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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 17, 1936
Page
5
Sunday notices list a Victoria Hotel job ad seeking a housemaid with applications invited. Timings and cryptic references include Forbes 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Hedperabong 3 p.m. as schedule notes.
A notice from Wamboyne PR Club invites submissions for the Wamboyne Picnic Races event to be held January 1937. It lists required forms and asks bidders to present prices for age related contests and facility testing as directed by the organizing committee.
Fragmentary OCR text appears to reference Forbes board proceedings and potential tenders, with broken place names and measurements. The readable items mention a bridge project, possible costs, and dates around December 1906, but the content is largely garbled and contains no clear actions or outcomes.
Notices warn voters of multiple vacancies and that polling at Forbes Town Hall opens at 7 o clock in the morning and closes in the afternoon. The listing also notes memorials to the deceased, a parish schedule for St John Forbes, and church services under Rector Rh Mathers.
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantus Agency Go Ltd and associates report a firm market at Forbes with limited clearance and yarding mainly of young western sheep. Fat sheep and woolly shorn sheep led the sale. prices quoted for various classes, with the next sale announced for Friday November 27.
The Shire Council discussed the clerks report on current and arrears collected since the last meeting. Thirty ratepayers without payment arrangements face potential legal action after December 1. final notices issued September ith show many partial payments and extended arrangements.
At Fridays meeting Dr Hammond pressed for delivery of the tractor grader plant for Corinella and OC Riding. The council backed sticking to the engineer's schedule, with work expected by about April unless a very wet autumn delays it, and reviews of completed contracts and gravel paving on several roads including Parkes Road and North Condobolin Road were approved.
The clerk logs show bank balances across funds with under General fund debit 1461 6, trust fund credit 925 10 9, loan rates account 200 28, local fund debit 23 19 1, and a misprinted trust account a noted Cook Laundress for county. Apply by letter to A Bray Narragamba for details.
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