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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 21, 1927
Page
9
Notice lists services from Bandmaster A Prescott including repairs for gramophones and violins with in‑house waiting, plus instruments bought sold and exchanged. Also mentions private lodging for a respectable young man, and other local notices for machinist services and seed wheat sales.
Tenders addressed to the undersigned for four contracts close at 4 pm on the 4th next. Contracts include supply of nametags and lettering for road direction boards, grader formation on remiss, stone crossings on Forbes Burra wang road, and one stone crossing on Boyd road near Gareema. Specifications on request. security 6 percent required. lowest tender not guaranteed. T C Jago Shire Clerk Forbes January 20 1927.
Tenders are invited for a slightly shifting wooden building on Broad Street Bugowra. Tenders close 22nd Ins. Obtain particulars from Forbes Advocate Office or Wheatley & Hill Bugowra.
Tenders invited for stripping and relaying roof of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Forbes. Tenders close Saturday January 29. Specifications available at this office or with W G Dodd Parkes.
For sale an auction listing offers a Delco electric light plant with 20 lights and a refrigerator, a near new cottage billiard table, oak bedroom suite, piano and claviola, all in good order. Located at Lachlan Arcade Auction Market.
Forbes church schedule shows Sunday services at 11:00 a.m. with subject Gods Five fold Mercions and 7:30 p.m. with a message from Carcobergie. Premises on Rankin Street Forbes advertised. inquiry by Mrs A Stibbard. Also note: Light Sunshade on Boyd Road, event by widow, and a leather bag lost between Jemalong and Condobolin containing men’s clothing with a reward.
A Dance A Dance will be held at Gareem on Wednesday night the 20th inst with good floor music and supper. Gentlemen 4 shillings ladies 2 shillings. J A Sturgess honorary secretary.
Classified notice seeking farming partnership for wheat farming on halves. Applicants to apply at the Advocate Office. One or more year term possible. Contact KEANE, Auctioneer, Forbes for details.
A large turnout attended a novelty dance at Town Hall on Wednesday night for Business Girl candidate Myrtle Burton. Royal Orchestra provided music and encores were frequent as trophies were presented for the Sports Club Handicap Farewell Handicap and Beaten Picnic Handicap.
The local Court of Petty Sessions sets forty five cases for Tuesday Box. Twenty five cases involve the Federal Electoral Act with defendants charged for failing to register a vote at the last election.
The Trundle Soldiers' Memorial Hall is set to open on March 15 with a racing day planned for the following day. Civil notices include a police court case against Frederick William Cater for offensive behaviour and an auction report noting machinery sales and livestock prices. Local bowls and overdue rates updates are also listed with council efforts to recover arrears.
The council acts on a Advocate suggestion to improve the Weir pool area at South Forbes. As river levels fall in dry weather the swimming space shrinks and a working bee is urged to dig another well at the bend to maintain a safe swimming level.
A bright display of fireworks lit the morning sky as an advocate noticed the event while closing windows after a late temperance meeting. Thunder followed and rain was light in Forbes with heavier storms nearby.
Kenny's furniture dealers of Orange extend operations to Forbes opening Monday at Rankin Street corner opposite Mansfield. The site formerly Hughest Corner is slated to become Kenny's Corner offering furnishings and a music parlor with gramophones and player pianos. Jim Kenny will lead locally, bringing family business know how.
Local notes report births at Brentwood private hospital and hospitalizations including Mrs. Geegan’s daughter delivery and Crombie private hospital throat trouble. Postmaster shifts noted with Mr. Qacar Watson’s Forbes posting and Kinninga of Australian rng Co. awaiting leave. A range of community updates cover council staff, visiting dignitaries, bowling events, and regional travel by residents and guests.
Forecast for Central Western Division calls for fair warmer days with temperatures from 74 to 96. Rainfall reports show modest totals early in the week. A violent electrical storm hit Forbes between 4 and O'clock this morning causing brief heavy rain before skies cleared. Armstrong Siddeley cars praised with local agent W Gaggin delivering a 14/30 Loop car to Mr T D Wall for £596 fully equipped.
Until a new part for the post office turret clock arrives, the striker remains out of order and a clock expert visit is expected. The Forbes Picnic Club holds its annual meeting at Vandegberg Hotel at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Subscribing hospital supporters meet Tuesday at Town Hall to elect a new committee. Austen Pratley offers silk shirts collars and ties as the town’s latest men’s wear.
