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Newspaper
Inverell Times
Location
Inverell, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 17, 1927
Page
4
Catalog offers discounts on women garments and children sleepwear including Ladies Wool Jersey Jumpers and Jacey Undervests with marked down sale prices, along with Velour Coats, Bloomers, Undervests and Mercetised Spencers. Children flannel frocks and nightwear also discounted with reduced prices.
Clearance sale of dress fabrics in shades from shy blue to navy including Ripple Cloths and Coloured Vinceyette. Featured items include All Silk Crepe de Chine, Black Satin Italian Cloth, and All Pure Wool Dress Flannel with prices cut from usual rates to sale prices.
An ad lists white woollen blankets 72x34 at 27 shillings sixpence per pair, 40x72 at 39 sixpence per pair, and 04 large sizes with varied prices. Travel rugs in all wool show sale prices from 9 to 179 shillings, with many items marked as special or excellent quality across multiple sizes and colors.
A dealer advertises a bulk sale on textiles including 16 inch Brown and Red Stripe Towelling at sale prices per yard, Plain Grey Calico British make at a clearance price, Linen Osnaberg tea towel fabric with sale price per yard, Blue and White Sun nee Hed Tekion premium fabric at reduced rates, Dark Grey or Natural Flannel offered at a special value, White or Cream fabrics and Stripe Flannelettes in series quality, Grey Herringbone Sheeting and other fabrics with sale price per yard and per half yard. The note lists usual prices, sale prices, and yardage details for numerous items.
An advertisement offers men’s all wool tweed overcoats Raglan style with full skirt and belt in all sizes. Prices usual 55, sale price 96. other items include coats, sweaters, pyjama suits, golf shirts, silk ties, cashmere half hose, boys suits and hose with clearance pricing and varied colors.
The 33rd battalion reunion in Bingara, NSW, marked ten years since the armistice with a large turnout of diggers. About 400 attended the banquet, including 115 Ure veterans, with dignitaries such as Colonel White and local officials present. The event featured a long recounting of the battalion’s formations and frontline memories from 1908, when the unit sailed from Australia on May 4 and fought in harsh conditions near the mines.
The article reports a golf trophy event with a series of players listed as down or downing in various matches. Winners include Mise A. Clooman and Miss A. Cloonan, with several other competitors such as Mrs. Allison, Mrs. Campbell, Miss Hunt, Mrs. Wellford, Mrs. Newbitt, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Boyd, Mrs. Wandley, and Miss A. Cloonan noted among the results. The handwriting is garbled, limiting full clarity on scores and exact placements.
Delegates at the Cooperative Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries of New South Wales concluded their conference with a tasting of foreign butters. Samples from Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Serbia, Argentina, and other regions were evaluated for flavour, texture, and aroma. The discussions highlighted varying quality and the need for strict standards in butter imports.
Two Melbourne women Miss J Roberts on and Miss Howell plan a grand overland motor trip from Melbourne on June 2 in a Lancia to Darwin and back via Adelaide Western Queensland Heishaor and Sydney. They promise to respect speed limits and aim to prove Australian women can tackle cross continent travel.
The district notes a farewell to Mrs Bannister a longtime member of the Journal board as colleagues hear her express regret over parting and reflect on the goodwill built with press associations and co workers during her tenure.
Widespread regret spread through Armidale on Monday when news arrived that Mr George W Hipgrave had died in his sleep. He returned from Sydney recently and after a motor outing on Sunday appeared well, but died peacefully in his sleep Monday morning. He was long a leading figure in local journalism and public life, retiring as controller of the Armidale Express, and served on the New England Building Society board. Survived by son William Hipgrave and daughter Mrs P. Basehe, with a large family in Australia and England. predeceased by wife Emily Hogarth.
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