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Newspaper
Burrowa News
Location
Burrowa, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 14, 1937
Page
2
Notice warns all persons trespassing on Nilgari after a date will be prosecuted and a reward offered for information leading to conviction in a sheep theft case involving Nilgari peddocka.
Wool report from Goldsbrough Mort and Company Sydney notes little local activity except scoured skin wool and some lant sale pass ins. London sale moderate with crossbred wool selling well. other grades weak or withdrawn. Australia clears for June. Sydney sale June 7 to 10 focusing on crutchings and lambs wool. 1936/27 season strong for growers with high wool cheque around £62,000,000. Yorkshire absorbs most wool. France Germany and U S import rising. Japan buys heavily but irregularly.
The article outlines selecting plants to suit Moorish Spanish or Eastern homes, praising Cypressus Sempervirens Stricta and other conifers, Ficus Hillii, and Junipers for upright, durable forms. It advises planting spacing, soil needs, and notes bedding pansies offer blue, purple, and yellow colors for massed designs. It urges timely planting for a brilliant future display.
Send 10 6 to Shepherds the 100 years old firm and receive carriage Free seven trees selected from Apple Almond Apricot Grape Fruit Lemon Mandarin Nectarines Pooch Pear Plum Prune Japanese Plum Orange Persimmon Quince Regular price Citrus 2 per tree deciduous at least 1/4 carriage extra Fewer than seven not supplied under this offer additional available at rate T for 10 6 Choose variation from catalogue or any Het High quality as for full prices Rail prepaid to railway town unless post requested
The Sydney wool market shows quiet local activity with some passed in enquiries. Buyers seek long topmaking lots. shortages raise difficulty finding suitable wool though autumn shorn clips look bright if staple length remains good and vegetable matter is kept low. London market reports satisfy with firm Bradford tops and strong home trade demand, while final Sydney sales run May 9 to 10 and may push growers to earlier shearing if catalogues satisfy buyers.
Tweed River stockowners through the P P Union urged the Department of Agriculture to investigate a cure for three day sickness. Chief Veterinary Surgeon Max Henry says no treatment proves faster recovery and even drenching offers no clear benefit. Bleeding shows no proven results and movement of affected cattle is risky. brief exercise may help during some illness stages.
P. L. C. Shepherd and Son Ltd operates as a farm and garden seeds supplier since 1827. The postal address is Boll 36083, G.P.O. Sydney with telegrams directed to SHEPHERD, Sydney.
Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Ltd notes May reports show demand favoring croanshred over merino wool with several merino lots withdrawn. Antwerps futures steady while New York area supply gluts persist. Japan remains 200000 bales short. Synthetic fibers fail to win Oriental buyers as Coronation preparations spread Empire loyalty. Local note: Ralph Walton opens new jewellery shop in Mareden Street Boorowa.
May trade report from Sydney auctions shows strong demand for better rabbit skins with higher grades selling 2d to 2d per lb higher. Second quality and damaged lots declined, with various classes and damaged skins listed from 24d to 64d per piece or dozen, reflecting mixed gains and losses across categories.
Mias Violet Skuthorpe, who doubled for Helen Twelvetrees in Thoroughbred, mourns her pet pony The Squatter after it fell 100 feet into a pit near Henley Park. The champion buckjumper reportedly went down the pit while the animal was tethered, was hauled out, and died.
A U S A Accident Prevention Committee study, citing Dr. L L Thurstone and others, finds higher speeds impair foreground vision and widen hazards on roads. At 60 mph drivers focus far ahead, risking missed dangers. the eye’s focal distance shifts with speed and may cause accidents despite good driving.
A Romanian second-hand shop owner in Shanghai was convicted of assaulting a woman and fined 2 shillings 6 pence. The woman's husband offered five times the fine, asking if payment would allow further assaults, prompting the court to consider the request.
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