work, judged by Miss C. A. Weckert and Miss Roberts. The Mayor Mr. F C Grubbi opened the event, praising the committee and noting water restrictions had eased. A hall dance in the evening, held by Pirlean's Orchestra, added to the success with gross receipts around £14 and show ratings of £8 plus a donation from Mrs. J S Paddon.
City officials approve finance paysheet and contracts. The council accepts a fencing removal tender, plans a Soldiers Memorial plot in Gladstone garden, and allocates funds for cross street coin drums. Deputation from USL seeks memorial cross and grass border with flag staff and machine gun in the new garden.
The Appila farm of G. Wurst has 700 tons of succulent fodder ensiled from wheat oats barley grass and wild herbage flooded flat. Stacks are used to feed cattle and horses with good colour flavour and ample feed for the dairy herd and market cattle.
Acting Mayor informs council of Foreman Vowels illness and sympathy letter moves. State Bank exemption from overdue rates debated as Dr Daly protests fairness. Paysheet £19 19 2 approved. Overseer updates on stone carting and chippings delay. Sign at McCarthy corner praised. sign to be installed soon.
Crystal Brook pigeon club sets north south races with eighteen official events. A gorade team names T O Louc hlin as captain and F Anders as vice captain. Central Tennis Club plans May ball to award trophies from Eastern tournaments. In Crystal Brook Magistrates Court Gordon Potter, 22, Crystal Brook, laborer, charged with obtaining a ration order by false pretences. he claimed £7 earned since October though £11 16s was earned. fined £1 and £1 court fees or seven days imprisonment.
A May 1893 report notes a meeting in Gladstone to form a Literary Society with Rev C Mugford as president and Davey and Stephenson as vice presidents. A subsequent meeting created The Gladstone Athletic Club with C Budge as president and M Newton as secretary and treasurer. The Boo goalie Trophy event saw E Coe and Edmunds among top scorers.
Fifty years ago several banks increased overdraft rates to ten percent while some older lenders still charge nine percent. Wheat is valued at five shillings and six pence per bushel today.
A jumble of dialogue shows a family and neighbors in a casual urban moment. A teacher student exchange, misheard essays, and a couple discuss furnished rooms and hire purchase while a car signals a turn. A police officer interrupts a roadside moment.
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