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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 28, 1949
Page
6
Multiple classified items listed for sale or employment from Condobolin to Malvern and Forbes. Battery wireless new, power lifts, seed rye, mowers, refrigerators, tractors, and secondhand models. Jobs for male clerk under 25, temp staff, furniture department helper. Wording indicates immediate delivery, agency contact details and local notices.
AEL Auxiliary to hold annual meeting in League Rooms on February 9 at 3 pm. Town delivery claims settled. river sand, pit sand, ashes, manure, rubbish removal arranged. Ads include shop items, lampshades, the Heath cake mixer at seven pounds twelve shillings six pence. Obituaries/memorials for Esther Field, Thomas Burton, and Jack Haynes inserted by family. memories expressed by relatives.
Members of the Methodist Tennis Club are called to a meeting at the Church Hall on Tuesday next, 1st February, at ? pm. Full attendance requested. Rev. Ke. Doust, President.
Classified notices from Forbes advertise a share gardener needed for a 50 acre property with building materials listed including bricks timber iron and blocks. Also offered are a Pontiac Deluxe sedan with radio, a diesel stationary engine and a 25 cwt truck with 3,000 miles. Separate line requests include local school pupils on roll and board free with phone contacts for H A Pursins in Cowra Road Forbes.
Municipal notice from Forbes outlines Local Government Act election rules for two Aldermen to the Council for the forthcoming triennial period. Nomination Day is February 11 1949, with nominations due by 5 PM on February 16. Postal voting provisions and eligibility details are included, plus appointment of Stanley Thomas Gale as Substitute Returning Officer and signature of D P Dempsey Town Clerk.
Shire of Jemalong invites tenders with a 42 percent cash deposit for gravel supply, delivery and spreading across multiple contracts from Fort Gowns to Forbes and Eugowra. Tenders close 5 p.m. Monday February 21 1949, with details and forms obtainable from Main Roads Office Sydney Parkes and Shire Office Forbes.
The Shire of Jemalong warns that any person illegally removing gravel from a stockpile on the State Highway Main and Trunk Road Developmental Roads or other roads within the Shire will be prosecuted. No further warning will be given. Shire Clerk Forbes January 1.
Shire of Jemalong invites tenders with 24 percent deposit for supply delivery and spread of 462 yards of gravel along Forbes Parker section of State Highway No 17. Tender close Monday February 14 1949. Specifications at Shire Office Forbes. Lowest tender not necessarily accepted. Shire Clerk Forbes. 12 January 1949.
Shire of Jemalong invites tenders with 2 percent cash deposit for Contract 47/31 the construction of a 3 cell by 2 foot reinforced concrete box culvert at the 183 mile mark from Forbes. Tender must be lodged by 5 pm Monday February 12 169 at the Department of Main Roads offices in Sydney Parkes and the Shire office.
Government Gazette notice under the Public Work Act 1912 calls attention to resumptions of land with notification details in Gazette No 162 dated noted in the record.
A protest dance event labeled as a Protestant ball was announced for Thursday February 3 at a venue named Parees in Joens Uniech. The posting cites a female bar staff and a girl relieving a waitress role in the event lineup.
Veteran broadcaster Eric Gillett recalls his nerves at the red light and the thrill of early radio. He recounts an incident from 1927 when an announcer asked him to continue after a power outage in Daventry, noting how modern tech has cooled some of the excitement.
The Condobolin Football Club led Group XI with the largest credit balance at season end. A brief notice announces the annual meeting set for Friday February 11 in Counc il Chambers to present reports elect officers and discuss a new League constitution. An offer from Condobolin of 623 per week with job and free accommodation is noted in relation to a city project.
A local writer argues for a single, no-fee central Progress Association to unite cricket, football, social groups, and business groups. It would fund operations via a central fund, limit membership rules, and relieve councils by handling townwide priorities through sectional committees. The plan envisions shared social events and a secretary role while preserving voluntary public service.
At a Graziers Association meeting last Friday afternoon chaired by A. K. Macintosh, members discussed rabbit pest reduction, rabidia price factors, and the impact of price shifts on trapping incentives. Resolutions urged prompt wool payments and opposed any form of government control or recontrolling hides and tallow.
A Moscow conference this month formed a six nation council including the Soviet Union Poland Bulgaria Romania Hungary and Czechoslovakia for mutual economic aid. They will exchange technical data raw materials food and machinery and seek to aid participating states while excluding Yugoslavia.
Acting Prices Commissioner Mr Bellemore refused an application to remove meat price controls after a deputation of carcase butchers argued for higher quality meat. Minister Mr Fintan stated there would be no lifting of price controls in NSW. The government noted evidence of overcharging by butchers and warned the public would suffer without price regulation.
A Melbourne meeting of the Australian Automobile Association and allied groups urged the federal government to cut the petrol tax and boost state road funds. Delegates from all states voiced strong public support, noting less than half the tax goes to roads and stressing urgent relief for road authorities and local councils.
Minister for Agriculture Mr H Graham presented the State Championship Lamb Breeders Trophy at Hotel Orange yesterday, won by OC Lodge of Rosewick Mullthorpe formerly Ellerslie Forbes. The Rural Bank backed the competition run by the Department of Agriculture, drawing wide state interest. An RSL building plan for a 12 storey Anga House near Martin Place and Macquarie Street Sydney, costing over £430,000, received sympathetic consideration from Building Materials Minister Dickson.
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