The Cricket Season Serves City Cricketers With Value
The Cricket Season offers gear and supplies at city prices to meet all cricketing needs. Local shop figures highlight competitive rates on bats pads balls and apparel for players of every level.
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 21, 1930
Page
3
The Cricket Season offers gear and supplies at city prices to meet all cricketing needs. Local shop figures highlight competitive rates on bats pads balls and apparel for players of every level.
In Coonabarabran on a Friday dawn, two well known farmers attempted to rob the Bank of New South Wales. After a pistol duel with police and locals, they were captured while cutting the bank safe with oxy acetylene gear. Clerk knocked unconscious, residents rallied, and Constable Heldtman led the manhunt culminating in the arrest of the two burglars. Two men refused bail when brought before the local police court.
In Brisbane region this morning at 1:50 am intruders tried to rob the Bank of NSW at Eumundi on the North Coast 79 miles from Brisbane. They throttled a teller and shot the manager in the abdomen when he appeared. A special train took him to Gympie Hospital. The attackers fled, possibly fearing discovery.
Asman Blondie Nabiac herbalist and Indian consulting expert plans visits to Gloucester October 27 at Philip's Hotel. Stroud Head OQeithey attends October 2 at Central Hotel Dungor and October 3 at Court House Hotel Gresford with Beatty's Hotel bookings.
The Australian Dairy Council funds NSW demonstrations on pasture management and fertilisation via a rotational grassland system tied to butter factories. Twelve factories will participate, supported by fertiliser firms, agrostologist J Whittet, and Dairy Expert G S Stening, aiming to boost producer profitability and educate farmers.
Sir Henry Braddon highlights public life and warns that nominal high wages mask reduced purchasing power for workers. He cites 1911 to 1928 data showing doubling in real wages not matching wage levels, noting a worker’s ability to buy goods fell despite higher nominal pay. Polling day is Saturday next with compulsory voting.
The text notes Dr. FW. ehoaue urges smoking or snuffing as a germicidal, citing past plagues and cholera. It claims tobacco smoke protects visitors to the sick, aided by pyridine, and that tobacco was once used in churches as incense. It mentions Hamburg cholera epidemics and cigar factories with few deaths among workers.
The Department of Agriculture anticipates a wheat harvest in Victoria of about 70,000,000 bushels if no unforeseen events occur. The figure is considered a conservative estimate and reflects expectations for the coming season.
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