Goldabrough Mort and Company announces 1933 34 roster and sale
The final roster for the 1933/34 season lists 27 894 bales allocated for the series. A sale day is set for Tuesday 12 June with a catalogue of about 2500 bales. Wools offered are mixed including crutchings and autumn shorn wools. The fall in wool values is linked to overseas financial and political conditions, though raw material stocks are low and a rise in values is expected if Germany Italy and Japan secure outside finance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Italy
Japan
Wool Report from Farmers and Graziers Co op Day
The report notes uncertainty in the wool trade amid German embargoes affecting Bradford and unchanged May 24 quotas. Wool shipments from the Commonwealth to Germany fell since 1922/23, with Belgium rising. France dropped sharply, possibly diverted to Antwerp. June sale roster announced for about 000 bales, catalog due Monday. A poem by Yvonne Webb accompanies the item.
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Co-operative
Bradford
Commonwealth
Germany
Belgium
Mary
France
Antwerp
Finest Blankets And Rugs At Special Prices
Local listing promotes Onkaparinga blankets noted as the finest quality with prices for single, double bed featherdown quilts and satin quilts. Kapok filled items advertised from 30 shillings plus a large selection of all wool rugs with price points 14/11, 34/6, 39/8, 36/ and 66/.
Grenfell Jockey Club and Diggers Race Meetings Detailed
Next Wednesday and Thursday Grenfell Jockey Club and Diggers Race Club meet with 84 horses and 227 entries a record. GC races Wednesday Diggers start Thursday with good track promises two days of racing. A Thursday misprint corrected for business closures and booth allocations list Jas Fraser and J Logan as key holders. First races set for Wednesday 145 and Thursday 130.
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Grenfell Jockey Club
Diggers' Race Club
Diggers
Jas. Fraser
Exhange Hotel
J. Logan
Men Help Hospital With Wood Day Effort
More than thirty men mainly relief workers volunteered to furnish wood for Wood Day at Woodbury District Hospital on Tuesday. Shipping exceeded nine hundred cards of wood to the grounds, meeting the annual push.
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Worbes Distriet Hospital
Lottery winner Whiddon nets vast shares in weekly draws
W H Whiddon has set a remarkable lottery record by accruing over £40,000 in 30 weeks and sharing prizes with country participants. People unable to visit the lottery office send for share tickets, each potentially worth £1,000, with dozens of names listed as recent beneficiaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lotwins
W. H. Whiddon
Mr. Whiddon
Prizce
J. Cole
Kandos
R. A. Smith
Lithgow
M. Donohue
Quirindi
W. McDaniel
Gundagai
A. Wilson
Goulburn
W. J. Hatcher
Kempsey
B. Fuller
Megan
Whiddon
Sunday Church Notices for Grenfell and District
Church listings for Grenfell region dated Sunday June 17 present services across denominations. Officers include Rev J 8 Paine and Rev J 5 Paine with times for Church of England Presbyterians Methodists Salvation Army and local home leagues and sabbath school details across Grenfell Lonsdale Caragabal Greenethorpe and surrounding areas.
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Trinity
Grenfell
U Am. Taupm
Lonsdale
Caragabal
St Josephs Church Sunday Mass Schedule Listings
The church issue lists Mass times by Sunday, with Caragabal Pullabooka Bimbi Viney Range and Grenfell services on various Sundays. Baptisms are held Saturdays at 8. Marriages require banns notices in time for publication.
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Caragabal
Pullabooka
Qoma
Warraderry
St. Joseph's
Grenfell
Auction Draws No Bids Then Sells Two Cars Together
At Horley Surrey England an auction offered two second-hand cars in separate lots but drew no bids. The auctioneer combined the pair and received a bid of 10 shillings for the pair, with no increase. The hammer fell at that price.
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Horley
Surrey
England
Lexicon Card Game Becomes Craze at Teas in Sydney
A new card game named Lexicon, a cross between a cross war puzzle and rummy, is set to appear. Originating in America, it uses a pack with two alphabets to form words by discarding, with spellers scoring hundreds when a word has multiple spellings. Lexicon has spread to England with big prizes and hosts holding Lexicon drives instead of bridge events.
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America
Sydney
England
Bathurst memorial gates proposed at Machattie Park
A Bathurst plan to honor past mayors by erecting memorial gates on the George Street side of Machattie Park. Ballina to vote on changing the half holiday to Wednesday on 16th. John Bull carries bullion news as a £10,000,000 Canadian issue in London was oversubscribed in ninety minutes.
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Ballina
E. T. Webb
Edmund Webb
Bathurst
Guy Webb
George-street
Machattie Park
Australia
John Bull
London
Burgess Optometrists Visit Grenfell Exchange Hotel
J B and R Burgess FlO optometrists and opticians of 67 Castlereagh Street Sydney visit the Exchange Hotel Grenfell regularly with next visit scheduled for Wednesday 27 June at the same venue.
