Burra Town Council Seeks Ward Tree Action
Burra Town Council meets at Camel Chambers with full attendance except Cr Jennison. Discussions cover tree planting and guards, gate wiring, water table ramp, and tenders for kerbing near the Electric Light Station. Council endorses tree removal in several wards and approves plant hire and gate safety steps.
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Burra
Camel Chambers
Jenmison
Government House
Adelaide Jetter
Connell
George VI
Elisabeth
Fay
Martin
Jetter
Burea
Black Rock
Fire Brigades Board
Burra Burra
Aberg and Son
Dow
Sean
Aberdeen
Ge Dow
Greow
Gr Dow
Kellaway
Dr Dow
Public Works Committee
Cr Dow
Cr Jeffery
Jennison
Ward
Jeffery
Baltoschke
Worth
Cr Kellaway
Burrs Burra
Plant
Cr Riggs
Riges
Gr Jeffery
Roseworthy College graduates may farm land under Act
At Roseworthy College annual speech day Dr Callaghan announced government finance as part of the Agricultural Graduates Land Settlement Act. Since the last speech day six properties were acquired and five more are under consideration. The 1936 season yielded 22 bushels 8 lbs per acre from 9.2 inches of rainfall, the best in years. The college praised its soil and water conservation program and noted 1,016 visitors at pasture, crops, and livestock field days from June to October, including ten field days in October.
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Roseworthy College
Dr Callaghan
Agricultural Graduates Land Settlement Act
de Callaghan
Wis
The Old Drover and Friday Afternoon Verses
A collection of verses in old frontier style and a town council report fragment. The drover poem evokes cattle drives and stockwhips while Friday Afternoon humor depicts cocky farmers and town life. A council note discusses road upgrades near the Mine Bridge and a planned special meeting for by laws and accounts.
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Giles
Smith and Jones and Brown
Smith
Englishmen See Australia on a Discovery Tour
Three English youths from London reached Ceduna after a trek via Melbourne Kalgoorlie and are determined to travel through Victoria New South Wales and Queensland by any means. They fund their journey, accept work if offered and aim to show home friends the real state of Australia while paying their own way.
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Ceduna
West Coast
M.A
London
Strathnaver
Melbourne
Western Australia
Australis
Kalgoorlie
Victoria
New South Wales
Queensland
Shanld
Outsize Cheese at East Griqualand Cooperative Dairy Show
Under the Department of Agriculture initiative, a giant circular cheese was produced in East Griqualand for the Johannesburg dairy show. Cheeses in 300 to 600 gallon vats required a custom 14 gauge steel mould and three steel girds, weighing over 7000 lbs, split in two halves for handling. A 20 000 Ths pressure double press unit and crane supported curing, turning, and rail forwarding.
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Department of Agriculture
South Africs
Johannesburg
Commonwealth Savings Tank Post Books Disposes Money
A Commonwealth Savings notice urges travelers to carry only a passbook for security and ease. It highlights that money can be transferred to any point and withdrawn or deposited at over 4,000 bank branches and agencies without cost. The message promotes convenience and safety over carrying large sums.
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Commonwealth Savings Tank
Two Young Europeans Challenge White Australia Policy in Darwin
In Darwin’s Ghins town two youths adopted by non white foster families reveal identity shifts. Henry Tee, raised by a Chinese family, speaks Centanese and Englich imperfectly, plans to wed a Chinese girl and perhaps move to China. Peter Nakeetachiba, raised by Japanese relatives, speaks multiple languages, completed senior certificate, once worked in a Cairns store, later pearling near Darwin, and changed his surname after marriage.
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Darwin
Ghinstown
Northern Territory
Henry Tee
Lee
China
Peter Nakeetachiba
Cairns
Tan
Eft
Thursday Island
Nightcap remedies to ward off illness this season
The article suggests warm by night options to prevent colds and coughs during wet autumn winds. It recommends lemon drinks with oatmeal water, barley water with orange or lemon juice, and peppermint water as soothing nightcaps to aid sleep and ward off illness.
Around the House Advice on Various Topica
Advice column offers cleaning tips for dark frocks marked with powder using dry sugar in water, suggests sugar for flavoring meats especially veal, and explains restoring rusty golf sticks with kerosene benzine and castor oil. It also recommends brushing kitchen paintwork with raw linseed oil to remove grease and prevent repainting.
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Isha
Tyre
Burra Town
Jeffary
Cr Worth
Op Jeffery
Batts
de Worth
Gr Kellaway
Gil
Woods
Piefe
FORD
THE
Texas Company
R. C. Lott Kooringa
the Texas Company (Asia
Australia
Travel Service
Commonwealth Savings Bank Ofustralia
Commonwealth
Fred M. Pearce
Kooringa
Forgan
Austerlasia
J. & R. Forgan Ltd
Crystal Brook
Port Pirie
Morgan's, Monumental Masons
C. J. Pearce & Son
Lton Palmer & Preston Ltd
Currie ST. Adelaide
Queensand ‘Cotton Board
Armetics
Morgan
America
Seceas
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