Wanted Relieving Maid and Part Time Cook Laundry Help
Classified notice seeks a relieving maid daily or weekly plus a woman for two days of cooking and one day laundry. No details on location or contact provided in readable text.
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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 16, 1948
Page
10
Classified notice seeks a relieving maid daily or weekly plus a woman for two days of cooking and one day laundry. No details on location or contact provided in readable text.
Portatle Electric and Oxy Weld Ing grants a permit to weld on boiler and high pressure vessels for H Cavenagh Garema. Approval covers portable electric welding tasks on specified equipment and complies with safety regulations.
Employment notice offering one day per week work for a cook with good wages and favorable conditions. Applications invited, Albion Hotel.
A 50 pound reward is offered for information leading to conviction of anyone stealing wheat or related materials from Red Bend. Information will be treated as strictly confidential. Also appears: Easter services with holy communion and evensong schedules at Betgerabong and surrounding churches.
Sydney Morning Herald previews a piano recital with a performer praised for brilliant technique and poise. The hall offers a donation‑based entry with program including A Song to Remember and Carnegie Hall excerpts along with other established acts.
The Supreme Court of New South Wales probate jurisdiction publishes notices for the estate of Charles James Lea of Forbes with first accounts filed and a May deadline for claims and objections. A second notice concerns the will of Wilfred Clarence Brooke of Porches with probate sought for executors William Earl Shadwick and Shaw Strickland after fourteen days from publication, with creditors urged to file claims.
A Forbesman reports a lively shift in entertainment as Australian actors gain more opportunities. The Minerva and Old Vic seasons are popular, the Tivoli venue is sold out, and rumours place the Empire Theatre as a future grand opera hub, with Parkes and Forbes driving the momentum.
Scotty Wallace shows a full equipment refresh as racquets undergo stringing and golf clubs receive new shafts and grips, signaling renewed performance potential.
Padre Thorpe will visit Forbes May 4 for a week to promote Anglican youth work in the Bathurst diocese. The initiative includes forming youth clubs, organizing Anglican services, and raising funds for children’s homes and distribution across Wellington Dubbo Canowindra and Orange parishes. A second Anglican Youth Camp is planned at Orange showground in June with Forbes V.A’s attending and Eric Leaney leading the Bathurst group.
Ronald Arthur Stephens Turner a 22-year-old laborer of Gunningbland took strychnine near Parkes after claiming love for a married woman who did not leave her husband. He was hospitalised and later told court he loved the woman and planned to leave the district, with penalties imposed for good behavior and no contact with the woman.
Reports from Bedgerabong describe a week of unsettled weather with warm spells, sleet, rain, and a cold windy spell. Farmers note showers, lightning and thunder, a cold snap, and rain that improved cultivation conditions though wheat trading remains uncertain.
A wartime style cattle and sheep sale at Yesterday's Store featured buyers from Riverina towns like Peak Hill Parkes and West Wyalong. Lot notes list XB ewes and lambs in good store condition with prices quoted around 40s to 60s, plus fattening wethers and other store stock.
At the Forbes branch meeting of the Torchbesses for Legacy the secretary outlined a local appeal linked to the War Orphans’ Appeal Committee including plans for carnival week events and a card party at Forbes Bowling Club to raise funds. A lecture series and public wheeling were approved for Legacy activities this year.
Wool values rise as auctions draw buyers from across the state. Prices for fine and crossbred wools advance amid strong Yorkshire Continental competition and steady demand from mills. Rain in the southern Riverina looms as a factor for future stock movements.
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