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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 29, 1945
Page
2
Residents of Guyra are urged to attend a Shire Council meeting to discuss practical support for Britain by sending food parcels. The piece emphasizes wartime sacrifices, urges surrender of food and coupons, and notes ships returning home with arms and ammo should be repurposed to carry food as a gesture of appreciation.
The city of Penge Aveeag in Atren- Ties boasted the largest refrigerating print in the world. It processes significant livestock, with daily outputs of cattle and sheep and annual totals of millions of animals across cattle sheep and hogs.
A flurry of visitors and service news from Guyra and surrounding areas includes Pte Herb Muldoon returning to his unit after leave with his mother, Pte D Handebo visiting with his wife and son, and Sgt A Stewart rejoining his unit after visiting parents. Also listed are locals home from service, engagements, upcoming weddings, discharges, and relatives visiting from Newcastle, Sydney, and Brisbane.
Guyra Shire Council paid tribute to officers J Richardson N McAllister and C Akin for nine months of service without an engineer. The president Dr W Youman and others praised the staff as loyal Australians who met extra demands and refused extra remuneration.
The G P S Reunion Club held its third dance at Oddfellows Hall on Tuesday with Pete Jones orchestra. The water supply fund gained 11 pounds. total raised to date is 30 pounds toward a 50 pound goal. The club, formed by ex pupils of Central School, aims to aid the school and town and foster social organization among Australians.
In a poorly lit cellar or shed a potato placed in darkness with a small light beam will sprout growths that bend toward the light. The growths will be long and weak yet natural products of limited light exposure.
A meeting in the Oddfellows Hall Guyra convened by the Guyra District Branch of the Northern NSW Farmers Union and sponsored by the Potato Growers Association formed a Co operative Society. The 25 article charter includes farming implements storage buildings water gas electricity and education facilities. Seven directors were elected F C Parsons A F White J M Youman H Starr A B Forsyth R J Fitzroy and H S King with rotating retirements.
Final half yearly examinations at Falconer School conclude this week with notes listing high marks for Class 1 and Class 2 students. Names include R. Cameron DP Levitin N. Cameron Wells L. Marshall and more with marks indicated for each class.
The text notes Ireland’s soil as extremely rich but very moist, making it primarily useful for grazing livestock. It mentions the term treon or similar name appearing in the British Islands as recorded in the source.
The Guyra War Memorial Hospital committee is officially advised that the Hospital Commission has placed 35000 pounds on building estimates. The town aims to memorialize enlisted men and seeks broad support, with appeals to the Commercial Travellers Association for fund drives. A land transfer from the Cox Estate to the Hospital Commission is being arranged, and auxiliary groups report varied cash and war savings holdings.
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