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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 06, 1936
Page
3
Be prepared for summer with Beetine models featuring 34 MP to 7 cubic Sant ood storage capacity. Special fast freezing shelves automatic defrosting temperature controls and glass dishes for crisping salads or defrosting. Electric light in most models porcelain to Kelvina tor stainless station areas. Prices from 47 guineas. AGENT Phone 21 GLADSTONE Box 55.
An old advert announces The Quality Butcher offering best quality meat delivered daily with a motto of civility and attention at all times and inviting customers to try a trial.
The last Euchre series at the Institute Saturday raised over £5 for the B C fete produce stall. Miss M Higgins won the ladies cake dish, while Mr Ken Noonan took the gent's shaving outfit prize. Supper followed. Other notes include the British and Foreign Bible Society meeting at the Baptist Church with lantern lecture, Ron Smallcombe's appendicitis operation, and bank concreting by the Swimming Club.
About 1500 residents gathered at the Parish Hall to bid Mona Pascoe farewell before she departs for a nursing position at the Memorial Hospital in North Adelaide. L. Carthew led tributes and presented a wristwatch, noting her town activities with the Golf Club and Old Scholars Association. The event featured dancing, music by local performers, a limerice contest won by S. W. Thomson and C. Leesue, and supper served by the ladies before the closing Auld Lang Syne.
Georgetown hosts Gladstone on October 28 with Georgetown edging Gladstone by 16 sets to none across men's doubles ladies doubles mixed doubles and singles events. Top results include W McKnight and Bennett winning mixed doubles and Nankivell taking the women's singles over Bennett.
Crystal Brook and Gladstone Rifle Clubs visited Pirie for a match against two Pirie teams. Pirie No. 1 beat Pirie No. 2 by 13 points. R. G. Brown was top scorer and won the champion pin. Team format counted 10 best of 12, two rounds of 10 shots, two at 600 yards. Scores: Port Pirie No. 1 895, Port Pirie No. 2 882, Crystal Brook 822, Gladstone 314. Individual scores listed for AH Harslett, L H Batten, F Spotswood, A Harrin, F C Grubb, R Bone, R Lines, S W Thompson, W J Coe, H Odgers, with final counts for R H Coe 73 and P A Lines 71.
Next Sunday evening teachers at Gladste Methodist Church will join a Covenant Service to begin the new school year. The service will be led by the Rev. E. T. Pryor with the Rev. Percy Eckersly B.A. as preacher.
Gladstone Squad finishes second behind Islington with 445 to 293, in a day of events watched by about 200. The Gladstone team members are G H Kidd leader, R D P Abell, C A Moyses, W C Robinson, and R Pannell, each earning a silver medal for a strong showing. Kidd also won the Junior Individual St John Ambulance trophy with 112 marks and a rose bowl.
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