Among the passes in the recent intermediate examinations across the States are Joyce Debenham Normanhurst Ashfield daughter of Mr and Mrs Debenham Frank Stitt King's School Parramatta son of Mr and Mrs W H R Stitt A D Bray Church of England Grammar School North Sydney son of Mr and Mrs T H Bray and Qudley Leader St Joseph's College son of Mrs Deader live of the Metropolitan Hotel Forbes with the listed marks 18 26 3B 4B OB 108 148.
Alexander Robert George Taylor aged 26 and a 14 year old boy faced Parkes Police Court charged with assaulting Harold Powter on Parkes Road causing bodily harm. Taylor was committed for trial at Parkes Quarter Sessions. The boy was remanded to an institution on free charge. Taylor also faced a saddle theft charge tied to Forbes and was remanded to Forbes for hearing. At Forbes Court Taylor faced additional saddle and horse theft charges and bail was declined.
Mr H H Dare and Mr F M Smith visited Forbes to inspect the Wrangla Dam area en route to Condobolia. Survey work is underway led by Surveyor Thornbury with work camps and access roads planned. The Public Works Committee backs the project as the first major water conservation scheme and a Parliament bill may authorize it. The dam is seen as boosting Lachlan Valley production and may become a tourist spot with wildlife and recreation potential.
Correspondence notes aldermen delaying the Alfred Stokes memorial work. Stone cut at Alexandria yards with a flawed first block, a second ordered from Italy causing delay. Letter urges Mayor to ensure fence completion and fountain erection in Orange as a fitting memorial by January 1927.
Douglas Venns, a South African house steward, died after a Monday incident at Mr. W. H. Stitt's Wandary Station. He allegedly cried I will not be flashed again after a draught from a towel bottle and was taken to District Hospital in unconsciousness where he later died. Coroner Sam will hold an inquiry at 10 p.m. Monday.
Mr E C Best M L A received a reply to his representations on employing local labor for the Camp Street bridge. The Main Roads Board has let the contract for the Forbes concrete bridge to State Menter Pipe Works. Local labor is used on country work with a few expert leaders necessary for concrete construction.
A list of players for My alle agiinet Cumbltowna at Cumbltowa on Sunday with a 9 a.m. bus departure and time reminders. Colts face Wirring a at No 2 ground Sunday 10 30 a.m. Forbes team to play Grenfell Central on Wednesday. Yarraws meet Growlin in the Kelly Cup at Forbes Sunday with 10 a.m. ground arrival and one shilling admission.
The page lists entries and horses for several races including a hurdle event, Master Yet, Mount Marta, three year old handicap races, Rosebale and Rosedance, a nursery handicap, and contenders such as Valora Vlaga, Chrysital, Hairn, Persuasion, Aeneid, Bacchus, Kepicure, Buchanan, Gaelic Maid, Giggle, and Weller.
Nominations for the Cowra P A H meeting close Friday January 21 with programmes obtainable from the local secretary or Cowra secretary EB Todhunter. Strong noms for the Trundle races on February 2 and borst close with Secretary Jack Medlyn on Wednesday. A race meeting at Burrowra on Anniversary Day Wednesday is set with big nominations recalled for each event promising a good day of sport.
Aldermen at a special meeting debated the 1937 estimates amid tight funds. Increases were proposed for Nelson Park banda subsidy and sexton hours, with Crippin arguing for band support. Water supply costs prompted a garden charge plan, and the session adjourned after 11 with more business slated for Monday on gas.
The H M S Renown arrived on Thursday morning as per Kingston advice. The Duke and Duchess of York received a tremendous reception. The annual A W U convention at Katoomba is held behind closed doors with indications of major revelations about the Reda influence on Parliament members. Local Government officials celebrate the Auditor General's withdrawal of the directive on the Male Roads account. Government requests delayed road work across the State.
Strand Theatre screens Stella Dallas with Ronald Colman Belle Bennett and others. Biella Dallas touted as a major photoplay from United Artists. Also shows The Great Love with Viola Dana Robert Agnew and Norma the elephant and The Unknown Purple plus The Duchess of Buffalo with Constance Talmadge. Crowd roars at Moscow veil dance.
A wild elephant in Forbes attracts talk while imports of fashion and footwear thrill shoppers at the Ladies' Shoe Parlour. Bargains flood local stores, with Baby garments at Miss Bathgate’s Rankin Street and groceries advertised as honest value at Black's Store North Hill.
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