Market Reports From Homebush Stock Sale Australia
Winchcombe Carson at Homebush auction yard reported 1259 cattle yarded with mixed quality. Highest prices reached £23 16s for 9 bullocks and steers, £18 16s for A K Carter steers, and cows up to £15 1s. Vealers and calves sold to£8 9s and £7 10s respectively as dealers and farmers priced stock around average rates.
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Homebush Stock
Sydney
Winchecombe, Carson Ltd
Homebush
Winchcombe Carson
R. D. Andrews
Mr. George
Gloucester
J. H. Relf
W. A. Relf
Farley Bros
Bignell Bros
A. K. Carter
Stear
Wilson
J. H. Farley
Shaw Bros
F. G. Farley
King Bros
Maitland Stock Sales Fat Cattle and Pigs
About 800 fat cattle yarded at West Maitland with brisk competition. Best bullocks £20-£22, medium £17-£19, light £9-£16/10. Cows £13-£15, medium £10/10-£12. Pigs: 500 baconers, firm at last day rates. backfattera to 200/-, heavy bacon pigs to 1354/6, slips and suckers 10/6-28/6. Calves: 400, best heavy to £5/10, bobbies to £4, good and heavy £2/10-, others lower.
Golf Notes Locke and Fulton Cups
Competition for the Locke and Fulton Cups yielded strong golf with Val Garner leading both cups and winning the Monthly Medal. Garner’s handicap dropped by six strokes. Leading scores included Garner 70 in the Locke Cup and 66 in the Fulton Cup. Charlton 76 and Hollinsworth 71. Dr. Channon 72. Fulton Cup second round scheduled for next weekend. The Associates announce a 12-hole Secret Hole event on Wednesday June 28 with a draw pairing Hollingeworth vs Frost and Garner paired with Middlebrook among others.
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Val Garner
AIF
W. Garner
T. Charlton
T. Hollinsworth
Dr. Channon
Associates
Hollingeworth
Frost
Middlebrook
Garner
Yates
Helf
Munry
Woolford
Cavanough
Laurence
Aid for Aircraft in Distress
The volunteer Air Observers Corps has selected about 175 emergency landing grounds and prepared them for night or day emergencies where no aerodromes exist. Under RAAF supervision and with the National Safety Council of Australia, WAOC trains crews to read signals, rescue crash victims, and establish forced landing grounds. 100 sites are in New South Wales, 40 in Victoria, 35 in Western Australia.
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Volunteer
Air Observers Corps
V.A.O.C
RAAF
National Safety Council of Australia
WAOC
New South Wales
Victoria
Western Australia
National Safety Council
The Power and Influence of the Red Cross
A veteran recalls the Geneva Conventions emblem born in 1864 and the Red Cross’s protection of the wounded. He cites stories from South Africa to Anzac, noting Captain Oates, Private Kirkpatrick, and Wiliams, and contrasts 1918 camel evacuations with modern aerial ambulances, praising the Red Cross’s life saving mission.
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Red Cross
Geneva
Switzerland
Red Cross Society
South Africa
Fle
L. E. G. Oates
Inniskitlen Dragoons
Scott
South Pole
Hellbron
Transvaal
Australia
New Britain
German New Guinea
W. G. V. Williams
Melbourne
Brian Pockley
Wiliams
Stoker Kember
Berrima
Williams
Anzac
John Simpson Kirkpatrick
Ald Australian Field Ambulance
Christ
Jerusalem
Simpson
Monash Valley
Transjordania
Moab
Gilead
Ramen
Jordan Valley
Lottery prizes held for infants cause delays
The State Lottery Director announced that two £5000 prizes and a £1000 prize were delayed because tickets were bought in infants’ names. About a dozen major prizes have been held up for this reason since the lottery began. Parents faced indignant reactions as minors cannot legally discharge prize payments.
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Quinlin
Treasury
Quinlan
Lottery Department
Kempsey Show Profit Reported By Treasurer Cosbay
At the North Coast National Agricultural Society meeting Friday night last for the year ended May 1, treasurer W. T. Cosbay stated the surplus reached 881 pounds 7 shillings 7 pence.
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Kempsey
North Coast National Agricultural Society
W. T. Cosbay
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Woods
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Donald Cameron, Kcmg
Dso
Gloucester Shire Yards
Hereford Stoke
J. PB. Smyth
Lenvale
Warlalda
W. E. Sparke
TD . A. Matthewson
Bessie Shepherd
W. Clark
Carsonville
Grahame
N. Germon
G. D. Melmeth
PBO
Craven
Moffat
Milkers & Engines
Maitland
J. Bennett
Moffat Virtue Milkers
Hardie Rubber Co. Ltd
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