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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 24, 1939
Page
4
A nearly complete farm 4 miles from the railway in the Timbwvlla district presents 230 acres of well worked fallow plus seven well-protected paddocks. Improvements include a nineteen-room dwelling and outbuildings. Terms £9 per? acre. Details note the land is kept in perfect condition with noxious weeds eradicated.
Lot 184 on plan No 1952 Natimuk Crown Allotment 1158 with Mata Street frontage offers a first class, nearly new garage complex. Includes Bartram engine 74 hp, power tools, welding equipment, grinders, lathes, belts, stock and dies, valve tools, jacks, ramps, and an extensive garage accessories stock. Sale by unreserved, inspection invited.
Instructed by A E Rudolpel, tender for 725 acre Gum Grove property 7 miles west of Horsham on Natinink road. Mostly rich black soil, suitable for wheat and fattening, with 200 acres fallow and 130 acres timbered. Homestead six rooms, outbuildings, water, tanks, and garden. Church and School adjoining. Terms arranged. Owner retiring.
A long, satirical tirade critiques sheep keeping and the wool trade, lampooning farmers and politicians. It argues sheep are kept as ornaments, suffer through cruel practices, and are exploited by wool buyers. The piece portrays sheep as profit instruments amid economic critique.
First sailing ship chartered this year is the Swedish training ship Abraham Rydberg. It will load 38 000 haze of dereat at Port Germain and sail for the English Channel after anchoring off Wallaroo on December 10. Charter rate is 25/6 per ton.
Lerida reports General Franco claims reach within 15 miles of Barcelona with 150000 troops. Moroccan forces push toward Sitges as 19 air raids strike, including damage to the British steamer African Mariner. Loyalists brace for battle along Solsona Moresa and Liobregat line. 27 killed in raids.
Dalgety and Co Ltd report a Horsham sheep sale on Friday with 1974 sheep yarded and 1306 sold at an average 10 shillings 8 pence. Top prices included 88 crossbred lambs at 12s9d, 380 Nut crossbred ewes at 12s6d, 124 1-year Polwarth ewes at 12s6d, 163 4-tooth Merino ewes at 11s8d, and Corriedale cross lambs at 8s4d and 6s10d. Owing to dry conditions bidding was restrained but clearance was satisfactory.
Mrs P A Cameron of the Feminist Club recalls meeting famous singer Paul Robeson aboard the Franconia in 1959 and again in later years. She describes him as tall and handsome, in his 30s then, reserved, with a deep melodious voice. He spoke of lifting his people and educating himself, and expressed interest in Australia and aborigines while touring Europe.
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