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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 19, 1929
Page
1
Message indicates no issue next week and mentions publication of page on Thursday with dates and readers addressed. Includes garbled lines about Heartive and Xuan Livestinge with a calendar reference for 19H.
Holiday notices indicate Goyre Peat Office closed on Christmas Day with partial operations. Mail and banking services resume standard hours next day with limited post office hours and bank transactions advised.
A chronicle of Christmas week religious services across churches and halls. The program includes Advent and Christmas Eve and Day Holy Communions at Aberfoyle Hall Brockley Gayra and other venues with times noted. Presbyterian, Methodist and other denominations schedule morning and evening services, special moria soloist performances and December 27 evening services.
Rensha leads the Quinleo Trophy-B event with a score of 61 followed by Wy Dean 61 and Dison 61. Tirth 59 Booth 55 Smithers 54 Legge Sd Sreden G1 Neal 60 Hill 19 Dowdell 43 Ayre 42.1 Dean 37 Ayshford 16 trailing.
The Goyra team prepare to play Bendarra in the Juergens Shield match at Bon darrm on Saturday. Team members listed include L, RB, Handebo, C, Martin, Bourke, Pareous, Smithers, Velgur, Youman, Mull gan, and Nartiv among others.
Mias Newberry trains at Tamworth district Hospital and leads in a Memorial Institute billiards contest. Teams the Potters and Cannons vie to halt the Cannons as the Potters push a late rally. The event closes Saturday night with the highest point total winning. An error in last week’s results misidentified several names.
Sydney reports detail a fatal hut fire near Tunbarumba in which four children ages seven and younger died. Their mother Mrs A Graham had left them unattended while visiting her husband at Sopparella Station. the hut caught fire and the children perished as smoke and flames overwhelmed them.
Classified notice offers a seven drawer drophead Singer sewing machine in good sewing order. Bargain price, apply Argus offices Goyra.
Will be held at Gandy Creek boxing day with six horse races on an improved track. Trophies up to four pounds for the event. The Clod takes responsibility. Nett proceeds to be shared between Everett, Clod, and the proposed Lotal Hospital if funds reach, else Armidale Hospital. B J Wittiass Hoa Sec.
A fragment reads as a brief but unclear note about a robbery incident involving a suspect or items described as dolls and tyres. Names and details are fragmented. The legible parts suggest a police or public notice context without a full narrative.
Advanced Grace Rite Pryor achieved 96 per cent in shorthand diploma. Ivy Alfords and Kathleen McDonnell scored 96 and 97 per cent in intermediate and elementary levels. Doris Moore 95 per cent and Irene Mitchell 99 in typing. The ceremony lists Thelms Mather Lily Newberry Veronica Ryan and others as top performers.
Alburt Sweeney of Kentucky was severely injured after being gored by a cow while driving a herd from the padduck to the milkhog yard. He crawled toward his home before being found by his wife and taken to Armidale in a critical condition.
At yeodday’s meeting Council heard minutes read and confirmed. The Engineer reported on roads and tanks while six stock were impounded and three infectious disease cases noted. Licenses granted for motor taxi and petrol tank on Ollera street. Green reelected President for eleventh term.
Local and general notices report two Moalligan sisters Sheila and Ella winning recent exams at Hiltedala School. The board commends supervisory committee members A A Brown, Gillies, E Kelly, McEvoy, Phelan, Kable, Youman, Hoy. Railway updates announce reserved Glen Innes and Brisbane trains and daily goods transit improvements. Churchill criticizes Labour policy amid UK dinner remarks. Granville Byrle enters House of Commons at a Bradford dinner with industrialists criticizing recent measures.
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