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Newspaper
Bombala Times
Location
Bombala, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 23, 1938
Page
2
A cheerful holiday message celebrates Christmas as a time for simple pleasures and shared joy. The piece riffs on varied scenes from racing and fishing to quiet home comfort, wishing readers merry celebrations no matter how they spend the day.
The Bombala Baby Health Centre notes 1 new enrolment and 42 attendees last month. It stresses that older generations resist new feeding methods, warns of gastro enteritis risks, and urges strict sterilisation and regular feeding to maintain the drop in infant death rates achieved by health centre practices.
A Penrith audience hears a nervous neighbor wake her husband to fix a problem while RS and SLLA. official J Black relates a joke about Jacky an aeroplane who enjoyed two rides with the pilot’s stunts claiming the first and last were particularly plurry.
A. W. Garnock of Bukalong Station Bombala born 12 December 1858 is hailed as the town’s Grand Old Man. He funded the caretaker cottage at Bombala Showground supported the District Hospital and Exhibition Society and plans to press for a Duchess of Kent Park visit during Canberra talks.
The article surveys disputes over who originated golf, sketches rival views including a Scotsman tale, and quotes satirical lines from Thomas Jay and a Frenchman describing the game as a bundle of sticks and a wandering ball. It frames golf as a puzzling, evolving pursuit with playful definitions.
Two magistrates on the Welsh bench allegedly presided over each other’s cases in rotation to save time. Magistrate A fined Magistrate B 10 shillings then swapped to the dock for his own issue. Magistrate B then moved to the bench and fined the other defendant 20 shillings, decrying the offence as all too common.
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