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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 28, 1937
Page
2
The Jamestown Institute Committee announces a new library policy requiring all subscribers to return books by June 1, 1937. Books must be marked off before new selections are made, says President John Souter.
Mortgagee appointed auction to sell dismantled Chaff Mills at Georgetown with land lots over three parcels. Items include engines, chaffcutters, saws, wheels, rails, iron, sleepers, wood, tanks, doors, fittings, and tools. Land terms require 10 percent deposit and balance on 30 June. cash sale for equipment.
An auction advertises 270 wethers and ewes with lambs, hoggets, and Merinos, plus 18 weaners of Tam Berk cross pigs, several motor vehicles including 1925 Chevrolet and 1927 Dodge tours, and farm gear. Conditions at sale require pre-arranged terms with McDougall Jamestown. Enquiries to Inglis Jamestown.
The notice lists temporary light testing times at multiple venues in Adelaide area. Jamestown Institute on Tuesday 2:30 to 8, Caltoie Hotel Wednesday June 9 9 to 11, Spalding Hotel Thursday June 10 10 to 1, A Yacka Hotel Thursday June 10 2:30 to 8. These entries indicate an organized test period across sites.
It Evensons andpam Georgetown Baptist church anniversary with Rev F Milton Lee LTh President NDBA. Monday 8 pm Lab Tic Meeting and Sipper. Special lining at all services. All welcome.
Friday May 28 1937 reports injuries in a Gladstone football match Ted Leese dislocated shoulder and Les Yates teeth damaged. Sheridan now at Tailem Bend. Hewitt family leave Gladstone after 19 years with credit to church. Farewells at the Methodist Church and Gladstone Croquet Club set for June 2 with lamp gift to Hewitt family. Coursing Club to hold annual meeting June 2 with 16 do slake race and judge Ferme.
GI Bros Circus drew a large crowd in Gladstone on Friday with acts including the inn in a stockyard sketch and Miss Pearl on the trapeze. Sholto and Jack Gill impressed with a life line ride and rough riding as clowns and educated ponies completed the program. EMter, Smith & Co and Dr will hold a monthly market next Tuesday offering 200 sheep cattle pies and sundries.
The Gladstone Club hosts its first Gon Chanownship meeting this Saturday June 5 with seven events on the programme. Nominations close Tuesday at 1 p.m. with Club Secretary W McKnight. Dick Destree, famed in Adelaide contests, is a likely contender. as a boy he trained near the Gladstone oval.
A Glasstone ward correspondent writes to the paper questioning how rate payer money is spent. He cites Fifth Street as a disgrace with broken bottles papers and rubbish on both sides and urges cleaner tidier streets for Wake up Gladstone ratepayers and fighters for clean streets.
The article records a Gladstone Golf Club match against Wirrabara with multiple players, scores, and holes noted. It mentions Thipson, Meade, Gillespie, Tranteria, and Tan among others, with various down or up results and preliminary rounds leading to a late afternoon finish.
Coronation day events at Gladstone raised funds through a sequence of collections and dances. Receipts totaled £24 8s 1d with £14 6s in donations and £11 3s 45d spent on expenses. Donations funded cups for convent and high schools. The chairman and secretaries praised the event and thanked contributors for a successful function.
The marriage of Miss Crystal Brow to Horace Clinton was celebrated at a Methodist church. The article details the bridal attire including a satin dress with lace, a silk veil, and pearl accessories, and notes bridesmaids in apple green satin and silver trims with pink carnations.
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