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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 04, 1950
Page
2
A dense classified page lists tasks from tree cutting and house rental to typing work, poultry, lost gloves and wallet, bike theft, and various sales. Entries include WANTED sewing repairs, ALTERATIONS to ladies garments, FOR SALE boats pianos carts and furniture, and MARKET listings for produce and goods. Many entries reference Horsham and nearby towns with street names and contact details.
A scanned sale column lists items for auction at Young's Market including a two wheel trailer, beds, chairs, hardware, rifles, lamps, stoves, and farm trailers with immediate delivery. It also advertises used cars and tractors for sale from Horsham Stawell Beulah Chevrolet and other sellers, with models from 1927 to 1948, testable options, and contact details in Horsham Portland and Stawell areas.
The 11th wool sale series ended after a catalogue of 1450 bales. Demand from the domestic market pushed prices higher across lower to coarser grades, with bulk fleece and Merino crutchings showing gains. Notable quotes included Comebmck 1184, Lincoln J, Merino shillings 109fd, and crossbred up to 45d.
Ford truck 4 ton late model well shod really good 450 pounds. 35 cream Vauxhall door section run 22000 miles full 12 miles registration red leather upholstery Inspect International Service A Garth. 15 tyne Rawlins Stump Jump Leatilier 7500 miles H A Roe. Wilson St Horsham. Phone 246. 1 ton truck chains 700 x 20 price 200 apply J Goode. Donald Bank. FOR SALE–Ford Truck 4-ton late model. 30000 miles owner buyin: car price 200. FOR SALE–1 wt truck chains 32 x 6 or 700 x 20 cycle ax pen.
Listing of used motorcycles including Ariel 500 Hunter Norton Jawa BSA Royal Enfield and others with prices and mileages. Also promotes a Lanz Bulldog crude oil tractor 15 30 hp in good order with contact details at Riley's Motor Cycles 238 Gray Street Hamilton and Alf Mitchell 36 Roberts Avenue.
The final 1949-50 wool sale held in Geelong on June 29 offered 2870 bales mainly comprising trutching and bulk classed wool, with a few autumn shorn clips from Darling River, attracting keen competition for faultless wools though short stapled fleece and vegetable fault lots sold around 10 percent below last Geelong sale. Principal buyers were local mills, Bradford, France and America. Geelong handled 78,212 bales for the season, up 8,952 from prior year.
A 1949 50 wool sale report from Dennys and Lascelles notes the final sale held in es jong on Thursday June 29 with 2 600 bales and bulked wools chiefly from Northern Victoria. Prices varied with top bulk wool at 1 tor, and overall average price not indicated as weakening in Melbourne.
Irregular bidding and price lists mark a Horsham wool sale report with buyers and growers. Top prices included Meriva fleece and other district lots. crutchings, lambs, and crossbred fleece noted with several consignments from Willaura, Dunkeld, Balmoral, and nearby sheds.
A memorial event in London marked the centenary of Oliver British, credited with uncovering the high altitude layer that enables radio, radar, television and long distance telephony. The gathering honored a pioneer of electrical communications whose work shaped modern signaling and space science.
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