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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 18, 1931
Page
3
A collage of quips and proverbs with jokes about money, romance, health, and daily life. It mentions nursing homes, motor shops, and a Crystal Brook Show while sprinkling reflections on New Year resolutions and curiosities about language, anatomy, and architecture.
The Adelaide Show attracts many residents from the Northern Areas this week and sees numerous participants in Cort Adelaide rifle matches. About ten members of the Gladstone Rifle Club compete, with several aiming for prize money.
Murray Lands division of the South Australian Wheat growers' Protection League seeks statewide wheat withholding to force action on the Stott plan. Secretary J. C. Stott will explain the four year program in Melbourne and at a Citizens' League meeting in Alawoona, with central approval pending. The proposal calls for tariff cuts, rail and wharfage relief, lower interest, currency control, a war debt holiday, and emergency measures to raise prices and secure tenure.
The Northern Areas Football Association schedules a Gladstone challenge game between Georgetown and Jamestown to decide the 1931 premiership. The rivals have met three times with Georgetown holding one win and two draws, in a season that promises a thrilling finish with strong lineups and L. Sandery as central umpire.
The Rocky River Cricket Association lists A grade fixtures through harvest with dates in Sept and Oct: Crystal Brook vs Gladstone and Georgetown vs Narridy on Sept 26 and Oct 3. Narridy vs Crystal Brook and Gladstone vs Georgetown on Oct 10 and 17. Georgetown vs Crystal Brook and Gladstone vs Narridy on Oct 24 and 31. Narridy vs Georgetown and Gladstone vs Crystal Brook on Nov 7 and 14. It also notes the B grade delegates held an annual meeting in Georgetown, electing officers and planning a season start for Sept 26 with matches Laura v Gladstone and Gulnare v Crystal Brook.
Major G E Cresswell of the Taxation Department explains the new income tax collection system in Gladstone. He stresses closer ties between taxpayers and the department and says an officer will visit principal localities to explain collection at the source. A reader comment urges fair treatment for farmers, warns against publishing drought relief lists, and advocates wage and salary reforms.
A Saturday evening event in Georgetown raised £14 for the Royal Institution for the Blind. Performers included Linda Wald soprano Dave Howard saxophonist and comedian Philip Yeatman pianist and xylophonist Harold Raymond blind violinist. The hall was full and audience enjoyed comedy sketches and the weekend's hosts Mr and Mrs Rye Treasure and Mr and Mrs E G Smallacombe who also attended a sacred concert in Gladstone. Lena Noonan accompanied Yeatman on piano for his xylophone solos.
The Gladstone Institute Committee met with President L Carthew in the chair. Repairs policy discussed and a £726 deficit on hall accounts noted while library credits remain positive. The Bryant Concert Party raised over £6, and various reports and appointments were approved. A request to liaise with the Chief Secretary over religious service permissions was tabled.
Forty years back in the Areas Express dated Septem ber 11 1891 reports the S A N R L A competition at Port Adelaide Ranges where the Smith Challenge Trophy was won by the Gladstone Company with 548 points. The piece lists top scorers and prize recipients, notes Gladstone’s past and present standings, and mentions resignations from Gladstone Town Council with no official notice.
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