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Newspaper
Burrowa News
Location
Burrowa, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 17, 1938
Page
6
A retriever found a bundle of £60 on a Casino footpath at dawn. The dog carried the money to its owner who reported the find. Later inquiries showed the funds belonged to Mr J Ericha president of the Casino Rugby League.
Winchcombe Carson Ltd Reports on June 14 that Australia will produce about 2 070 000 bales of wool this season the smallest since 1990 31 with carry over into June 40 next. Demand abroad and consumption must improve to lift prices while drought damaged fleeces are likely to be plentiful. Japan's weak buys and stock levels press prices, artificial fibres rising, and sales only in Brisbane until August 20 with no Sydney sale.
A historical overview notes rapid funding growth in key innovations. It cites the telephone expanding from about £2 million to £2 billion, the automobile from £500,000 to about £3 billion, and the motion picture industry drawing massive investments and audiences, crediting J Dunlop's pneumatic tyre as crucial.
A letter from V. Alc. Partridge criticizes excessive regulation and government by officials in New South Wales. He argues Parliament should debate measures before passage and warns rushed legislation threatens democracy and elected representation.
William Lotterton died after slipping from a ladder while cleaning his roof and grabbing a live wire. Local first aid, ambulance, and a doctor failed to revive him after nearly three hours of resuscitation. He leaves a widow and four children. funeral held at Wallendbeen, Canon Done officiating as golf club opening disrupted by the tragedy.
Air travel and communications shrink distant lands as 48 hours separate Australia from London and the Atlantic is crossed between meals. The article notes rapid recent discoveries in laboratories and suggests science may reshape humanity in the next two decades.
Sydney detectives posed as buyers to trap men in Cudal Forbes and nearby towns. Authorities fined Ernest Robert Ryan Thomas Joseph Hegarty Archibald Campbell Leslie Douglas Sande and Richard Hilton Sands for possessing thousands of skins. Fines totaled over £1000 with monthly payment plans. other defendants faced similar penalties for possession of opossum and platypus skins.
Magistrate F Gudgeon dismissed the information against Thomas Gordon McKinney charged with driving under liquor influence after an accident. Evidence of his good character from Allman Shepherd and Stribley supported a finding of proven charges, but no penalty was imposed and no conviction recorded.
Committers of local bodies should favor local printers to keep money in town. The legal newspaper supports local movements and taxes local institutions. Spending locally sustains town business and citizens. outsourcing reduces local spending and weakens the town’s revenue.
At a West Wralong Farmers and Settlers meeting Mr J R Miller urged strict enforcement of the grasshopper destruction act by the Pateures Protection Board. He argued the current efforts were farcical and warned fines may compel compliance. Fellow farmer Mr John Jones supported spraying oats with poison and claimed the crop recovered.
The Australian figure known as Man Woman Eugene Falleni, who lived as Mrs Jean Ford, died at 64 after being struck in Oxford Street Paddington. Falleni, convicted of murdering her first wife in 1920, had lived undercover since release six years ago and sold a Paddington residence for 100 pounds days before death.
At the Goodradighee Shire Council meeting Dr. Grogan predicts bitumen or similar surfacing for main roads within three to four years. He and Chairman Cr. Best emphasize the need to prepare now.
Mr Forsythe voices support for the Saffron Thistle at the District Conference of the FSA. Demondrille Shire Council had opposed a state noxious weed declaration arguing the weed aids graziers and stock feed and helps prevent erosion.
A partial obituary fragment notes someone described as tall and thin and very active. It mentions honesty in business dealings and includes garbled measurements, but the complete identity and context are missing.
A Bourke agent sought 40 000 young ewes as evidence of shifting weather in the inland districts. The Dubbo stock and station firm could not reach any seller willing to part with stock.
Len J Murphy lists services for a super spread ing machine and top-dreming work and invites inquiries from Jugiong Street Boorowa.
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