16 Mar 1948
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Newspaper
Coffs Harbour Advocate
Location
Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 16, 1948
Page
1
Mr H W Eastwood the special fruit inspector in Murwillumbah says Squirter disease in bananas will shortly be gazetted under the Plant Diseases Act and regulations will require dipping bananas in Shirlan mixture to control the disease.
Coffs Harbour Surf Club marks its Silver Jubilee with an Anniversary Dinner at the School of Arts on Thursday evening. Attendance is by invitation and will include club members the Shire President and other local officials. The Surf Life Saving Association of Australia hopes to send a high executive officer. President Adrian Curlewis apologized due to private commitments.
Reginald A. Cordell faced fines for offensive behaviour and indecent language at a dance at Bonville Reserve Hall on January 9. He was ordered to pay £2 plus costs for offensive behaviour and £4 plus costs for indecent language, with a £20 bond to be of good behaviour for a year. Sgt. Smith noted drinking but not drunkenness. counsel said the defendant was ashamed.
University of Wisconsin scientists report iodised casein boosts milk production in four dairy cows over eight weeks with gains up to four percent. But heart rate rises and weight loss occur, making the method unsafe. the compound is experimental, not on the market, and not recommended.
A well dressed man in Medford waved a sign about lost pants outside a cleaning shop for three hours. In Woolooware Bay two amateur fishermen in a small boat were towed 300 yards by a foot grey nurse shark they had just hooked. Ron Smith and Les Schafer of Sans Souci handled the shark, bringing it home as proof. A Milk Marketing Board summary reports Britain’s national herd at 2,782,000 cows and heifers in milk and in calf, up from 2,172,000 in 1914.
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