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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 26, 1928
Page
4
Weekly items from The Advocate cover Parkes and surrounding towns with harvest progress, court notes, club officers, and local deaths. Details include taxi to log yard changes, bakers fined for early starts, hospital finances, and rainfall across districts.
Trespassers on Burrawang South Station Yarrabandal will be prosecuted. Ten pound reward for convincing evidence on unlawful stock removal and sixty pound reward for any property damage. Warden manager.
After a long trip with Liverpool London & Globe agent Moore Brooke & Co, the Forbes district reports a champion one man wheat crop across much of the Western wheat belt. The Red Land at Silver Row, ten miles north of Forbes, yields 20 to a bushel per acre across varieties Waratah Canberra Turvey. The crop grew on 40 acres with fallow land previously unused for years, clean of disease and foreign seed, and made possible by early burning of stubble. Mr Cannon invites visitors to see Silver Row.
Divisional Returning Officer Mr RW Evans announces post offices in the Calare division hold postal vote applications. Eligible voters may vote by post if absent from the state on polling day, more than five miles from polling booth, due to conditions preventing voting, illness or infirmity, or approaching maternity. Applications must be witnessed and returned with an authorised witness list provided on the vote certificate. Electors should submit forms early.
Dalgety and Co Ltd held a special sheep sale in Cootamundra on Friday the ninth, yarding 10 600 sheep with strong demand from buyers across multiple towns including Albury Wagga Wagga Holbrook Corowa and Cooma. Top pens featured 1000 four year old Manfred ewes at 18/7 and 3200 Yarran and Yoorounga ewes at 16/4 with other wool classes selling well.
Business office sates for sale made from high grade rolled British steel plates. For particulars apply Advocate Office. All communications addressed to The Manager Forbes Advocate Box 24 Forbes.
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