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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 26, 1922
Page
1
The notice outlines registration requirements for all shops in the district, class and exemption rules based on principal business, handling of non exempt goods, suspension options, and half holidays for exempted shop employees. It also covers mixed shops, subdivision rules, and alterations to closing times on public holidays, with youth work-hour limits.
The record lists monthly stock sales at Gladstone and a series of railway schedules and connections. It includes names of local firms, offices hours, and secretaria details, plus passenger and mixed train departures from Gladstone to Adelaide Blyth Verowie and other destinations with Sunday exceptions noted.
Public notices outline daily post and telegram office hours from 4 am to 6 pm, with morning and afternoon sessions and closures on Sundays and holidays. It lists city routes, service windows, and increased postal rates for newspapers, books, magazines, telegrams, and parcel services across Australia with specifics on timings and penalties for late or mislaid notes.
An irregular OCR fragment lists multiple local entities such as Grafts Doe Ltd, Lewin Ltd, G. Pigher & Bone, and J. Gale. It mentions a Police Station, Gladstone Hotel and Railway Station, Town Clerk, National Bank, and several street or building references with numbers and years like 1916 and 1008-55. The text is severely garbled with unclear dates and misplaced names.
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