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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 19, 1943
Page
2
The collector will be in Gladstone at the Town Clerk's Office from November 2 to November 25, 1943, to receive water rate payments. Sessions run from 6:20 a.m. to unspecified end times, ratepayers must bring accounts. Engineer-in-Chief Angwin presiding.
Tenders are invited on or before Friday November 26 1943 for the supply of chaff for the year starting January 1 1943 up to 1 ton. R McLennan secretary.
A public meeting will be held in the Corporation Chambers on Friday evening November 26 1943 at 5 am to discuss arrangements for a sports carnival on Pongathon Day Holiday 8st January. Proceeds will support the RSA Club Rooms.
Butter production has fallen this week as warmer weather sets in and pastures dry up. The blue Valley butter remains in strong demand due to high Vitamin content and long keeping quality. Prices stay unchanged for best quality bulk butter at 1/5 5-Sd, with prints and deliveries extra. Eggs: supplies arriving and processing for powder production continues. Grade listings show Ist quality Hen 1/7 and Ist quality Medium 1/5, Duck Eggs 1/5.
A dense schedule of church services across Jamestown Canowie Belt Wirrabara Crystal Brook and other towns. Entries list pastors such as Rev J C Gibson Rev K Wiseman Rev Chatfield and Rev Lambert with service times from morning to evening including Sunday School prayer meetings and special events.
The article honors Australia's fighting men and the public debt of gratitude owed to service members. It notes the war as a People's War with all citizens contributing in varied roles and emphasizes the sacrifices of soldiers, including those returning from battle, and mentions the Jamstown Sub branch of the RSS & AULA devising aid to ease veterans’ reintegration and recovery.
The Old Diggers propose a club room for returning soldiers to gather, yarn, and smoke. Premises will be acquired and furnished, ready for men on return, with an RSS and SILA sub-branch appeal urging readers’ support for the scheme.
The Gladstone unit of the FECF held a fortnighly meeting with good attendance. The usual dance is set for Thursday November 25. Gulnare Rowing Club opens tomorrow with a ceremony by Association president P. S. OShaughnessy. welcome by club president G. K. Davidson and Mrs. Davidson. Armistice Day Poppy Day by the RSL raised £7 12s. Mesdames Brown, Shellat, Nourse, L. ae W. W. Jolly and Miss Lois ash sold badges. Red Cross Shop tallies £16 7s 4d with convener Mrs Thomson and Miss Pearce. There is no branch meeting this Friday due to an auction sale at the Scout Hall. next meeting is December 3.
A light boy in Ayr Street Jamestown Nas often corrected by his Auntie for speaking harshly. After jamming his finger in a door he uttered several corkers, insisting he said nothing. The aunt pressed him, and the boy insisted he was only talking to himself.
A poem describes a rainbow seen across the countryside at dawn with vivid colors over fields and hills. It notes nature’s hand and Balvation Jane as a handsomely colored spectrum across paddocks, urging early rising to greet the day.
The article warns that blowflies cause severe losses in Australian sheep farming, with estimates around two million pounds annually. Experts urge disposal of carcasses to cut breeding grounds, proposing burning, drying, or deep burial, and suggesting future use of old animals for meal, bone meal, or glue.
The James Town Racing Club Ltd met November 12 chaired by Mr P J McCarthy. Audited accounts show bank overdraft 135 pounds 15 shillings 4 pence and net capital 894 pounds 11 shillings 7 pence. Timber and iron sale proceeds reached 373 pounds 1 shilling 2 pence. Committeemen elected were Phil Jones James Pilkington and A P Yeomans. A plan for assisting Returned Soldiers fund discussed and a public meeting to organize support approved. A sports carnival was proposed for January 31 1944 at Show Grounds with proceeds to aid the R S A fund.
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