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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 20, 1947
Page
4
Special mover stamps for peas offered by the Argus Office to save writing pea labels. Printed and published by Roy Leslie The Argus Co. for Faulkner and local readers.
A Saturday Guyra All Heights race meeting drew over 600 spectators and £115 in gate receipts. Miss Pat ODonnell, the Sports Queen, led a successful day with multiple wins by Bob Bundle ridden by D Layton, while Old Bill collapsed at the post in the First Scrubbers Race. The event featured fast times such as 37 seconds for three furlongs and 4F times around 48 seconds, with plans for an early revival of regular meetings.
A headmaster in the United Provinces has invented a small portable voting machine. It records votes automatically with a meter that shows the total as polling ends. The device uses a metallic sphere dropped by the voter to advance the tally.
The United States and China sign an agreement under the Fulbright Act to spend 20 000 dollars from American surplus property sales to support students in Chinese and American schools. The fund finances travel and studies for Chinese and American students for up to 20 years, aiding education abroad and in the United States.
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