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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 10, 1936
Page
2
Wool and Rayon Knicker listings include K317 Pure Wool Lace Pannelled and other variants with Lastex bands and ribbed legs. Also offered are E311 Wool and Rayon Vest Cumfi-Cut and E391 Wool and Rayon Nightdress with long sleeves and panel front. Sizes 8W and W noted. brassiere top vest features loom lace and silk picot trim. Prices not shown.
A cool change followed rain on Tuesday with extremely cold conditions Wednesday morning. Manilla district, especially Keepit way, recorded 80 to 100 points of rain on Thursday. Also note April 15 annual meeting at Ruvhes Creek Hall.
A well attended meeting at the school chaired by Rev. A. Battersby discusses playground seating, the mathematics vacancy filled by Mins Laviman, and inquiry into school lighting costs. The association plans to buy books for parents and children, seeks concert help for P and C funds, and schedules a Fancy Dress Ball. A Namoi Bridge accident prompts a council ask for faster safety measures and warning signs.
Entries for the Manilla Carnival near 100 riders with ex Junior State Champion and Junior Champion of the north among participants. A dance to be held in Memorial Hall at night with North's Demhestre providing music and supper. A free bus will run from Attunga.
Coroner J D Kennedy presided at Manilla Court House into the death of Una Urquhart aged 5 and a half from a fractured skull after a crash on Manilla bridge. Evidence referenced car speed 20 to 30 mph, no warning signs on bridge, and a pedestrian footbridge obscured by a stone structure.
The Gripu Cup opens on April 15 with matches set between Presbyterians Catholic No 2 Catholic No 1 St Andrew's Elliott's and byes noted. Handicaps include Elliott's scratch Catholic No 1 four games St Andrew's twelve Catholic No 2 eighteen and Presbyterians twenty four.
The Manilla vital statistics for the first quarter show births 21 with 15 males and 6 females and deaths 4. A fatality near a bridge is blamed on a obstructing stone structure while the coroner and police express sympathy and pledge action. In the cup final Waratah and Garthowen open play with Waratah scoring 106 and Garthowen replying. Mellrath bowls 20 overs with six wickets for 41 while Horace Coote clears 60 for Waratah.
The Hailway offers excursion fares to Sydney and a 2 third fare on trains leaving daily through Monday April 13 inclusive. Tonight the Manilla train departs at 8 32 p.m. An altered arrival time will occur next week with trains arriving Manilla at 9 59 a.m. on Tuesday Wednesday and Saturday April 14 15 and 18.
Dainty parchment lamp shades offered at marked reductions with various price points. Special bargains include two shillings eleven pence and sixpence options among others, from M C Mackenzie and Sons Ltd for value.
A C Veness and Son conduct a public auction on Saturday April 18 at 2 30 pm for the entire shop fittings of Mr E M Lovegrove at his Manilla street shop. Cash terms.
Excursion trains at single fare plus one third return will run from Manilla on April 22 23 and 24 to Sydney for Anzac Day events at Sydney and Newcastle. Tickets on sale for two months.
Easter Monday social at Wongo Creek Hall with Wicks Band for Church of England members. Golf Hotel notes club stroke winner B Cadden 64 net, runner up Reg Chapman 73. Gunnedah P and A Society annual show set for April 21 22 23 with £600 prize money. Snooker tournament aims post Easter at Mechanics Institute with a long first round draw list.
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