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Newspaper
Burrowa News
Location
Burrowa, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 12, 1930
Page
4
In a 1930 sale Wydin Bedroom Suites advertises 11 Guiners for a trolley of beds and wardrobes. The 64/16/60 Wardrobe is offered with a 5 shillings 10 pence price. Bee Grane Chairs priced at 12 shillings 4 pence each. Carpele Ruge Mats and other design oriented reductions promote a vivid range of colours.
Town Clerk CW Kenny reports the unemployment relief grant will be fully extended by week’s end. He seeks authority for annual reminders on eradication of anxious plants and for January adverts. He proposes rescheduling the next meeting to December 16 due to Christmas week attendance issues.
Health inspector L G O Mara presents fortnight ending December note includes water readings and repairs to steaming plant piping brickwork. Reports Patterson's Curse and thistles outbreak in streets due to rain and recommends five men for eradication around December 16. Notes park trees choked by grass and no stock impounded in Borrowa Pound in November. Borrown News telephone numbers listed.
The message suggests a chain where advertising ties to continued business activity. It notes that when one party ceases advertising or paying, actions such as buying, selling, making, and earning may halt, implying advertising sustains economic engagement.
The Burrowa crop competition of 1930 in Me A A Gorham won with a prize block of Waratah. The event highlighted persistent effort to stimulate interest in modern cultural methods and crop improvement.
The report notes heavy rain and humidity reducing wheat crops in the Booroon district and southern highlands. A 0 percent rise in wheat area is recorded, but yields are depressed by pests and adverse weather. Local harvest averages project about Wir bags nationwide with cautious optimism in some districts.
A special Berrews Council meeting elected Alderman P M Ryan as Mayor for the next 19 months. The vote on mayoral terms set an advertising allowance at £26, with a contested amendment to £20. Balloting for deputy mayor produced open voting. Southwell won after debates on committee appointments and a push to empower all aldermen with financial oversight.
An unclear clipping mentions belllooting fight and sale at Dimmock's Pharmacy with a terse note on hair gloss products.
A scrambled OCR review describes a Jungle film with title variants and sensational scenes. It mentions a volcano sequence, charging lion ambushes, a fearless young woman shooting a charging leopard, and a plot around theft and danger. The prose imitates pulpy adventure wording.
The store advertises a wide range of items including shoe trees coat hangers stocking rings and novelties along with popular perfumes powders and palettes awaiting selection.
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