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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 04, 1946
Page
3
Stock Notes Manjimup Market Elder Mith & Co report a monthly sale yarding 315 cattle with 261 sold. Quality varied with prime heavy weight steers and bullocks in demand. fat cattle eased but overall values were satisfactory. Prices range from 3 to 13 pounds for various weights and types of cattle recorded.
Balingup Market at Balingup yarded cattle selling 94 head. About 60 fat Shorthorn cross steers in light to medium weights in fine condition. Mixed dairy cows and springing heifers, calving late, with little inquiry. Fats priced around metropolitan parity. stores and young cattle sold well. Prices: fats £13 10s for light to medium Shorthorn crosses, £12 15s Jersey crosses light, £11 6d to £12 for lighter, heifers £13 6d medium, stores Jersey Shorthorn crosses £6 12s 6d to £7 2s 6d, yearling Shorthorn cross heifers £23 15s.
Royal visitors will tour Bridgetown with local children from Boyup Mayan up Kulikup and Dinninup. Buses will depart school at 10 30 am partly loaded to collect children and all youths must be gathered at the Bridgetown show ground by 11 45 am. A 6d charge per child will help defray costs with donations welcome.
October 5 meeting in Boyup Brook postponed to October 26 at 2.30 pm due to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester visit to Bridge Town. Road Board secretary Mr Connolly notified 21 public boards and will discuss a Community Hotel at Boyup with experts from Manjimup and Perth. Also notes local social updates and resignations.
Attendance so high after circulars promotes H Farrall as president. Meeting declares success and anticipates better seasons. Report notes court reclassification and overhaul of two courts near club house with re-gravelling levelling and rolling before cola addition. Pittelkow assures first class courts. busy bee day set for October 6 with members urged to attend armed with tools to weed back-line.
Mr. Alex Affleck and friends traveled to Perth for his brother Colin's wedding on Saturday. Vassey of Subiaco arrived Monday to spend holidays with his daughter Mrs. Arthur Hansen. E B Shepherdson family motor to Perth via Collie on Saturday morning. D Jones and Les Cornwell visited Busselton over the weekend with no car trouble. A J Richardson guided visitors to Collie Saturday afternoon. Dance in Boyup drew H Ford Mrs A Morris Miss Morris Mr and Mrs Norman Whiting and Mrs Davis on Saturday night.
Mayanup Race Club will hold its annual event on New Year’s Day hoping it will be the last on the old course. Government approval for a new sports ground and race course has been granted, paving the way for the upgrade.
The piece warns that inflation acts as a pickpocket in the economy, urging restraint on spending until production rises to balance money in circulation. It argues price control fails without increased output and advocates investing excess money to protect value through government loans.
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