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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 04, 1942
Page
2
Goldsborough Mort & Co Limited offer Klingner's Main Street premises stock for sale as he leaves the district. The list includes a full shop, electric motor and oxy welding gear, various machines, tooling, belting, piping, iron stock, nails, screws, and a trailer with sheep hurdles and wheels.
Growers must order through one agent only and sign requisition forms personally. Sacks issued only when toning details appear, including grower surname, Christian name, wheat licence number, licensed area, acreage sown, and identity card number. By Order, Percy Hutton, Australian Wheat Board, August 31, 1942.
Local notices announce Jamestown District Poet al Match and a Barn Dance in aid of Red Cross Junior Baby Hall at Jamestown Oval and Bundaleer Hall on September 5 and 9. Socials feature music, supper, and a Giants 1/8 Ladies 17. Several Gladstone residents plan holidays in Adelaide and Victor Harbor as others attend Australia Day festivities and patriotic programs.
Listings show a four roomed house for parade needs in Jamestown with contact C L Hewett and a request for a boy to help on a poultry farm linked to Theo Klingner. A missing gent’s overcoat presumed taken between Balaklava and Glassstone on August 15 is sought for return. Also notices to buy two 14 hand Poules and to maintain quiet in saddle and harness with J Rundle listed.
FOR SALE, TO SET Advertisements under this heading are charged at the rate of 1/ for 12 words minimum 12 words additional words 1d each Double rates for booking DAY O8D Black Orpington Chicks $4 100 White Leghorns £ 3 100 Stud Cockerel Settings Theo Kling jer Jamestown Phone 46 FOR SALE-6it Massey Binder 6ft Sun Binder Wit AL Type Harvester 2 Rit HL Type Harvesters 7 furrow Plough 10t H5 7 1 Meader All good buying E Daly Jamestown FOR SALE-2 Gools Quality Mill Cows fn full wofi C J L... rders Phone 122 Gladstone
An advertisement from Jamestown promotes Rewsley’s Country Typewriter Repair Service and lists lodging options at ARIADNE Residential on Irvine Street. The notice also mentions McNaughton’s Guest Home, a Review Office venue, and a contact phone number 72.
Mrs Max Osman journeys to New South Wales where her husband Sgt Signaler M Osman is stationed. Community notes record military families, local sales, club meetings, Red Cross events, and a ball to aid Xmas hampers for service personnel across the district.
The article notes a years long drop in average wool bale weight across the Commonwealth, with 1940-41 figures of 298 lb nationally and 285 lb in Victoria, the lowest among mainland states. It highlights a Wool Board ad urging growers to press heavier bales to conserve woolpacks amid supply difficulties.
A social evening in Bun daleer School honored Corp H Lawrie of the RAAF on Monday August 31. The chairman M Crouin praised Lawrie for community service and long service with the Agricultural Bureau while supporters from RS SrL Cheer Up Club and Ladies of the R.S.L. offered good wishes and gifts.
The Australian Wheat Board advertises required details for corn sack requisitions through local agents. It notes licence numbers from the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Board, grower or share-tarmer IDs, area, acreage sown, identity card, ration book, and current bales of cornsacks held.
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