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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 05, 1936
Page
4
Special sales and event notices list multiple offerings with dates and locations, including annual and exclusive sales. The fragment mentions June 9 to 13 with special savings events and promotional terms across several locations and dates, indicating a broader sale calendar.
In Melbourne on Thursday three armed masked bandits stopped a motor van in Nicholson street Fitzroy. They seized £1400 intended for Goold & Porter Pty boot makers to pay workers. The van driver and guard were disarmed and the money taken in a bag before the criminals fled in a sedan, eluding police.
Two daughters Monica and Betty Hardy of Cape Everard lighthouse were missing since Monday morning while fetching cows. They were found Wednesday in an exhausted state. Betty required urgent medical aid and was carried in a chair on poles for five miles across sand to a car to Cann River where a doctor awaited. Ten men helped haul the chair through the sand hills.
A Corvus Charity Timex study shows 8.2 percent of respondents prefer newspapers as the least influential advertising medium. The battery xenon ad is named the most objectionable, with 67 percent opposing it. respondents ranked ads and media types in a list including newspapers theater magazines and mail.
Miss Annie Lock of the United Aborigines Mission has spent over 30 years in remote Australia, now in Victoria, continuing field work amid harsh outback conditions. She has fed and clothed aborigines with government aid and her own resources, endured shipwrecks and dangerous encounters, and blazed a trail for other missionaries across New South Wales, Western Australia, Central Australia, and Darwin, before planning to resume duties at Golden Soak after a long hiatus away from white companionship.
The Premier pledged a substantial sum for new buildings and equipment at Melbourne Technical College to a deputation seeking a £250,000 grant. He blamed postwar apathy toward technical education as a reason for the request.
Canberra reports that Post Office profits for 1931-2 are expected to reach about £10,000,000 by year end. A Cabinet section plans a strong push to reduce postage rates when the Budget is prepared next month. Rates were raised to 2d during a low mood as an emergency measure.
Poem reflecting on the livestock trade and social satire. The speaker likens the sheep to a comrade and partner in a shared cycle from wool to cloth and commerce. It critiques class excess as luxury goods and wealth signifiers parade around, contrasting rustic origins with urban wealth.
Local agency on Wilson Street Horehai and Warrucknabeal Beutah promotes agents for Mercantile Mutual Fire Insurance Prudential Life Assurance Mutual South Australia and other firms. Listings include machinery, harvester and pest control agents, petrol and kerosene products, and automotive parts for Oldemoblie Vaushall Bedford CALG.
In July most Viewman taxpayers face new payroll tax stamps and Form Bi filings for 106 percent income statements and deductions. The 1940s era tax department reports a surge in mailed returns, postal contributions, and mechanical envelope problems hindering efficient processing. Officials note prior mail volumes and a costly handling bottleneck despite investments to speed up opening and routing of thousands of letters daily.
A final sale of the regular selling season featured a catalogue of 1850 bales mainly crutchings lambs and past wools from earlier catalogues plus merinos and bulk pools. Local mills and the Continent showed satisfactory demand while home trade was quiet and Japan did not operate. Prices were firm for good wools and crutchings though some short and burr y sorts rose slightly with top price 22d for delegate district NSW wool WW Delegate.
The Victorian mid-winter wool sale opened in Melbourne and concluded in Geelong with a 2274 bale catalogue. Priced mostly for crutchings and oddments, few fleece lots, no Japanese竞争, Yorkshire buyers quiet, local mills strong, and top prices 22 1 4d for merino wools.
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co Ltd reports its final Melbourne sale of the season, offering 1689 bales. The catalog covers bulk-classed oddments, crutchings, and lambs with keen competition for the latter, prices for top grease wool down 3 to 10 percent, Yorkshire quiet and Japan absent. Total sales for the season reach 70,333 bales. Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd also submits a roughly 1300 bale catalogue for their final sale of the season, mainly crutchings and odd items with some early shorn wool.
NSW state botanist E Cheel told the Linnean Society in Sydney that a new weed named Paraguay burr has been found near Glen Innes and could threaten sheep farming if not quickly eradicated. Seed sent from Glen Innes shows burrs similar to Bathurst burr and Noogoorn burr. it could lower wool value and spread widely. Cheel urged farmers to heed Agricultural Gazette notices to control the weed before it becomes a major problem.
The Australian wool sale summary outlines mixed demand with Japan reducing participation, Yorkshire and Continental support modest. Dalgety reports listing 1400 bales featuring crutchings and fall lines. prices for several districts and brands are noted amid overall spirited demand from Australian mills. Large-quantity lots and excluded catalogs are mentioned as part of the sale.
The Archdeacon of Ballarat will preach at all services on Sunday. A juvenile fancy dress parade is planned for Wednesday June 1 at the Parish Hall. Methodist, Presbyterian, and other church services are announced with Holy Communion times, conductors, and venue details across Horsham Lux, Longeronyng College, and local colleges. Donations and committee roles are noted for church support activities and youth events at Veesbyyiriua and nearby towns.
A fragmentary notice describes a theater gathering linked to a recently formed committee in Hondige Tring with sessions starting in March. It mentions Noah and urgent pastoral study, with unclear details about attendance or local officials.
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