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Newspaper
Burrowa News
Location
Burrowa, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 17, 1939
Page
8
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A garden note guides spring bulb planting and care for flowering varieties such as Myweinthe Freeuins Dalfo and many tulips. It covers bulb preparation, soil, watering, and the appeal of bold color schemes using Lachenalia and related blooms for bright displays and year round interest.
The Methodist Conference debated a uniform half holiday to curb Sunday sport while opposing military training on Sunday. Captain J R B Higman cited penalties for youths observing Sabbath. his son was dropped from a football team for Sunday play. Minister Hawkings stated Saturday holidays have little value for saving leisure time.
Local JAM group plans a charity jam drive for Exye Hospital with four pats of jam per patient. Organizers say fines and literature will be acceptable for participation.
P L C Shepherd and Son Ltd operates as Shepherd in Sydney providing telegram services. This brief notice notes the firm’s name and location for telegraphic correspondence. The item records the business presence without extra detail on services or dates.
Wool buyers in Yorkshire and Continental traders show steady interest as sales proceed. Sydney operations resume on the 20th with expectations for future offerings not as strong though some specialty lines remain. Heavy rainfall boosts prospects across many state districts, with next rounds slated for the 1st and 28th.
Three armed men forced entry to the house of Stanley C French a bookmaker after his return from Harold Park greyhounds They seized his money and escaped through a window into a neighbour s lane The thief fled the scene losing his catch and a pursuit began
The Commonwealth Government awaits a Defence Department study on fuel storage for the section fence programme. A prior Oil Fuels Committee report remains, with recommendations from a Standing Committee of the Principal Supply Officers. The forthcoming report will advise storage scale, location, and government responsibility for military stockpiles and replacements.
A court or tribunal upheld a decision denying reinstatement for Br Cuttie after an inquest by Mie Hospitals Commission. The Moon meeting, held in camera at the hospital, suspended Cuttie following a quarrel with another medical officer. Details of the vote were not revealed. the meeting occurred in a rear hospital room as staff and public were excluded.
A private Foreign Secretary memorandum circulated among Conservative leaders asserts no war in 1938, citing Germany’s finances and hints of a five powers alliance with Britain, supported by Halifax and failing to secure full optimism about Germany. It warns domestic discontent could push Germany toward war within the year.
Officials of the Department of Main Roads outline a plan to build arterial highways totaling 470 tons to boost trade in South Wales. The project follows the department’s thirteenth annual report and anticipates traffic doubling over about twenty years, with rural areas exempt from some widening.
SUGGESTION FROM GRAZIERS SYDNEY Monday: A proposal that the Commonwealth Government should pay a bounty for wool produced to Australia was made by the provident of the N S W Graslan' Association Me Abbott at the snoual conference today. He declared that the wool growing industry was in a parlous nnity and expressed the view that the raziers throughout the country whodld consider the suggestion that the industry be assisted by a bounty crafted at a flat rate of Ida Thy He sid that if this war paid it would mean about £2,250,000 and if the average price of Wool was more than 1/0 tb the bounty would dis appear. The threatening international intr ition and the competition of synthetic three had sariously affected prices of wool, declared the presidents Increases in the ire of synthetic fibres had taken place not only in Germany, Italy and Japan, but was the general in the United States of America. The fibre factories of Germany and Great Britain were ef ferent, modern and up-to-date, and wool rowers should not take the menace of the lore too whelply. They were stron competitors of woul unless trenuoualy fought.
In the country the ideal devine is to increase traffic capacity. The Great Western Highway beyond Parramatta will be widened to allow fast through traffic. Separate garden plots and controlled access points will separate flows and bypasses may be provided at major cross roads.
Sydney Monday report from W. Kelly states the British Air Mission in Australia is likely to recommend two assembly plants for aeroplane production. One facility could be built in Sydney and the other in Melbourne, each costing about £1,000,000.
Lieut-Colonel McArthur King tackled a burglar at his Vaucluse home in Sydney last night. The intruder and defender rolled through rooms as furniture was damaged before the man escaped through an open window.
Two men stole a large consign ment of shoes from a car on a Prague street only to discover the shoes were sample pairs all for the left foot. They were caught and sentenced to sever e terms.
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