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Newspaper
Warwick Daily News
Location
Warwick, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 20, 1951
Page
4
Town Hall hosts a grand Jubilee Concert with heavy bookings and advised patrons to reserve tickets. Refunds offered if not needed. Today's highlights include Tanny Morel and the Trimornal and District Gparts event beginning at 7 pm. Grounds luncheon by Greenwood R. Affleck co secretary.
A Urbenville street stall raised funds for the Ambulance Queen contest amid bad weather. Miss Pam Walmsley led events with helpers Miss Normalint and Edith Lee, as crowds enjoyed supper and a hot dog service. A combined ambulance auxiliary meeting finalized ball catering and sports committee members were elected for future events.
A semi conscious William Smith and his wife and infant were trapped in their overturned car for eight hours in heavy rain near Windsor. Unaware two nearby doctors lived within 100 yards they stayed in the vehicle, wrapped in blankets, until morning when Smith recovered.
Auction results show lucerne hay largely unsold with 1808 bags near unsaleable while slight gains occur in high quality bales. Grass and sorghum mostly sold between 15 and 18 shillings per ton or per bushel with several lots passing in. Multiple lots priced from 12 10 to 22 pounds for chaff and prime green hay.
Latest Brisbane market quotes list fruit prices for apples pears and stone fruit from Stanthorpe and Victoria with ranges for Granny Smiths Jonathan and Packham varieties. Vegetables include peas beans cabbage cauliflowers tomatoes lettuce cucumbers celery carrots beetroot chokos sweet potatoes swedes turnips and rhubarb with per unit and per bag or crate figures.
Messrs McDougall and Co report a smaller cattle sale with strong buyer attendance and rising values. Beef cows to £22, bulls £18 5, store cows with calves to £19, heifers to £13 10, paddies £8 12 to £10 15 per head, Jersey heifers £11 to £14 2/6, dairy stock mixed. Next sale Tuesday June 28 with good prospects noted for fat cattle and stores.
The Mt. Colliery Sports Club held a very successful sports day on the recreation ground during the King's Birthday holiday. Visitors from surrounding districts attended, with Warwick City Wheelers cycling club providing a four-event program that drew keen competition despite a few spills. Local MLA Mr. C. Madsen awarded six trophies to winners in boys and girls events, while a ladies committee ran stalls and served lunch and tea.
A Loch Lomond Tennis Club farewell event in the school room honored Hazel Braithwaite before her move to Grafton to study nursing. Despite bad weather, locals danced to accordion tunes by the Graysons. A presentation included a sweet pea posy, an alarm clock, and notes, with remarks from Milward, Russell, Coonan, and Grayson. The crowd sang For She is a Jolly Good Fellow and two balloon dances entertained guests before supper ended the evening.
A meeting at the Girl Guides Hall in Urbenville featured Brownies Deneze Dale and Joyce Stubbings earning second class badges, Ellen Manning and Jean Mulcahy also receiving badges, and three patrol leaders Bantam Mau reen Dale Nightingale Jaine Watson and Daffodil Robin Jones gaining St John Ambulance badges. Captain McLean presented the awards.
Inglewood notes Miss Lowry from the Department of Public Instruction demonstrates new physical training methods at Inglewood State School while district inspector M Portley surveys two town schools. The Convent and State School football teams met. State won 17 to 6 with S Powell scoring all points. Elsewhere a taxi driver rushed a maternity case to Royal North Shore Hospital where Mrs. B. Warner gave birth outside the hospital on the second trip. hospital staff later advised she was sent home on the first visit.
A varied Toowoomba jubilee eisteddfod program featured Scottish and national song and dance and operatic items judged by Miss Breads McCullough of Brisbane. Results include Beth Fraser eight to nine years sword dance 70.2 first award. Yvonne Park and June Fenton top duo 78. Donna Morgan six years and under solo 80.1, Wendy Low 78, 2. Susan Hall and Florence Waghorne seven to nine years 74, 1. Jill Gehrke 73, 2. Marc Glittow eight to nine years 7% , 1. Marie Giltrow 78, 1. Jud y HU 7, 2. Sharon Maclin 82, 1 5. Joan Will batt 81, 2. Donna Morgan Phillips 78, 2. Killarney RSL meeting held in Memorial Hall with president Bert Grayson presiding. memorial list of apologies. minutes quiet. financials £116/2/6 general, £11/8/8 distress. L Sinclair donated £1/1 to Legacy. motion to seek Warwick Diggers Half-Hour Session on third Sunday in August passed.
Directory lists events at Town Hall 8 p.m. Monday to Saturday including a Grand Jubilee Concert by Philharmonic Society. It also details daily and weekly transport and mail routes to Wallangarra, Durranbandi, Killarney, and nearby towns with air, rail, and road services, noting Brisbane connections and mail forwarding to Brisbane.
A fragment lists multiple prize allocations from HUME SYND., c/- H. Hasell, East Brisbane Queensland. It shows ten prizes at various values including £100 and £50, plus numerous numbered prize entries and marks like Princa and Prines. The snippet references dates and a large mixture of prize numbers without complete context.
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