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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 22, 1937
Page
4
In Georgetown on October 13 a Social Dance Club held a no-IP Ball reportedly in memory of a figure linked to Remember 29th last. The fragment notes a Wednesday event and cites Lusvay as a related reference.
Damp weather kept some dancers away but the hall enjoyed a fine attendance with about fifty cars in the streets. Mrs Nanturrow decorated the hall while Carnell's provided supper and Jack Kelly and Crawford ran the MC duties. Euchre night at St Marys Fete raised funds and attracted sixty players with prizes supplied by Carmody andwn. Blyth Show yielded top placings for Lang and Lehmann in cattle classes with 1300 sheep shipped from Gol Gol NSW.
Poor turnout due to weather and other attractions as Capt H T Harslett wins the day sweepstake and tops the rifle with 42 45 87. Results include Harslett 93 lines OT 6 and scores for BG OG BZ Usman M S Coe Batten R W Morrin Flavel Ta with various totals listed.
From Out the Past notes a Gladstone Rifle Club event won by C H Lines and a B Grade premiership ball for Gladstone Football Club. It also recalls a 1907 promotion at Wallaroo Gaol, cricket scores for Gladstone versus Georgetown, and a Tariff Bill meeting led by Mayor Knight. A shipwreck near Port Phillip Heads caused thirty five deaths.
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