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Newspaper
Warwick Daily News
Location
Warwick, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 06, 1951
Page
2
The Usual Monthly Meeting will be held on Wednesday June 6 at 8 pm. J G Blanchard Warwick Hospitals Board tenders invited for supply of goods and services for the 12 months ending June 30 1952 including bread meat indigent purchase kitchen ae lifts maintenance of refrigerators cold room boiler firewood groceries fruit vegetables milk butter cheese coke. Tenders close noon Monday June 1 1932.
A fragmented notice outlines a bus route from Redcliffe to Sandgate via Hornthorpe Highway with reduced fares and a regular timetable. It mentions connections to Warwick and notes Sandgate as a stop, reflecting a local transit plan from the period.
A jumble of clipped overseas news sources lists papers such as The Times Daily Telegraph Daily Mail Daily Herald Daily Express and Reuters. It mentions agencies like Associated Press United Press and AP and notes various international outlets and wire services.
The article argues Australia faces a major food production crisis due to population growth and shrinking farm production. It suggests increasing New Australian farm workers for two-year service, improving pay and conditions to retain them, and balancing wages with factory output to stabilize food prices.
Miners at Mount Colliery held an early morning meeting to vote on protesting the general strike action. The motion to take no action passed overwhelmingly after an amendment to protest was defeated. the meeting lasted about five minutes and workers resumed tasks.
Scattered showers mainly on the south and far north coasts with some moderate falls and fine areas elsewhere. Fresh coastal south easterlies and inland east to north east winds. Warrego and Maranoa show cloudy intervals with east to north east winds, Warwick and surrounding areas report June 5 1951 readings with maximum and minimum temperatures and humidity around 53 percent. Red Cross Appeal noted and Warwick Club contributions listed totaling 248.
Senior Sergeant Mairs testified that on April 23 a truck was seen after an accident near Mill Hill. The driver lacked a license and faced a £1 fine plus court costs, plus another £10 fine with witness costs and a month’s imprisonment if unpaid. The man previously worked for Warwick G noperative Dairying Association and later as a laborer.
Local holiday edition highlights include Margate and Redcliffe updates. Readers in Somports EM and Surfers Paradise hear from Jetty Newsgency about sports, weather, and community notices. Burleigh Heads reports on Ras Stuart and ongoing town events.
The Queensland Co operative Marketing Association has purchased the produce merchants operated at Grafton Street by Hackwood and Co. The deal, completed in 1939 and now transitioning, will see the business become a branch of Q.C.M.A. Co. with Len Hackwood as manager. Former owner Henry Dean and the late Mr. Roy and Len Dean had run the business, with M. Jersey and Len Hackwood supervising since 1943. The move aims to stock farm produce and seeds, upgrade storage, and expand premises with a view to serving district requirements. The price paid by the AO for the business remains undisclosed. Len Hackwood has been named district representative for Caltex Oil Co.
The report notes a patient who had recovered enough to leave the iron lung at his parents home in the Hermitage before a Toowoomba Hospital request to return the apparatus was received. Marlton was asked to end privately some proceedings.
More than 500 pupils from Warwick primary and secondary schools will join an Empire Youth celebration at Town Hall next Sunday. The hour long program runs 3 to 4 pm with a procession, two speakers Keith Rayner and Wilf Lees, a pageant by Warwick High School pupils, and musical items. The event coincides with similar state wide ceremonies.
The Clifton branch records show President Campbell presiding at a Jubilee meeting. Notes mention overseas visitors resident in Clifton and a June 7 farewell for Eliza Beth Kenny at Nobby. Probate and hospital visitor duties are reported for May with several ladies named as hostess and hostesses for July.
A list of donations to the Legacy Funeral fund shows contributions from numerous individuals and couples including Valere Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Oge, J. Bourne, Mr. and Mrs. R. Gillespie, T. Swift, and many others. Amounts range from 1 shilling to 19 shillings 8 pence, with several gifts from Emu Vale residents such as Noel Hall Bill Hall Jack Hobbs and others.
A noon ceremony on Monday June 11 will unveil a 3¢ tablet at Slade School in memory of the late J H S Barnes a founding president of the Old Boys Association Mr K Mordon will attend on the War Memorial area as school cadets take part in the procession.
In Sydney Supreme Court two women, Gladys Muriel Hayes and Hazel Hallebone, were granted bail of £1000 each over the murder of boxer William John Lee at the Ziegfeld Cabaret on Kin Street. They must report daily to Crown, refrain from contacting witnesses, and cannot aid the inquest before July 19. Other reports from Brisbane note four polio cases in Health Department data, including residents from Tamworth Toowoomba Cairns and Cloncurry.
A damaged notice states the Lady of Fatima statue will not come to Warwick on Saturday. It mentions transport to Maryboro and Childers and an intended stop at Sim. The text references Fatima and Portugal with unclear dates and sequence of locations.
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