Bowling Club meets to plan night play and trophies
Forbes Bowling Club held a weekly meeting led by E A Austen with strong turnout. W Kilpatrick reappointed green keeper. a housing committee was named. four night trophies worth £2 2s for winning rink and £1 1s for runner up were agreed. entry fees to be collected by Austen and Crombie for selection by Besgrove Maguire and Dr McLean. council to consider electrical engineer for lighting. eight new seats for greens approved. championship and handicap singles events set with prizes £1 1s and £0 10s 6d. a rink ladder discussed but postponed. Sunday play allowed. Kilpatrick Crombie elected to prepare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sntry
Green
Maments
Mesars
Austen
Crombie
Messrs
C. Besgrove
N. Maguire
McLeann
Kilpatrick
Memars
Crombie Wert
Ted
Holable sales at Homebush draft of 250 ubred suckers
A partial readable fragment notes sales at Homebush last Thursday. It mentions a draft of 250 ubred suckers from Jemalong Station, For ber, with figures 23/1 and Carson's aic appearing as related data points.
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Homebush
Jemalong
Forber
Carson
Aic
Obelisk Quarry Tales From Ancient Egypt to London
A narrator and a young engineer tour the Aswan granite quarries and imagine Cleopatra’s Needle origin. They contrast the quarry’s red rock with London’s Embankment and discuss unfinished obelisks, ancient quarrying methods, and the stone trade across centuries.
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Aswan
Gudan
Thames Embankment
Thames
London
Une
Asm
Britain
Cleopatra
Nedie
Heliopolla
Alexandria
Meliopolla
Moses
Egypt
Mark
Thomas Embankment
Logg
Aoid
Luxor
Sone
Palit
Nile
Dha Mint
Ancient
Council Defers Purchase of Auto Grading Plant
Shire Council debated upgrading road gravelling with a new auto grading plant after Mr A J Booth reported neglected main roads and rising costs. Tenders were tabled but deferred pending financial review. council may delay purchase for 18 months or seek rate reductions while maintaining road upkeep and state highway grading requirements.
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Demalong Shire
A. J. Booth
Vie Coune
Booth
Buddy Smid
Gr E J. CG. Speck
Fhs Bedelie
Lee
Speck
Shire
Correspondence at Jemalong Shire meeting highlights road concerns
At the monthly Jemalong Shire meeting, correspondence was thinner than usual. Items include WH Crow's note on the poor state of the High Park Estate to J H Griffith's gate, requests for road work near Eu gowra Road, and debates over funding for boundary roads between railway lines and Caragabal Road. The Back Creek and Boyd parish road levelling, petrol tax funding for road works, and a proposed vaccination push are also noted while the council agrees on some openings and protest on driftwood at the Lachlan River junction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jemalong Shire
Ouneli
WH. Crow
High Park Estate
J. H. Griffith
Eugowra
Gunning Gap
Caragabal Road
Lee
Back Creek Agric. Bureau
Marrawong Station
Garema
Bay
Trac
Narraworu- Blink Bonnie Corner
Back Creek Siding
Trafic
Perpetual Trustee Co
Boyd
Nambucca
Counc
Commonwealth
Department of Public Health
Tiwan
Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission
Bumbuggan
Connell
Wheatley
Main Roads Department
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Amott
Arnott
Trio Ono
Lie Brightiews
Aries
Banda of— Winchcombe
Garson Uta
Sydney
Vopable Am
Winchcombe Moun
Bridge Street
Stork & Steliin
Goldsbrough Mort £ CO. Ltd
Mchwon
Ines Fonwee
N.8
Hroken Hill
Coonamble
Hay, Wentworth, Young, Parkes
Forbes
South Grafton
H. A. Barraclough, Ltd
George Street
Vandenberg Hotel
A. W. Webster Stevem
MLO
Uae
Gravd
de Witt
Dewitt
Ae Mae Lewkago
Sketiza
Kidmep Tronkie
OUN
Forbes Bowling Club
E. A. Austen
Mrr
W. Kilpatrick
Hoase
H. Buckmaster
Jemalong Lambs
Y. Morton
Spock
Grimith
Pan Planta
Jack Guthrie Taylor
Clement Street
Porbea Newspaper Company, Limited
Lachlan Street
Emu
Theresa
Aunt Kate
Sakae
Victoria
Macquarie Place
FATS
G. Oatley
Forbes Branch
C. J. E. Butler
Schuie Bell Badgery Lumby Ltd
Shires’ Association
C.W.A
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