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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 18, 1951
Page
4
A Memorial Institute committee met Friday with L P Dutton as chair. They will contact a Sydney firm for billiard table repairs and arrange front door airing. Window sashes will receive attention and the committee reports a credit balance of £98 79 11.
Mr. F Quin presents a council report detailing inspections of shops and premises in Guyra. Most are clean. owners urged to fix minor faults, spray blackberries and noxious weeds, and improve road and footpath cleanliness. Typhoid case disinfected at New Valley Road camp with neighbours advised to cleanse paths.
A village sports day in Aberfoyle on December 30 raised £104 7s 2d for the district War Memorial Hospital. Winners across races included R Kelly's Snapper and J Ellis's Shamrock, with events like pony races, novice bending, open flags, and a whistling variety program. A dance in Aberfoyle Hall ended the day with Reeves's orchestra providing music and thanks extended to all helpers and donors.
Shakuntala Devi, a nineteen year old from Bangalore, earns the nickname The Human Comptometer for solving complex calculations with machine-like speed. She once answered a problem before a comptometer at Madras English College and later impresses BBC listeners declaring her ability to compute roots up to the fourth and aiming for the twenty third. She describes her rapid insight and preference for mental work over formal life pursuits.
Printed and published by Roy Leslie Blake of 320 Moss Armidale for the Armitale Newspaper Company Armidale.
Five women are employed as jeep drivers at Hill Field Salt Lake City to guide landing planes to parking positions. Bright yellow jeeps with Follow Me signs direct pilots and ground crews.
Owing to material shortages especially gal vanised piping fibro roofing and tank iron building activities in the Guyra Shire during 1950 were limited. Permits issued totaled £44 067 with Rural 123 850 dwellings Guyral £9 900 Tingha £1 000 Convent School sheds £352 and related actions £1 465.
Church services listed for Guyra and nearby towns include Morning Eucharist at 8 am and 10 am family service, with afternoon and evening rites at Black Mountain, Pith, Ollera, and Reiby. Presbyterian worship at Ben Lomond and Llanurling, Guyra evening services led by ministers G Mathieson and Robert Bell Sun Jan 21.
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