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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 23, 1951
Page
3
A quirky line describes the electric eel of the Amazon River as four-fifths of its body containing electricity generating tissue and emitting discharges of 30 walts repeatedly.
Veteran printer Dan McLaren longtime foreman at the Armidale Chronicle and Armidale Express has died at the Armidale and New England Hospital aged 77 after a fortnight illness. Born at Gara Station he began in 1886 at Armidale Chronicle, served 65 years in printing, was a noted scorer of sports records and a trusted official in coursing. He is survived by his wife Queenie Foran, a brother Thomas, and two sisters. Funeral service at St Mary Cathedral with burial in Armidale Cemetery Father Shanahan officiating.
At the New England Trout Acclimatisation Society meeting the der Renting River Hatchery near Innes was inspected. The £3500 facility will handle three quarters of a million trout ova this season with six new fingerling ponds planned to raise fry before eel predation. Vigilance officers were appointed to combat illicit fishing and patrols were requested across streams.
Thomas Cook, founder of Cook's Tours, began as a gardener's helper and conceived budget rail trips. In 1863 he organized Britain's first Swiss excursion and, after the Franco-Prussian War, led his agency in arranging the first American Freemasons visit to Paris.
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