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Newspaper
Burra Record
Location
Burra, South Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 01, 1942
Page
2
An auction notice lists livestock at Burra Market on Friday at 2 p.m. with entries from Melton Pastoral Co Ltd. Details include 3,000 ewes aged 18-51, forward orders, 2 year ewes, September and November lots, Merino rams, wethers, and fat prime cattle. Clients should arrange terms with the auctioneers.
Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd auction sale from the Estate of the Dunning Trustees at Cornwall Terrace Burra North on Friday December 11 at 3 o clock. Allotment 190 and 19 on CT Vol 509 Folio 74 include frontage 41 ft and depth 125 ft with rooms outbuildings and vendor's interest in adjoining allotment 180. Full title details from Bedwell Worth Burra solicitors. Deposit on sale day. items include beds chairs wash basin verandah seat and mattress.
The Country Women’s Association will hold a meeting at 8 pm in the New Fest Room. Jean Tennant will preside at 235 Faeyer Street on December 4, 1942, with A. Guomneece Beeting listed as organizer and Finn as secretary.
The Gabbeet Meat Stores Burra and Burp Worth inform customers that on December 14 their stores will switch to strictly cash sales due to current shortages and increased工作 load in maintaining accounts.
A children’s concert is planned at the Hallett Institute on Thursday December 21. Eight performers are listed for the event and the program highlights young musicians.
Burra Redruth Methodist Circuit lists services Sunday next with Redruth services at 11 and 7 pm led by Rev Bartlett. Burra Kooringa Circuit offers services Sunday next at 9 am and 1 pm with Rev Martin assisting at Worlds End location.
A garbled Burra era classified page lists sales ads for verandah seats and canopies, furniture, pumps, and household goods. It advertises bargains on stoves, carpets, and motor car sales with contact points at Sara & Co and Coverdale's Chemists. Lost and found notices offer a brindled greyhound reward, hens for sale, and a Ford vehicle listing.
In loving memory of Will Collins and Janet Collins of Gum Creek who passed away at Burrs on March 1 1926 and December 2 1940. Their grandchildren Maurice, Rass, Liz, Patricia, Helen remember them with enduring affection. Inserted by their family.
A Tuesday notice from December 1st 1645 records the Burrs office on Commercial Street. Ernest Frederick Marston is listed as proprietor with telephone 46 Box 40 in this early publication detail.
Local and General Adelaide records list student results from St Josephs Convent School. Catherine Preise and Maisie Pearce among top marks in Grade IV and Grade V with credits. Kath leen Bonython and Beryl Lomman in Grade VI also credited. Pamela Davis achieves 98 marks in Preparatory.
The Borra Red Cross shop unit 169 hosted a busy Friday afternoon fundraiser raising a notable sum. Ladies A Texnant J McGrath Hegarty Branhan and R Jeffery organized gifts of lakes and towers. Meanwhile a November 12 pigeon theft in Queen St was reported. A Wallace Beery film at the Deal Valles theatre and other cast details are noted with local publicity.
Miss Sothern performs in a high society comedy set apart from rustic film scenery. The plot centers on a rich girl with a heart of gold who keeps stumbling into trouble. The narrative moves quickly through witty twists and fashionable settings, with elaborate wardrobes and a lineup of cartoons and gazettes in the program.
Classified note from the Brush Co. at 16 Flinders Street Adelaide seeks horsehair with high cash prices offered. Readable text indicates demand for tails and manes with immediate purchase options.
Report notes Scotch College Belair and Hoarding and Day School at St Torrens Park in Adelaide receiving Defence requisition. Describes site at Bele about 1009 feet above sea level with new classrooms science labs and workshops plus facilities for games. Boarders to reside January 1943 with a plan for sonication and further details from the headmaster or Savings Bank Buildings King William Street.
Housewives in Addiaide establish a clothing exchange to ease wartime shortages. One shilling forms from Burra Record Office enable people to exchange used garments for adults or children. no money changes hands. Exchanges have operated for about a month with fair distribution and practical value, mirroring English rationing practices.
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