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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 27, 1925
Page
10
A western New South Wales sheep farmer, convinced eagles kill lambs, sets a wire net enclosure four to five feet high. Inside are three or four half grown fowls. around the netted fowls are about a dozen rabbit traps at varied distances. A report notes about 100 hawks caught in weeks, some with wingspread up to aft, and claims lambing has risen about 80 percent since adopting the trap.
T W Watson licensed surveyor and valuator expert valuation services for Crown land tenures land surveys mining and engineering surveying probate valuations and appeals specialist under mining and real property acts contact Harold Street Forbes.
Sutton faced charges of breaking and entering Henry Johnson's bakery at Welcome Street Parkes and stealing a cash box with 63 copper coins plus a receipt of receiving. After evidence and juror challenges the jury found him not guilty on both counts.
His Honor dismissed Annie Johnson's appeal against a four month vagrancy sentence after she sobbed for mercy. He allowed indulgence by delaying payment of £5 5s costs, granting a month to pay once she completes the sentence.
His Honor delivered reserved judgment on Claude Fletcher’s appeal against a conviction for driving at a pace dangerous to the public in Clarinda Street Parkes. He found police failed to prove furious driving and quashed the conviction ordering a refund of the £5 fine and costs. Emerton appeared for the appellant.
Bogan Gate cricketers visited Trundle on Sunday and were easily defeated. The visitors suffered another loss to Trundle, who beat them on their ground about a fortnight earlier. In local cricket news, Mr Dave Maples has returned home from Parkes hospital and expects a full recovery soon. Mr Les Keane, also recently released from hospital, is due home Wednesday and may be out of work for weeks due to a bad spin. Crop competition results awarded first prize to Mr William Scott, who won the Rawson McCauley cup for twelve months, with second prize going to Mr J A Treckett Junior. Scott’s crop was hail damaged after judging, leaving it eligible for the Royal Competition. Royal Agricultural Society officials and journalists visited Bogan Gate to judge first-prize winners. Harvest weather remains wet after over two inches of rain, delaying haymaking. forecasters expect 41 hands to start harvest by week’s end. Silos opened and several loads of new wheat already brought in.
Thos Bentley and Percy Eric Jerome Hetherington, who pled guilty to conspiring to defraud Louie Dreyfus and Co. of £374, faced sentence after restitution discussions. His Honor deemed the theft deliberate and serious, granting the possibility of reduced terms if restitution was fully made. Hetherington received two years nine months hard labor, Bentley two years five months, both to serve in Goulburn Gaol.
Doctor W Gordon Stables endorses SIP tea as a healthful beverage with amber liquid indicating quality. The piece urges readers to start using SIP tea and notes grocers sell it offering coupon incentives. Taste the tea before meals to gain its invigorating effects.
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