27 Sep 1945
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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 27, 1945
Page
1
Variety of floats entered for the big Monday carnival at the show ground with stewards in charge. Winners announced at the ball to close the outing. Donations totalling several pounds received for the sports fund. A working bee will meet Sunday. Monday gazetted as a public holiday for the Guyra Shire.
Apricot trees in the Leeton New South Wales district will receive plant hormone injections to delay flowering for three to four weeks. About 90,000 trees will be treated over the coming months at the Leeton cannery’s request after last year’s frost wiped out 40,000 tons. American plant breeder George Warner, visiting Australia at the invitation of the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, will assist, including experiments to frostproof 15 apricot trees, speed up crops by three weeks, and treat 3500 tomato plants to boost yield by 20 to 40 percent and advance harvest by three weeks. If successful, 800,000 tomato plants may be treated in a year. other prospects include tung oil, pecan, and macadamia nuts. Hormones in growing plants enable precise control of growth.
A plea urging readers to join the Argus as regular subscribers, offering a 13 per year rate and promising ongoing district reporting. The message invites support to sustain local news coverage and timely alerts for the community.
Mrs Atkin named delegate for the Tenterden Wandsworth Ollera branch of the Hospital Auxiliary to attend the general conference in Sydney next month. The branch also decided to affiliate with United Hospitals Auxiliaries and discussed future representation on the Guyra District War Memorial Hospital Board. A float for the sports day procession at Guyra was to be arranged. Donations totaling £85 16s were received from local supporters, including Cameron, Jackson, and Mulligan families, toward fund allocations.
In 1939 about 55 000 tractors worked on farms in dia. Now the number exceeds 150 000, reflecting rapid adoption of mechanization and increased farm productivity across the region.
Malpas street residents Mr and Mrs E H Rudd received a letter from their son L/Cpl Ted Rudd who has been released after being a POW in Burma. He reports malaria and good health aside from rags, notes planes dropping supplies, mentions fellow soldiers Ron McLean and Dudley Mulligan, and hopes to return home to Singapore then Bangkok for work at a depot.
Chief Justice Sir Edmund Herring awarded £36,915 to Edmund Harold Hunter of St. Kilda against the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd and Maurice John Kelly the Bourke Street branch manager. The case stemmed from alleged fraud connected with Hunter’s financial dealings and the late ALG Bar. The estate of Bar was declared bankrupt.
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