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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 21, 1927
Page
2
The issue features a GAGH GONUS of £1/10 per £100 for conversions into the New Loan payable next December. The New Loan carries 6 percent annual interest with issue price £96/10. Investors may choose 5, 10, or 15 year terms with expected average returns at £6/11/10, £5/8/11, and £5/8 respectively. The bonus is exempt from Commonwealth and State income taxes.
Auction notes list include 4 fat cattle and 6 fat cattle with fat cattle, 8 steer on tracks, 15 fat stock, 8 milking cows. Pigs show 17 buckers with zero weeks old. Full profit expected from offerings and weights.
A notice announces a meeting of the Volunteer Fire Brigade at the designated venue and time for a demonstration and orderly rest period. The text references Viterecked, foray, and OCRAQRE 24h with a 7 20 time marker, indicating an event draft.
The Premier's Motor Control Bill in the Legislative Assembly faces strong protest from Liberal supporters. Critics say it would create a state monopoly on transport, favoring public servants and trade unions, undermining competition, and risking higher railway rates. Country Liberals vow to block the measure.
Mr Tom Capelli announces a new music class in Gladstone as eight shops near completion near semplation and all are let. A Friday concert at the Gladstone Institute supports the Blind. Lectures and meetings planned for Monday include a talk by the Bishop of Willochra and a volunteer fire brigade formation.
At Scout Hall a decision was made to hold the annual strawberry fete and dance on Tuesday Wor. &th to aid equipment for the Hoy Scout and Girl Guide movement. Other notes mention Croquet Club visits, sheep sales at Crystal Brook, and local notices on advertising, elections, and a printer’s press capacity.
Richard Talmadge stars in The Fighting Demon a safe and vault expert in a South American setting. A big job, gang tension, and comic by play lead to a fight sequence with a South American champion in Los Alvia. The Gladstone Institute screening includes romance and strong performances from a choreographed cast.
October weather remains dry across the west, delaying sowing and reducing yields. September rainfall was light, crops on porous soils suffer, with Maitland and nearby areas showing some good wheat fields yet overall supply of last year’s wheat dwindling. Dredging and jetty work continue while port activity remains quiet and unemployment rises. A Canadian engineer calls the jetty project one of the strongest he has seen.
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