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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 14, 1920
Page
4
Public alert issued by Wallace Hunter forbidding hunting shooting or trespassing on Prairie Lands with intent to prosecute violators. Date noted 20 February 1920.
At the Goobang Shire Council meeting plans were approved for a 10 acre sanitary depot at Tullamore and a survey of the site. Tenders were accepted for road clearing and maintenance on several routes and a proposal urged a two year special rate to fund major road and bridge work to service new sidings and stations along the Eupowra line.
At the monthly Wed din Shire meeting Constable Dixon reported Joseph Crowe fulfilled conditions and recommended granting a slaughtering license. The Engineer was ordered to inspect and repair Bogolong Bridge and to tend the Marsden Road causeway. Requests to gravel a Quandialla road segment and to clear a Butler to Huckel road were noted. Drainage costs at Caracahal rose to £49 25s 6d with approval sought to cover extra. Abridged from Grenfell Observer.
The Boree Shire Council resolved to engage the Engineer to draft plans for numbering houses and renaming streets in Canowindra Manildra and Eugowora to improve identification for sanitary services. A Public Health Director General note supported extending Eugowra scavenging area. A letter from Rees Thomas requests gravel paving for a road near the confluence of boundaries of Goodacre Mulligan and Cook, with maintenance to fund a bed approach issue noted by W Childs near Canowindra road.
A vintage advertisement claims headaches back aches neuralgia and hundreds of ailments stem from poor blood and exhausted nerves. It touts Hean's Tonie Nerve Nuts as a blood purifying and nerve nourishing remedy made by a veteran chemist and recommended by a eminent neurologist.
The Forbes horse Pine Park ridden by an elated Roy Strickland won the Randwick steeplechase by three lengths from Cerise and Grey and Grand Foote. Earlier performances included wins at Parkes Cootamundra and Orange in one week. At Sydney stadium Tommy Uren was knocked out by Billy Shade in the nineteenth round. Tattersall's Club results featured a tight Tramway Handicap and a record Chelmsford Stakes time by Chrysolaus.
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