Dubbo sheep sale hits record prices at farewell yesterdays
Record prices were achieved at the Dubbo stock market farewell sale with 4000 sheep and 300 cattle yarded. Prime sheep fetched up to £5 14s 10d, and fat cross bred ewes and lambs sold strongly while cattle values dipped. The sale marked the last in the old saleyards ahead of the June opening of the new Dubbo saleyards at Troy Junction built by Taylor Shire Council with part rail link work totaling about £30,000.
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Dubbo
Dubbo Associated Agents
H L. Milling
Prince
Cobar
Pat Meriiog
Milling
Ailing
Troy Junction
Talorager
Todo Railway
Country King
New Zealand approves wool marketing scheme plan
New Zealand has approved proposals from the London Commonwealth Wool Conference for a wool marketing scheme to run after the current Joint Organisation finishes. Minister Holyoake awaits Australia and South Africa decisions and a Havana Charter assent, while Australian growers vote on a compulsory levy to finance the plan.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Holyoake
Australia
South Africa
Commonwealth Governent
Yellow bands appear on emerging wheat seedlings at Trangie
Wheat seedlings at Trangie Agricultural Experiment Station show chlorotic banding along leaves. The condition is a physiological response to temperature, not disease, caused by frost exposure on May 28 with soil surface temps near 80 F. Similar banding occurs in early Australian and Canadian spring wheats, and normally dissipates in 10 to 14 days.
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Trangie
Canada
Vanterpool
Record Average Prices At Sheep Sale
Sydney sales over four days set a record average of 1145/15 for 1008 Merino rams. The 1919 auction yielded an average £98 more than 1250 rams, with total Merino ram sales in 1940 around £117,000 versus £146,812/10 this year. Top price and Australian auction record was £400 guineas for a ram from Messrs Bulls Yardry Ltd Yardry Hoy. Yardry stud sold 27 rams for an average £249/0/.
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Sydney
Australiia
Messrs
Charles Bulls (Yardy) Ltd
Yardry, Hoy
Yardry Stud
Woman shoots daughter in panic over perceived ridicule
Emma Ross Curtis Tom, living in New York, shot four year old Toy Yuk while she slept, wrapped the gun in a towel to avoid waking the child. Police say she feared ridicule of her daughter's oriental appearance. Toy Yuk's fate uncertain. doctors estimate a 50 to 60 percent chance of recovery. Mrs Tom, born to Irish German parents, says she ran away from a boarding home at nineteen and claims she acted to protect her child. She is detained on felonious assault and illegal weapon possession charges.
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New York
Toy Yuk
Emma Ross Curtis Tom
Toy
Tom
Nyngan Girl Killed In Utility Truck Crash
Miss Mary Allen Beatty of Nyngan was killed and Mr Mick McManus of Norrawin Gonpolgon was seriously injured when a utility truck overturned on the Hynegan Sydney road nine miles from Nyngan. The vehicle somersaulted three times before stopping. McManus was admitted to Nyngan District Hospital in serious condition. another passenger, Mia Bevps, was not seriously hurt. Beatty, known as Molly, worked for Permow and Wright and Co.
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Nyngan
Mick McManus
Norrawin
Gonpolgon
Hynegan-Sydney
McManus
Nyngan District
Mia
Miss Beatty
Molly
Permow and Wright and
P M May May Yield On Onus Of Proof Clause
In Canberra the Prime Minister Menzies may concede on the onus of proof clause in the Anti Communist Bill to pass the measure swiftly. His stance shifted from insisting the clause is vital to being noncommittal, hinting at a cabinet compromise to win over a hostile Labor Senate. Labor resistance remains strong, including Mrs Sheehy of Dubbo and J J Notes.
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Canberra
Menzies
Blula
Labor
Labor Party
Japanese generals and admirals to stand trial
Lt General Takuma Nishimura and other senior officers face charges for murders of Allied POWs in Malaya and Borneo, with a first joint murder count against Major Hiroshi Til and Captain Hinagasu Shina for killings of eight Australian soldiers near Tavoy in 1942. The prosecution, led by Major Alex Mackay, alleges orders and executions across the South-West Pacific.
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Nishimura
Parit Sulong
Tessime
TAAF
RAAF
Idore
Dutch New Guinea
Yomawald
North Borneo
Teshima
Tethree
Hiroshi Til
Hinagasu Shina
2/4th
Alex Mackay
Perth
Tisul
Shlia
Wellington Race Club to contest taxation writ
The Wellington Race Club will protest to the Taxation Board of Review about a writ for CLR issued against it by the Taxation Department. The club plans to appear by its solicitor and seek a full investigation of its taxable history as a cheaper way to contest liability. It will notify the Governor General the Prime Minister and the Federal Treasurer and may take the matter to court if needed. The board is asked to probe alleged overpayments to the Taxation Department amounting to more than £1700.
