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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 27, 1932
Page
4
Jamestown Institute announces library hours for exchange and reading rooms. Public Reading Room and Subscribers Room timings, membership options for adults and juveniles, reading limits, and meeting schedule for the Committee. Hall capacity, electric lighting, grand pianos, stage, and scenery available by inquiry.
The Gladstone Agricultural Bureau branch met with C O Bennett presiding. A talk on Seven Years Power Farming by Mr W. Lines highlighted benefits of tractors over horses, noting lower costs, larger daily output, and improved moisture conservation. A demonstration by Mr C A Goddard was planned for June 24 at R B Lines’s property, with a pre-event on June 21 for setup and a night address. A new member, W D Pearce, was proposed, and a committee was formed to discuss a social with the ladies branch.
A female traveler aboard the Hobson’s Bay liner sailing from Adelaide on May 16 to London offered a clever exchange avoidance tactic. She presented £160 in English pennies £3 10 in halfpennies £29 in threepences and sixpences and £4 in florins to the booking clerk, enabling her to save £7 10s in exchange with help from friends.
Rev. L. Peacock of Underfield, NSW, and a friend completed a 2000 mile Darling River journey in a 15ft dinghy from Walgett on the Barwon to Wentworth on the Murray in 26 days. They rode floodwaters, covered up to 60 miles daily despite snags and rocks, and noted good duck hunting and favorable pastoral country. Shell Oil supplied fuel for the 2 hp engine. Peacock had previously run a similar Murray trip from near the river’s source to Mildura.
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