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Newspaper
Carcoar Chronicle
Location
Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 27, 1943
Page
3
Fragmentary note hints at a person named Ber taking something for fur or fur handling. Mentions age and care given, with unclear details and multiple garbled words. Unable to extract a clear event, date, or actions for a complete summary.
Mrs J Hammond of Biggs visits her father Mr J Carney with Misses Eileen and Myrtle Eight on leave from Sydney. Harold Johnson leaves for Orange for further leave. Mrs W Smith called to Young for ill brother. W Fuller in Condobella district with Ted. Mrs Fuller and infant visit relatives at Orange. Mrs Platt recovering well after tonsil removal. Mr and Mrs R Fuller of Aro Wee expect daughter Elma to visit Utle. Mrs A MecVicar and Isabella on short visit to Orange. Mrs M Eldridge and four children involved in a scare but escaped with minor injuries after a harness incident.
Polling day passed smoothly with voters at the booth run by A M Lynch and R Fuller. One elector, Mr J Nobes, recalled casting his first vote 64 years earlier and said he had voted in every election since.
Dorothy Tangney, Labor Senator for Western Australia, rose from a working-class background to become a leading female figure in Australian politics. She began work at 15 to support a family of nine, funded by a meager weekly wage, and later earned a scholarship at age 12. Tangney studied at convent and Perth University of Arts, becoming a teacher at 18. Her father’s low wage left little for essentials, yet she and her siblings pursued education and opportunities amid ongoing hardship. Her brothers served in the Air Force and the AIF, highlighting a family steeped in service.
Martin Ludwig Pet sin, 58, a German resident, was found dead in the Boorowa Street laundry hangman style. Single, lived alone, had not been seen since last Monday when a neighbour checked on him and discovered the body hanging by a doubled rope from a beam. Dr Le Fevre attended.
Last week three shigarers worked on the Crumboogie property of Mr G D Bassett near Dubbo. Their combined age was 206 years with two over 70 still active while one retired due to manpower shortages. All three have long experience using the blades.
A Lithgow resident trained a white Alsatian to deliver mail. The dog stood at the late letter box by the railway with its paw on the box and held several letters in its mouth while the master coached it to insert the letters.
A Dubbo hotel bar scene ends with a customer, suddenly elated by a £100 lottery return, inviting nearby patrons to join him in a drink. The spontaneous shout prompts strangers and friends to toast the unexpected windfall of the well known local man.
Representatives of Councils and PP Boards will meet at Bathurst on September to discuss employing prisoners of war to eradicate noxious weeds briars and rabbit damage on roadways. The Turon Shire Clerk advised calling a conference of all shires amid road clearing work and funding shortages. The motion to invite joint shire and municipal councils and war agricultural committees was adopted for the Bathurst conference on Saturday September 18.
Winchcombe Carson Ltd reports rabbit skins at Wednesday Sydney sale totaling 71 tons with prices largely up about 1d per lb. Range notes from Winters to 1634 per Tb and pelts varying through multiple grades. An inquest into a death in Gustrow is noted, with details to follow.
The Australian Comforts Fund NSW Division solicits support for 80 000 Christmas hampers for servicemen and women in forward areas. Hampers include plum pudding cake nuts fruit Neslie’s cream chocolate gum tobacco shaving cream and writing supplies. Contributions to Local Capital Fund or NSW Division at Town Mall Sydney urged, with leading counties already pledging.
Supplies of rabbit skins fell to 41 tons catalogued while values fluctuated across grades with prices from 1d to 197d per lb. Best hare skins fetched 2s to 41s per dozen, while hides calfskins and yearlings secured recent appraisals. Winchcombe Carson Ltd reported a firm market for sheepskins in Sydney with varied wool and pelt values across categories.
Dubbo Municipal Council backs a united Front in pushing for a University College in the Central West with Orange and Dubbo rivaling. A circular urged Lyndhurst Shire Council to cooperate and regional authorities to subscribe to a concerted push to decentralise university facilities for postwar development and to deter local youth from drifting to cities.
Woodstock notices list Driver Joe Kerr spending leave with wife and family on Belmore street. Colin Mill retires to Wollongong after visiting Colin's parents. Mr. WN Maybury transported by ambulance to District Hospital during the week. Another patient, Mr. A Rel 1, remains unnamed.
The Hospitals Benefits Association will meet at Orange for its half year review covering 23 public hospitals from Coolah to Nyugan. It reports higher membership and revenue, with seven months yielding £21,237 distributed to hospitals, up from £14,65 earlier, helped by about 300 agents reducing door to door costs. The central Orange office handles records, payments, and contact for about 50,000 members and dependents with 300 agents overseeing contributions.
The Blayney Methodist Church foundation year is celebrated with a district centenary event led by Rev. Methodist Hall, visiting the district on September 11. The CWA holds its monthly meeting on Saturday at 3 pm, with the date shown as April 92 in the text.
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