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Wellington
Taxation Board of Review
Taxation Department
G. Wilkins
Meokhell
Mrr. Menales
Faddens
Board of Review
Woman killed by bus in Lewisham identified as Gladys Boyle
A woman was crushed to death under the rear wheels of a double decker bus on Old Canterbury Road Lewisham today. Police identified the deceased from papers in her handbag as Mrs. Gladys Hazel Boyle of Victoria Street Lewisham.
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Sydney
Doubledecker
Old Canterbury Road
Lewisham
Gladys Hazel Boyle
Victoria Street
Field Marshal Smuts Gravely Ill In Johannesburg
An ad bulletin from Johannesburg reports Field Marshal Smuts gravely ill with his condition described as brave yet tiring. Three specialists and his daughter accompany him at his bedside as he shows signs of rallying.
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Field Marshal
Smuts
Johannesburg
Marshall Smuts
Dubbo Weather Update Bright and Clear Conditions
Dubbo experienced bright clear weather yesterday. Temperature readings from the Post Office show a maximum of 68 degrees and a minimum of 42 degrees with noon readings around 42 to 68 described in scattered figures.
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Dubbo
Bam
Swiss Inventor Aims For Machine Dictation By 3 Years
An automatic stenographer devised by Swiss inventor ir. Soin' Dreyhie Grashy eye calls for a machine that records speech to letters of the alphabet. He spoke at Cambridge Massachusetts conferences stating he hopes to perfect such a device within three years.
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New York
Ir. Soin
Cambridge
Massachiusets
Killer's plea granted to die for one murder
Fifty years old Camilo Leyra who murdered both parents with a hammer will die by electric chair on July 2 for the murder of his father only. Leyra’s plea to Judge Samuel Leibowitz sought reversal of the death sentence. The judge left out the customary mercy clause in passing sentence.
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New York
Camilo Leyra
Samuel Leibowitz
Leyra Wiig
U K Search for Bogus Doctor
London Friday reports a United Kingdom wide hunt for a 13 year old self styled doctor on the run from Australia. The Daily Herald says New South Wales police seek him for posing as a medical practitioner and other offences. He worked last year as Doctor Cecil Rutherford Darling at Sofala General Hospital in New South Wales.
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London
Pollcz
British
Erie
Australia
Daily Herald
New South Wales
Cecil Rutherford Darling
Sofala General
Knife Stabbed Man on Dubbo Property
A man stooped to pick up a knife carried in his pocket on a Dubbo property and was stabbed in the chest. Lance Farrelly, a guest of J. Reevex of Boothenba, was taken by ambulance to Dubbo Base Hospital and admitted for treatment. John Charles Edwards, 29, of Pittroy Street, North Dubbo, sustained a suspected elbow fracture after a bicycle fall near his home and was admitted to hospital.
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Dubbo
Lance Farrelly
Mr. J. Reevex
Boothenba
Dubbo Ambulancs
Dubbs
John Charles Edwards
Pittroy Street
North Dubbo
Price Control to Remain on Grocery Lines
The conference kept price control on most groceries with only six of 300 items reviewed. NSW Prices Minister Finnan warned subsidies may be cut when rationing ends, risking price jumps for butter and tea. Substantial price increases were approved for diesel oil aviation petrol and copper, while many grocery lines remained de controlled.
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New South Wales
Finnan
Police chase organized cattle thieves on the North Coast
Sydney detectives pursue a highly organized cattle theft ring amid reports of widespread cattle rustling. A cattleman estimates losses totaling at least £20,000 annually for the past three years.
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Sydney
CLB
World Closer to Peace Truman Says
President Truman told a press conference that the world is closer to peace than at any time in five years. He offered no details, saying he works through the United Nations to prevent war amid a public opinion pool showing Americans skeptical of near-term peace. Sir Alexander Cadogan, British delegate, cautioned no early solution. Forecast notes cloudy cooler Tablelands with showers, then fine elsewhere with scattered frosts and fogs, southeast winds and moderate temperatures.
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Washington
Truman
United Nations
Russia
America
Alexander Cadogan
Moratd
Ste Vad
Bathurst punctures blamed on discarded cream sticks
Country roundup notes Bathurst residents blame punctures on cream sticks strewn in streets. Gulgong plans five timber framed housing commission cottages and urges future housing. Tamworth reports tobacco yield from 400 acres in northern districts about 170 tons, potential value near £55,000 at 6d per lb. Maitland court records Gordon F. Appleton fined for stealing cabbages and cauliflowers worth £5. Sayra club trophy awarded to G Adamson for best trout, with 160,000 fry planned in northern streams. Orange properties set sale at 142/10 per acre, a district record, and Max Smith of Orange sustains jaw injuries in a highway crash. Armidale Civil Aviation surveys planned for the aerodrome. Mrs F Bush of Mendooran returns home with her son.
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Homing Commission
Sunedoo
En Housing Commission
Tamworth
G. Adamson
Orange
Max Smith
Mitchel Highway
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