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Newspaper
Burrowa News
Location
Burrowa, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 24, 1937
Page
8
Forwarding stock and property lists by application W M Dwyer and Company act as general commission agents and auctioneers Stock and store stock and horses listed Trucks ordered and stock consigned to any destination for sale or dispatch via their services.
The Burrowa District Hospital Board held its final monthly meeting on December 16. Directors Patrons Mason Boulding Thompson Brown Weaver Tredinnick Southwell attended with D. Bobbin absent. Discussions covered hospital additions to the Nurses' Home, tender approval to J Learmont & Co, and cost overruns. A protest to Works Department over unapproved works was supported. The board approved funds and noted income and expenditures for the month, plus admissions and discharges for November. A planned monster Hospital Appeal was proposed for early next year.
The board warns a new infestation may arise in Rye Park Burrows and nearby areas as depots at Boorowa and Young close. Landholders face action for failing to report grasshoppers with poison bran stock ready for immediate deployment and depots planned at suitable sites.
A letter from D N Cudmore of Warrangong Koora watha praises the board staff for handling grasshoppers and supplying bran. He notes saving eighty percent of feed, counts 400 to 500 bags from the depot and 100 from Cowra, plus five thousand gallons of kerosene. He warns heavy fines may ease next year if poison bran bait is resisted, and Director Beveridge notes some landholders delay action and doubt poison bait efficacy.
Paul Cheyne argues at the Canberra Summer School that Australia can absorb large output, citing 70 000 annual motor sales and 10 000 ton rayon demand. He notes Australian factories could support Morris and Austin volumes, urges unity of field and factory to ensure national security and stable prosperity.
Mrs. Caroline Gordon died at her son Arthur Gordon’s residence in Langley Kenya Road Boorowa after four months of illness. Born January 10 1854 in Bankstown she lived in Albury district before her husband Chas G Gordon died in 1912 and they moved to Kangiara Ballyran later Langley. Her funeral was held in Albury Cemetery with Rev J T Auburn officiating and many wreaths.
The ceremony at St Mark's Church Darling Point featured cream gowns and flowers with gardenia decor. Miss Margaret Throsby wed John Kerr of Tne with 90 guests at Eliza beth Bay House. The reception followed and the couple departed for New Zealand before settling at Springbank Yass.
The Young P.P. Board debated whether mules and donkeys qualify as travelling stock under the Act as twenty or thirty animals from a travelling show roamed roads and reserves. Director Caldwell noted the issue of travel permits and non compliance prosecutions, but the board could not settle the point, concluding simply that a mule is a mule and a donkey a donkey.
The Matron Misa Kay Parker and Sister Macdonald hired an inboard boat and spinner loaned by Dr. English on the Murrumbidgee River last weekend. They caught 28 cod, a feat that surprised them and earned congratulations. At Flemington Stock Sales on December 20, Country Selling Company sold cross bred suckers to A. A. Gorham of Boorowa for 24/5.
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