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Newspaper
Burrowa News
Location
Burrowa, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 10, 1939
Page
6
On Sunday the Boorowa first eleven faced a team of other cricketers on the focal oval. Rest of players posted 125 with M O Hara 45 and Styles 28. J Whales took 6/21. Boorowa replied 320 with Littlefield 87 and Carmody 26, Pullen taking 4/46.
The State Marketing Bureau reports widespread potato crop shortfalls with early harvests disappointing and late plantings unlikely to compensate. Yields vary from 0 to 24 tons per acre in areas like Glen Innes and Bbor, while districts such as Orange Batlow and Milthorpe show below average or severely reduced production. Insect pests and drought risk further threaten prospects for seed and table tubers across the state.
Trevor Rowlands aged 9 from Sydenham Road Marrickville saved Ronald Williams aged 9 from Malakoff Street Marrickville after Williams seized a live wire and collapsed. Myles Godden aged 10 also struggled to release him until Rowlands in rubber shoes seized Williams by the coat tail and freed him.
Moon phase notes show Last Quarter and New Moon nearby with First Quarter around the 28 percent illumination marking. The lines indicate phase transitions likely in late March.
On his death bed Mr. Stevens tells his son Hugh to increase the housekeeper Ann Robbins's legacy from 200 pounds to 5000 pounds, noting his illness prevents a will change. After his death the estate is valued at 136,784 pounds and only the 200 pounds was revealed before the will was published.
A historical health ad describes biliousness as a life burden with foul taste, dizziness, and irregular bowels. It claims the body’s sewers clog and bile backs into the blood, raising disease risk. Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills are pitched as the remedy and foe to biliousness.
The Grimsby case reveals verbal instructions by a dying man to divide his estate. Miss Robbins receives £4,800 plus £5,000 for two unmarried sisters as per his son’s account. The decedent, bedridden, reportedly altered nothing in the will made twelve years prior.
Sydney march 1 Mr J T Lang completes a record six years nine months and fifteen days as leader of the State Opposition party He served two terms as Premier and led the State Labor party for seventeen years.
Winchcombe Carson Ltd reports on March 7 that merino wool values since March 1958 show bedrock stability despite international unrest. Prices for average 64's woor fleece on Sydney floor moved from 23d in March 1938 to 22d, with 21d during the September Czechoslovak crisis, then steady. Supplies abroad are ample and top stocks from producing countries remain high, but overseas confidence in commodity prices improves. Wool prices may strengthen if mill demand returns. Australian and New Zealand stocks balance production declines. Sales run in Brisbane to March 16. next Sydney catalogues March 20 and 27.
At the Yass Show last week Sister Fitzgerald tied her entries Silver Flake and Silver Wood for the high jump title at 6 feet 10 inches. Lennie Wilcox rode the two greys as the bar rose to the record height amid applause. Ground records stood at 7 feet 6 inches, surpassing the top effort of the day.
The report notes Hall's 28 foot winning mark with runner up Alex Rees at 24 feet. Rees failed at three attempts at 28 feet before the bar rose to 35 feet and Southwell cleared the top.
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