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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 02, 1928
Page
2
A detailed listing announces a late year auction offering Merino ewes and lambs, forward-to-fat drafts, and fat lambs from Burnside Station, Ginaajono, with additional cattle including fat prime cattle, shorthorns and dairy cows. The sale notes varied ages and weights, stock from North sources, and describes a plan to invite buyers and arrange delivery.
Mixed farming land near Laura offers 54 acres with crops and lucerne, extensive arable areas, water, subdivisions, and homes. Prices per acre and cash terms listed. A house on 10 acres with orchard and water, a 7-room shop and residence including stock, and rental property at 135 pounds yearly. Also houses at Laura with 4 to 7 rooms on varied acreage.
A dense schedule lists public notices across Crystal Brook Port Pirie Gladstone Jamestown Port Augusta Quornorraroo and surrounding venues. Events show dates from November 21 to December 7 with varying start times and closing hours at hotels town halls and institutes.
Invitations for church events printed by Arest Express announce Sunday services at 11 am and 7 pm on 22nd after Trinity with morning prayer evensong and foreign mission deputation. Rev Geddes White to promote World’s Tolerance Sunday. Rev CT Dads listed. public invited.
Arcadia Fair and Strawberry Fete will be held at the Gibbs Stone Transit Hall with a program of rides, booths, and entertainment. The event showcases local vendors, a charity bake sale, and a community stage featuring performances by neighborhood groups.
The fragment lists Trinity College music exams with names like Ada Malan and Kathleen Tula and mentions preparatory dictionaries. It shifts to Federal Elections coverage noting Mr W. Je Billent, Senator John Verran and Sir Edward Laus addressing wheelings. Towns include Nar, Gladstone, Hughesht on, Crystal Brook, Caltowie, Stone Hut, Appia and Tarowie with meeting dates in November.
A vocal elocutionary and instrumental concert was held at the Cladstone Institute Hall on Wednesday October 12 in aid of the Royal Institution for the Blind North Adelaide. Patrons attended well and an excellent programme pleased the audience. Local talent and Raymond the blind violinist performed capably. Proceeds met expectations as the event concluded with a dance to close the proceedings.
Mayoress Mrs. H. T. Hatslett will host a meeting of fairies in Memorial Hall Gladstone on Thursday next at 8 pm to arrange the Poppy Day appeal for November 2 1928.
Display of dressmaking milling ery and art work by Gladstone Branch Port Pirie Technical School will be in Memorial Hall Gladstone on Tuesday November 18 at 2 30 pm A musical programme is arranged and afternoon tea will be provided for one shilling There is no admission charge Proceeds of tea go to the Institute Funds All ladies of the town and district are invited to attend
The Crystal Brook Croquet Club begins its 1528 29 season with a opening day on Saturday November 3 featuring a nymkhana and croquet games led by secretary Mrs A M Robarts.
An advertisement touts Sander's Eucalyptus Extract as a universal remedy for coughs flu infections and throat ailments. It claims superior efficacy proved in court and promotes it for daily antiseptic uses with warnings against imitations. It lists awards and availability at Linstons Pharmacy.
Mogars filer Smith & Co Ltd announce a monthly sale at Gladstone on Tuesday featuring 2178 sheep, AG cattle, 18 BIS and sundries with seaside advertisements.
A strawberry fete will be held at Georgetown Memorial Hall on Saturday November 10 hosted by St. Mary’s RC Church. An array of stalls teas and suppers plus musical items and competitions are planned with Mrs J L Noonan and Miss N Hynes as joint secretaries.
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union local branch held its weekly meeting on Wednesday October 24 with good attendance. Reports and correspondence were discussed and members decided to assist in observing World Temperance Sunday on November 4.
Distinctions awarded to Sandor and Son's Pure Volatile Eucalypts Extract include a First Award at the 1926 Amsterdam International Exhibition, proving purity by Professors Inglis and De Bavay. The Melbourne Supreme Court lauded it as best, and eminent medical authorities and Royal Patronage endorse it as a superior amphimeral preparation for infectious diseases, burns, and other ailments when used as directed.
The Laubman and Pank partners return from a world tour of optical centres. They showcase new sight testing and lens grinding equipment at Te Rundle Street and a Francis Place department with microscopes field glasses and sport optics from Zeiss Watson Rose Bausch Lomb. Expert advice on instrument selection is offered.
The Train tour of a Metro Goldwyn Mayer program visited Adelalia and nearby towns with Anstey and Carrier aboard. Residents toured the coaches while a special screening was shown in the evening. Proceeds from a charity sale supported local worthy causes as the train traveled to Crystal Brook next morning.
The Georgetown gala day drew families for a full program of sports including Juvenile jumping and a bush-eating contest, a ladies croquet win by Mrs Mumford, and a girls event won by Mr J Blow. Improvements to the oval, a new copper kitchen, and a painted grandstand roof were noted amid a well attended dance and a £29 takings total.
Mr L A 4 is in city spending ten days. Miss Rhephard of Adelaide spends noon holiday with relatives at Gladstone. Miss Raith Winkler of Adelaide spends holiday with friends at Gladstone. Mr 5 Errington, staff member at National Bank of Gladstone, transferred to Agent, Mr W Growden Jun of Gladstone ill but improving. Rev T Geddes White of the Gladstone Circuit spent days at Crystal Brook. Mr White chairman of North Western Die. N B Head, secretary of the Gladstone Football Club, transferred to Terowin.
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