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Newspaper
Coffs Harbour Advocate
Location
Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 11, 1949
Page
1
Jim Conry, manager of the Nambucca Fishermen's Co-op at Macksville, demonstrates fast filleting and skinning. He cleanly plates two boneless mullet fillets in seven knife strokes and shows complete use of waste, with heads skins and guts kept as bait. Fishermen risk lower prices and possible prosecution for undersize catches.
A Coffs Harbour case reports Donald Frederick Clark charged with travelling first class from Coffs Harbour to Sawtell on a second class ticket. He failed to pay excess fare, gave an alias, and defaulted on payment after claiming job at a plywood factory. He was fined £2 plus 10s costs and expenses.
Coffs High School P and C Association faced a heavy workload at Monday’s annual meeting. Secretary Mery Grimmond urged more helpers and broader member involvement to sustain past gains and boost future attendance and discussions.
Tributes were paid to the ladies executive committee of Coffs Harbour School Association at the annual meeting. Principal Lateler praised the group for their splendid help, backed by President Hogbin and Secretary Trimmond and Mr Harry Panning. The funds and social successes of the year were attributed to their efforts. They discussed arrangements for future fundraising and term plans.
Fish are more plentiful at Coffs Harbour with good catches by line fishermen off rocks beaches and in estuaries. Catches centered on bream snapper and whiting led by Gordon Jarrett and Roy Smith with 17 snapper and a heaviest weight of 10 pounds. In a Coffs Amateur Fishing Club competition F S Bailey won with 32.2 points totaling 15 pounds of two snapper. Gordon Jarrett was second with 24.12 points and 11 pounds of two snapper.
The secretary treasurer Mr M Grimond announced the first year closed with a credit of £38 45 5d. Income reached £153 4d while expenditure totalled £114 Iss Id. Membership rose to 25s in 194s with growth to 354 in 1949 anticipated. Major outlays included an address system bell system books curtains and furnishings. The group aims to equip the student reference library with about £250 of books this year.
Advertisement urges readers to call 48 or 179 or contact L Northam or J Reedy for employment or application inquiries. The casual copy sells flexible work options and invites return visits.
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