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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 16, 1914
Page
7
Parkes Pony Racing Club announces its Anniversary Meeting on Monday January 26 1914 with prizes totaling £60. Events include the Anniversary Handicap Nomination and Scourage Handicap for older trotters, plus other handicaps and distances. Handicaps declared January 23 with details from official programmes. secretary AJ Go Bollinger invites inquiries.
The Buxton and Binns timber business touts consistent quality and reliable service. It claims only good timber earns repeat orders, offering liners, turnery, joinery, roofing iron, paints, cement, and other building materials with immediate delivery and a single account and settlement for every job.
Saxton and Binns, Ltd., timber and joinery merchants, Pyrrmont, Sydney.
Forbes council discussed replacing a damaged fence between the Botanical Gardens and Av Doris with a wire dropper option. It approved appointing a sanitary plant manager, reviewed street tar repairs on Howl and Lachlan streets, and debated budget items including water rates and paving needs.
At a Tuesday Municipal Council session the mayor and Aldermen debated selling 400 gallons of tar from the gas works to fund Fitzgeralds Bridge repairs. The railway objected to tar transport in heat. some urged delaying sales until winter, others pressed for immediate supply to speed repairs. Assembly finally approved selling 400 gallons for the bridge project, with Alderman Sam voting no. The room erupted in laughter and color as the vote concluded.
Notice to farmers and settlers in Forbes district invites immediate action to repair broken farm machinery parts such as harvesters plows and chaff cutters. Foote & Lancaster Parkes offers an Oxl Acetylene Welding Plant to weld cast iron steel or aluminum with hydrogen compatibility and rapid decarbonising for motor vehicle parts. A crowd sang For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow at a North Queensland event.
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