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Newspaper
Burra Record
Location
Burra, South Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 08, 1930
Page
2
A large sale listing discounts on shirts dresses and hosiery with prices and quantities. Includes men’s women’s and children’s footwear and sheets towels and fabrics. Promotes a showroom event on October 17 with a wide range of garments and sporting goods.
A lengthy sale list presents numerous ewes and wethers from Bungaree Leighton and adjacent properties. Items include hundreds of ewes 12 to 68 years old, many hand shorn, with lambs and store stock. buyers urged to arrange terms with auctioneers before sale to secure prime Bungaree blood stock and mixed lots in good condition.
Entries close Thursday October for Birds Waal Cattle Dogs Horves Pigs Sheep and School Class. Entries close Wednesday 15 October for Art Photography Fruit Imple ments Needlework Produce Vegetables Flowers. Shipfare Show Apoing District Council meeting held September 27 1930 declared a general rate of fifteen pence in the pound on the assessment of the district. All ratepayers must pay the amount according to assessment to the District Clerk at the Council Chamber Emu Downs.
Tenders must be in the hands of the Clerk of Kooringa by November 22, 1930 for the Overseer of Works Ranger post. Tenders require permanent district residency and no tender guarantee of acceptance. By Order Grama 8 Dow District Clerk.
A jumble of advertisements mentions trains, phone numbers, hotels, suppliers, and shops. Entries reference harness repairs, confections, vegetables, warehousing, and school pies. Church anniversary services are listed with times and a memorial notice follows.
Public notice announces the Royal Commission will visit Burrastan in the early days. Persons wishing to give evidence should communicate with the lander signed, stating the nature of the evidence desired to be tendered.
The Barry Jroquet Clubs held their annual meeting on October 4 at Clu Flonse. Inducted officers for the coming season include President Mes Tiver Hoo See, Treasurer Mrs Robinson, Captain Mrs Finehs Vies Captain Mrs Rosman, Committee Mesdowes Sendland and Dewey, and air officers. Membership dues reduced from 30s to 25. Board opens October 25 with gymkhana. Community notes list September donations from Mra T-Sandlind, Mie MI Radford, and others. Royal Commissioner invites complaints and suggestions, directing submissions to Mr Knesbone at Railway Station.
The New Fordson is praised for a 6 percent power rise and an improved cooling system suited to Australian conditions. Enhanced washer capacity, heavier frost wheels, and high tension magneto ignition with impulse starter boost winter starts. Made in Ireland, the Fordson is seen as a model factory line supporting Irish workers and British goods.
Burra Basketball Association changes the schedule for the Baseball Window at Burra Institute to Monday October 13 with October 16 as the targeted date. A dance and supper follow the match with an Old and Now Dance Programme announced.
Ad ad for Laubman and Pank sight testing and associated events at various Adelaide venues. Dates include Friday Oct 1, Saturday Nov 1, and Monday Nov 3 with hotel displays and a charity style evening at Willetoe Hall. Proceeds to North Boohorowie Football Club with prizes and music.
Four surviving Prior family members from James and Jen Prior unite after five years. The elders, Me 5 Pride of Copparhouse aged 09, Me 2 Pride of Copparhouse, Me 6 Mia, Me 4 Mia, and Me 7 Me 5, trace origins to Barra and Corin. James and Jen’s son arrived from Cor in the early fifties and worked at Tams Hotel where Burrs Hospital now stands amid changes along Burr's leading district.
Last week brought hot conditions and uneven rainfall with timely showers on Sunday night delivering a heavy rain that saved crops in Burra and surrounding districts. Reported totals include Balding 70, Leighton 120, Burra 99, Copperhouse 70, Gum Crash 70, Spalding 141, Clare 83, Hallett 66, Mt Bryan area 234 across multiple sites, Oakleigh 160, Moran 150, Mount Mary 89, and others. Children’s Hacking Gough and Weads' Great Peppermint Cure also noted.
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