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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 04, 1924
Page
7
An old classified note advertises a selection of French and English perfumery and face powder for Christmas. Prices are given for various items, with mentions of musk and other scents, plus hair brushes and makeup. The bitty text suggests a sale by a local vendor, listing date codes and prices in a fragmented roster.
For R Hornspy Sons Sydney offers specialist steam gas and suction gas engines, pumping plant installations and general machinery repairs. Mail letters to Box 62 Forbes or call 80 for inquiries and service.
Parliament debated a proposed 44 mile Wyalong to Wamboyne line. The Public Works Committee report described the area as suitable for wheat and later lucerne cultivation with substantial land available for settlement. MPs urged early action and consideration of extending the line to Conchobatin, outlining expected agricultural and settlement benefits and irrigation potential.
A call goes out to readers to submit names for the Forbes Intermediate High School honor roll soon to be erected. Mr L J Fell heads the reviving effort and readers are asked to provide names of former pupils or teachers who served in the late war and are not yet listed.
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