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Newspaper
Burra Record
Location
Burra, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 01, 1931
Page
3
Residents tell the Transport Board at Booborowie that road services save farmers time and money, while railways bear heavy deficits. Witnesses from Booborowie and nearby districts argue for mixed transport, warn of higher costs, lost markets, and potential factory impacts if rail lines close.
The Quality Shoe Store advertises wide ranges of men women and children's shoes with festive prices. Featured items include Black Patent and Brown Tie Shoes 15 shillings 41 pence, Ladies Brown Welted Shoes 14 shillings 2 pence, Cadles Glsoe Kid Shoes 22 shillings 9 pence, winter footwear and elderly person shoes, plus school boots and boys shoes. Phone 190.
An interesting series on Monday night featured 12 major games with rapid Championship round progress. Several players have completed nearly half of the ten birth games, and organizers urge early completion to advance band-capping. Thanks to Mr. Jones for two new undercellently marked boards, valued for size and color. Readouts include Stockley, McWaters, Hockley, Fairchild, Edmonds, Miss Ryan, Seroops, Dane, Davey B, and Dow among others. First games for next Monday listed with Coles, Ryan, McWaters, Potter, Walker, Jase, Stockdey, Fairchild, Phillips, Dow, Pairchild, Miss Ryan.
The Burra Sub- Trinch of the NIPBA reports a fiat meeting held last week and expect to hold the group’s first general meeting soon. The president and committee gifted the showgrounds and inspected the poultry pavilion to suggest alterations to improve the show. Overcrowding in the pavilion should be reduced and birds better viewed. Next meeting aims to explain marketing methods by Association members, a key factor for all times. Members are welcome to enroll. membership benefits are modest as the association is in its infancy and needs growth with member support.
The Australian Country Party argues a 20 percent tariff cut is needed to reduce living costs by lowering salaries and pensions. It claims costs already fell without tariff cuts and warns against promises of further cuts. It notes that customs duties do not determine rents or interest rates and that clothing and many foods were not tariff influenced. J Hume-Cook, secretary, contests bold claims of a 25 percent tariff reduction bringing 20 percent rent relief.
Fragmented text discusses Hindu chronologers, Aryan dispersal from a Gobi inland sea, and mythic flood origins. It contrasts Teutonic and Austral-American branches and mentions a prophesied sixth sense, universal brotherhood, and India’s Dominion Status debates. References to figures and places are scattered and incomplete.
The Australia League advances a season for soya beans, inviting farmers to trial inoculated soybeans, inoculated with special bacteria via the Western Australia Department of Agriculture. The bean, a nitrogen-fixer, promises hay value in wet and dry districts, with wide uses from food to industry and potential for summer and winter feeding. Free seed varieties offered for trial with guidance from Arthur Yates and Company.
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