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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 21, 1952
Page
3
Attractive velvet covered lounge suite priced at £227. The item features double sided velvet loose cushions and is fully sprung with a webbed construction throughout. A compact stylish seating option for living spaces.
Visiting optician Mr D J Bono from London will visit Forbes on Tuesday April 29. Appointments, if desired, can be made at Kmpton Consulting Pharmacy Room, Vandenberg Hotel.
The Forbes Council approved use of the Town Hall for the High School assembly for half an hour weekly to foster unity and strong school spirit. Mr J Mad suggested the plan, aiming to halt delays in obtaining a hall and avoid long-term reliance on other spaces.
Congratulations go to Mr and Mrs Moel Rath of Templar Street on the birth of a daughter at the Mater Hospital on Wednesday March 19. Also noted are travels and holidays of Melbourne area residents and local social details including Jule Campbell fracturing an arm and hospital recovery of Mrs Murle Spice.
Claire Beryl Parker of Linda Street is engaged to Bruce WH Hiam, son of Mr. and Mrs. A Treanor of Underwood Street. The notice lists readers, hospital admissions and discharges in Forbes and surrounding areas, including Edna Ellis and Elizabeth Coffer, with several travels and medical attendances noted.
Murray River towns along the Lachlan form the Lachlan Valley League to promote development water conservation irrigation and industry. The Riverlander becomes its salute as an organ to serve the fertile river region with aims aligned to the Murray Valley Development League and closer settlement housing power and industry expansion are emphasized to unlock the area’s full potential.
Shirley Treanor daughter of Mr and Mrs A Treanor of Underwood Street was nominated by Forbes Young Anghams to represent the parish in the forthcoming queen competition. Fundraising ideas were discussed though no work begins before April 1. Proposals included street stalls badges bean or tomato picking and a gardening and housework agency. Members may submit further ideas to club secretary John Dunn.
Foremost Franklin quotation aside, local items report Mrs Clifford and Mrs Molloy visiting Forbes as guests of Mrs G Molloy, extended holidays at Manly and Orange, and various residents’ movements. Noel Anderson covers pharmacy duties during Kennard absence. Mary Ann Healey, 88, mother of Bede Healey, dies at Bankstown. family includes seven sons and two daughters.
About ninety town and country friends and relatives gathered at the C W A rooms to celebrate Norman Merritt’s coming of age. Guests included his fiancée Miss Margaret Gunn and his parents Mr and Mrs H R Merritt. Norman thanked attendees and presented his school friend Bruce Achoom with a cake baked by his grandmother.
At the meeting on May 14, members discussed a Young Anglicans tea to be held on the first Sunday of each month. The plan assigns the fairer sex to food preparation and men to washing up. New members Dawn Huckle and Shirley Thomas were welcomed.
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