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Gowrie Shire Gowrie Shire (1879-1913) was immediately north-west of Toowoomba. It was named after the Gowrie pastoral station (1847). The name is thought to have derived from an Aboriginal expression referring to Gowrie Creek or indicating freshwater mussels. The creek's headwaters are in Toowoomba's northern suburbs and it flows westwards through Gowrie Junction to the Oakey Creek. When the Gowrie local government division was formed in 1879 it had an area of 67 sq miles. The 1881 census recorded 2038 residents. Although reduced to 24 sq miles in 1887, the division's population surpassed its original figure by 1901 as Toowoomba expanded beyond its borough-size 6 sq miles. The Gowrie Council's offices were in Toowoomba. Gowrie Junction was in the division's rural part, and was the intersection of the Western and Wallangarra railway lines until 1915 when the more direct Drayton deviation line was opened. In 1913 Gowrie Shire (it had been a shire since 1902) was abolished. Its rural part was added to Jondaryan Shire and the urban part placed in the newly created Town of Newtown (1913-17). Newtown is now an older suburb of Toowoomba. Source: queenslandplaces.com.au/gowrie-shire

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Windy day at the races, so ladies need to keep their fashionable hats in place.

"In the Autumn and Winter of 1915, a body of distinguished and representative Frenchmen visited the United States, their object being to make an investigation of conditions here, having in mind the great need of France in war munitions, the steel in ingot and bar form very much needed for the manufacture of war materials, and the numerous other commodities necessary for prosecution of the war, which had been in progress more than a year." --"A Journey through France in War Time," www.gutenberg.org/files/20464/20464.txt

The commission arrived aboard the new liner Lafayette. Maurice Damour was the head. It had come to the United States to make arrangements for the purchase of American goods to the amont of $ 1.000.000.000 after the war (The Evening herald, November 18, 1915, Page 3). "None of the money, said M. Damour ... will be spent on ammunition. All will be spent for agricultural, industrial and commercial material" (The Liberal democrat, December 03, 1915, Image 8)

The correct names are E. Delasalle-Thiriez, J. Lesueur, L. Trincane and G. Chaffour (The public ledger., December 02, 1915, Image 1 and others). According to The Evening herald, November 18, 1915, Page 3 it's L. Trincano and G. Chauffour.

pennylrichardsca and B-59: thanks for the additional information. We will update the record.