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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 16, 1938
Page
8
The text discusses defence planning and manpower in wartime Australia and Britain, stressing the need for trained labor and resources. It mentions air defence, riverine protection, and mobilization of home front industries, with references to aircraft, ships, and production capacity.
A first person travel feature recounts an Egyptian excursion with stops at a Ween hotel and local villages. The narrator describes schoolchildren, gardens, and a campidesque voyage along embankments, noting police presence and encounters with locals. A folkloric Solomon tale about a hoopoe crowns a bird with wisdom, ending as the group departs toward the canal area.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions tests and covers topics such as rubber-tyred tracers and a Newcastle wharves event. Names and places are garbled, but references to timing and personnel appear. The passage seems to describe a technical trial or demonstration with unclear details and dates.
Health inspector C J Prem told Forbes Council the Noxious Trades Act began on February 25 in the municipality. Owners of premises have not complied with regulations. Several pig keepers and fat extractors were listed for action. Department had asked for enforcement and inspections showed it impossible to meet standards within a month from August 1, 1934.
The report notes works must be completed no later than the wind September and recommends issuance of the Meenaes subject to satisfactory completion. The report was received and adopted. Printed and published by Jack Guthrie Taylor for Forbes, Penton per Company Limited, Lachlan Street, Forbes.
The Flint Street home of Mr. and Mrs. T Drene hosted a Tuesday night masked card party to raise funds for the Lakeside Cricky Club. Mrs Pollard received a salad set and Mr W Drewe a box of handkerchiefs as prizes.
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