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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 06, 1954
Page
2
A compact price list for mens Elastra Strap pic-n-pic sports trousers in fawn and grey. Includes Gabardine option and several price markings such as £5 19s 6d and £5 10s 6d. Details are terse and include fabric variants and numeric costs.
A catalog of royal and general titles with prices in shillings. Items include The Coronation Book Queen Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh The Royal Family Picture Annual The History of Westminster Abbey Princess Margaret Coronation Day Prince Charles and Princess Anne Great Events of the Royal Year 1953 and Enid Blyton works among others. Prices range from 1 shilling to 29 shillings with many entries and multiple titles listed.
A green wool suit by Guidi of Florence features leopard skin trim along the pockets and skirt line. The item appears at a club street stall on Saturday with vendor Jon B. Carett.
Personal in Nimmetabel Mr and Mrs Mac Turner holiday in Manilla. Mr and Mrs Stan Davis and family holiday with Mr and Mrs G Abbertfield. Mrs J Tuffrey an inmate of Tamworth hospital. Master Reon Witherdin home from hospital. Messrs Stewart Wicks and Jer have returned from holidays. Mr and Mrs Alf Chapman of Halls Creek and Mr and Mrs W Molloy of Strathfield holidaying at Coolangatta. Mr and Mrs W Coupland on holidays.
The Manilla branch of the F and S Association met at the Mechanics Institute after the annual meeting. Officials discussed a proposed Grain Elevator Board with specific representation from growers, railway, and treasury, favoring growers chosen by grower organisations rather than government appointment. They opposed appointing a Northern Zone Secretary, citing no extra benefits and cost. A letter of thanks was sent to Mandowa Shire Council for road work on Boggabri road. The president reported attending Zone Conference at Gunnadah and Armidale, and noted poor turnout at a film evening run by Zone Organiser Russell Scott.
The Spastic Centre seeks 80 000 pounds in 1954 to finish a new hostel for country spastic children at Frenchs Forest near Manly. Delays risk denying treatment and training, with construction already under way and the center relying on voluntary contributions and campaigns to fund the project.
The listing outlines NSW Country Regionals events and radio program times from Sunday April through Saturday, noting performances by Country Music sessions, concerts, and church services. It also includes a fundraising appeal for a Spastic Centre Hostel to house and treat rural children with mothers staffing the facility. the appeal seeks support from country communities in New South Wales.
Twenty Boy Scouts attended the Britten Wood camp under Group Scoutmaster Hall. Cars loaned by Wilkinson, Goldthorpe, Moore and Egan aided transport. The scouts learned bushcraft and camp craft, built camp furniture, and competed with four patrols. Crow patrol led by Peter Moore won. The Manilla Scouts express gratitude to Mr Wilkinson for his generous donation.
Manilla Rotary Club outlines a programme to raise funds aiding the Manilla Boy Scouts Ugly Man competition with events including a barbecue on May 1 and a street stall on June 12. Tenders are invited for hospital ward painting with specifications available from the undersigned. Williams of Tamworth will visit Swinton's in Manilla on April 8 1954. Land for sale in Southbrook offers two ideal building blocks near facilities.
The monthly meeting of the Assa is scheduled at the Hughes residence on Friday next 9 April at 8 pm Hon Sec Goldthorp. For sale 6 months old pullets AIS and Austra lorps apply 49 Names St Tenders invited for erection of extensions to the Club House of the Manila Bowling Club Plans and specifications from Secretary Mr W Martin phone 102 or J Moore phone 266.
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