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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 11, 1931
Page
4
Jamestown Institute updates library hours for public reading and subscribers rooms with limited after hours. Members may join during office hours. adults pay 20 per year and receive four books and two magazines with 14 day book limits. Juvenile members disallow business meetings. secretary invites subscriptions.
A rain muffled Crystal Brook show with 38 entries in horses and a strong display of crafts and schoolwork. Prizes went to Emite, Syd, and Commoation among horses, with notable wins by Sunny Boy and Trixie in harness and a large junior exhibition of tatting, smocking, and art from Merriton to Wandearah.
The ninth annual meeting of the Northern District Councils and Corporations Association was held at Gladstone led by President J A Lyons M P Delegates from many councils attended and discussed hospital maintenance, local government bills, and salary cuts. Officers were elected with Lyons re elected president and committees named. Motions supported taxation relief for road work tractors leash for itinerant traders license payments for traders and opposition to land valuation central board proposals.
An ad extols Woods' Great Peppermint Cure as essential for health especially coughs and colds. It appeals to value of strength over wealth and uses a working horse metaphor to sell the remedy.
Dr. H B Morris Inspector General of Hospitals spoke to a large Gladstone meeting on hospital management and funding. He urged keeping large hospitals, improving efficiency, and warned against cutting essential services while stressing the need for a fair rating system.
Mr. H K Moore moved that fees to the Local Government Association be reduced to one term per annum. The motion was seconded and carried. Mr. Leahy and Mr. P S O Shaughnessy praised the Secretary, Mr BR J Rose, for his valuable work and other delegates echoed similar commendations.
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