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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 03, 1946
Page
4
Listings show varied prices for eggs bacon butter cheese honey beeswax bran hay straw and antimony with unit quotes and regional deliveries. Quality and grade distinctions appear for eggs potatoes peas and chaff while metal antimony prices reflect different percent ranges and delivery to Sydney.
The schedule lists Sunday services for the Church of England Presbyterian and Methodist congregations. Abbamurra 11 am Holy Communion, H.C. Ben Lomond 3 pm Guyra 7 30 pm, Bishop Moyes presiding 8 am Abbey Cricket In Abbey Crern. Presbyterian Guyra 11 am Communion Black Mountain 3 pm Rev E N McKie. Methodist Brockley 3 pm Guyra 7 30 pm Rev Morra Young.
The Admiralty canceled or suspended orders for three 40 000 ton carriers to be named Gibraltar Malta and Africa costing £8 000 000 each with fly off planes. Gibraltar would have been built at Barrow Malta at John Browns Ebanks yards Africa at Fairfield's yard on the Clyde. Two large British carriers under construction likely won t reach the fleet. Hercules and Leviathan, launched earlier, have been towed to a naval dockyard or await orders for their completion if needed.
Agricultural notes outline sowing from October to December with 30 lb per acre seed, soil prep, inoculation, and fertiliser. Recommendations cover drill settings for 10 lb per acre, harrowing to manage weeds and crust, hare control, rotation with clover or lucerne, and harvest methods using a header when available.
A Tingha public meeting formed the Citizens Play Centre Committee to establish a children's play centre during the coming Christmas holidays. Chair E Dettmann and secretary J Swain head a group seeking funding from the National Fitness Organisation via Guyra Shire Council to cover supervisors' salaries and milk for attendees. Local sites Tingha Palais and Young Park were chosen with aims to obtain equipment from sporting bodies and milk through the District Inspector of Schools.
A Tingha Club tennis weekend drew 26 players despite bad weather. Winners were Mrs K Stark with 29 games and Clarrie Jones with 35. The women's trophy was a seven piece salad set and the men's trophy hose and handkerchiefs. A post event match at Young Park featured teams led by T McArdle and S Beckett, ending 4 sets apiece.
Farmers in Armidale report header adjustments needed to save seed as beans ripen yellow and fall. Yields reach over 20 bushels per acre in plots with Lincoln Dunfield Richland varieties. national averages around 20.7 in 1939 and 16.4 over ten years. A local grower averages 10 bushels, Patch variety is late maturing and best yielder. No major pests yet, quarantine of imported seed to New England planned. contact Mr W Bourne, Agricultural Instructor, 169 Beardy Street Armidale, soon.
Alderman J A Barraclough of Rochdale aged 7 declared himself too old to act as returning officer for the municipal elections. Alderman W Crosley aged 84 was appointed in his stead.
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