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Newspaper
Burra Record
Location
Burra, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 28, 1931
Page
2
A crowded ad column lists groceries and hardware with prices and specials as shopfronts in a small town. Items include flour, drinks, ice cream, plums, and tools, plus notices for boarding children and housing, with contact requests and local store names.
A probate sale offers items from a late estate including dining tables cedar furniture, a wardrobe, chests of drawers, wash stands, mirrors, chairs, rocking chairs, kitchen chairs, safes, clocks, linens, crockery, glassware, a kitchen table, a dresser, a fountain, cutlery, silver, and a hand driven phaeton. The listing notes numerous sundries and an itemized but incomplete inventory.
The Burra Record reports a reshuffle in Burra schools with new staff at High School set for February 2, including Miss Naylor in Domestic Arts and Miss Dunsten and O C Prion as new teachers. It notes former students Doreen Oborn and Madge Pearce gaining positions at other schools and mentions a St Mary’s Hall social, a sprint win by Miss Roby, and ancient coins sent from Kooringa. also covers a police court case in Redruth and a Geelong visit by Rodney Woollacott.
Milton J Tiddy Cash Draper and Dithier Aberdeen advertises savings on ladies wear and children's aprons with varied prices and sale items. Also notes being agent for Chermings Sports Repot and calls for scavenging tenders for the Local Board of Health due noon Saturday January, with details from the Town Clerk.
The Corporation of the Town of Burra declares a general rate of two shillings and the penny in the pound on all ratable property for 1931. Rates due by 80 June 1931 with a 10 percent fine for late payment. Town Clerk Davey signs.
Obituary notices describe the death of Mrs Twist after illness and Mr William Rule of Aberdeen passing at Burra Hospital. Mrs Twist, wife of Twist, left four children and was a member of St Mary's Church and local tennis and croquet clubs. Mr Rule, son of the late Mr and Mrs Jes Rule, Aberdeen, worked as a blacksmith and supported the Aberdeen Football Club and AO Forresters, with services held at Koaringa and a Lodge tribute by Hv. B. J. Davey.
A large crowd attended a District Office meeting on 19th to discuss fire facilities. Chairman T. J. Wedding introduced Mears, Warnes, and Hawker from the local fire-fighting group. Warnes urged preemptive burning of dangerous roads and better coordination to control fires, proposing fire breaks and low-cost pumps to deliver water to tanks, while Hawker stressed fire control logistics and the need for transportable water tanks.
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