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J. B
R. Burgess
Optometrists & Opticians
Castereagh ST
Sydney
Exchange Hotel
Grenfell
Removal of Furniture by Reg Norris
An OCR fragment notes removal of furniture by Reg Norris with care and distance unspecified. It references wood, drying, and a phone number 802, but lacks clear details or complete context.
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Reg Norris
Living Xray claim sparks Hobart court entry
Sister Veni Cooper Mathieson testified in a Hobart court that she possessed a gift as a living Xray capable of locating growths that standard X rays could not reveal, prompting legal consideration of her assertions.
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Hobart
Veni Cooper Mathieson
Firewood for sale cut to any length by ton
Readable fragment states firewood for sale with clean box wood, pricing listed as one ton. Mentions Buttenshaw as a possible vendor. Details are incomplete but indicate a simple local advertisement for wood cutting and sale.
Radiola Wireless promo in June offers free listeners license
Advertisement promotes Radiola Wireless appliances from TRESILIAN & DUN Grenfell and Davia Cup on Radials sets from £16 with easy terms. Free listeners license with every Radiola Wireless purchased during June. Phone 187 LTD.
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Tresilian & Dun
Grenfell
Dak
Tresilian & Dun (Grenfell) Ltd
Forbes Special Stock Sale At Forbes Auction Yard
An Australian report covers a Forbes sale featuring mainly fat and crossbred lambs and wethers. Prices ranged with best crossbreds from 1s 3d to 2s 1d, suckers 12d to 19d, and merino wethers around 12s 9d to 15s 2d. The yarding included 601 fat sheep and 4% vendors.
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Commonwealth Wool and Pro Dive Co
Sydney
W. K. Gannsey
Sen
Butlee
Hotrey
Forbes
Forbes Uec AL
Carrawobioly
Wool Auction Update Amid German Embargo Uncertainty
Shute Bell and Co report Vic Sydney market clearing-up next week due to German embargo signals. Many owners withdrew wool. catalogue of about 309 bales to be offered Wednesday 13 inst. Includes good lines of new wool, crutchings, and oddments. Melbourne sales this week were weak. Brisbane sale opens May 18 with cautious demand and limited assistance from unsettled conditions.
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Shute, Bell and Co. Ltd
Vic
Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Western Lambs Market Report From Condobelia Area
Goldsbrough, More and Co. Ltd report on lamb consignments for Rt. Wootton at Condobelia dated 21/6. Lambs averaged 20 shillings 11 pence at home. market opened strong but eased for plain descriptions. Cattle total 2900 with irregular, easier prime, plain descriptions about 10 shillings cheaper.
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Goldsbrough, More and Co
Ltd
Rt. Wootton
Klieatoo
Condobelia
Homebush
Golfer’s wager on hundred par prompts odd caddie reply
A humorous exchange unfolds as a golfer bets on finishing the round under one hundred. The caddie jokes about needing the five shillings for his old age, highlighting lighthearted golf banter.
Spiritualism condemned as fraud by religious critic
A religious tract denounces Spiritualism as Satanic deception and false comfort, warning that spirits and séances corrupt Christian faith. It cites scripture against contacting the dead, laments modern indifference, and urges reliance on divine revelation to resist perceived demonic influence.
Thames Water Shortage Warns City As Drought Deepens
London faces a grave water crisis after three weeks of drought. The Thames flow at Teddyngton Weir is 519 million gallons daily, below normal, with June’s supply 550000 daily under city needs. The Water Board draws from storages for a seven day reserve. Chairman calls this the worst drought in 150 years of records.
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Rearden
London
Thames
Teddyngton Weir
Water Board
Publication note from Grenfell press duo
Printed and published by Harold Bydney Howarth and Cedric Somerville Howarth at the Main Street office in Grenfell. Listing names and addresses, this notice records local printing activity and attribution for the Grenfell publication.
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Harold Bydney Howarth
Forbes-Street
Gramfell
Cedric Somerville Howarth
Middlestreet
Grenfell
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Shaw & Rush
Star Gully
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Wool Report
Yvonne Webb
Onkaparinga
Hill & Halls, Ltd
House of Values
MEN Help Hospital
Church OF England
Presbyterian Church
Woillin
Gan
J. Walton
Methodist Church
Genfeil
Paine
Vowrs Road
Pam iMy
W. B. Parker
Greenethorpe
Salvation Army
Adjt Unicomb
Seventh Day Adventist
Magonte Hall
St. Joseph's Church
Woods
Buttenshaw
H. H. Bailey
Laggan
New South Wales
Karmond
Hy Wayien
Pg, Hamilton-Foster
Christ
Min
Isak
God
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