Manilla Stock Auction Totals Large sale of cattle and sheep
Cattle sales at Manilla Auction averaged strong prices with fat steers and vealers showing solid demand. Notable lots included Warialda 24 year old steers at £7 16s and nine Hereford steers at £5 5s. A total of 420 cattle and 4600 sheep were sold, with store cattle and dairy cows trading 4s to 15s lower in places. Sheep turnout around 700 fat and near 4000 stores with varied prices across breeds and weights. Multiple buyers listed among consignors and bidders.
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Iast Bouyant Silo
Warialda
Jersey
Next Stock Sale at Manilla on Thursday May 7
Entries are now being received for the upcoming stock sale at Manilla scheduled for Thursday May 7. Local farmers and buyers are invited to submit entries and participate in bidding.
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Manilla
Labor labor access rules for Manilla region 1942
V u Byrnes Auctioneer Manilla informs future employers of labor in a list of places where workers must be obtained through police or National Service offices from April 1 1942 unless specially exempted under National Security Man Power Regulations 1942. Exemptions include Commonwealth or State governments, government authorities, and farm or pastoral work on specific agricultural or animal husbandry tasks. Penalties for noncompliance include heavy fines or imprisonment.
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Aven
WMA
Atiunya
Bum Pai
Bogyabri Curlewis
Urrabubula
Gameday
Koot
Ingal
Manilla
Mullatey
Nuntlle
Spring Ridge
Tambar Springs
Wimworth
Upper Horton
Weabonga
Weeks Creele
Willows Tree
Wwe
National Service Office
District National Service Office
Tamworth
Runless
National Security
Crown
National Security Anc
Crippled Troopship Saved After Long Struggle at Sea
A damaged British troopship, crippled by a torpedo, sought refuge at Gibraltar after a perilous 1200 mile voyage from the Azores. Corvettes, destroyers and aircraft chased U-boats, one destroyed in a gun duel, another likely sunk. The ship later reached Gibraltar under her own steam with strong escort support.
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Olont
Gibraltar
Horty
Azores
Surfa
Hooper
Sunderland
Heavy Bean Harvest Reports Record Pod Counts
A Glen imes, a canning bean grower, reports a plant with 170 pods and nearby plants reaching nearly 200 pods. The crop thrived under natural conditions with bent soil in youth, weed control, and a heavy yield overall.
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A. Glen Imes
Homebush Stock Sales and Cattle Prices Decline
Pitt Badgery reports varied stock sales with 57520 sheep and lambs offered, medium condition predominating. Prices fell for sheep and some categories, prime lambs firm, others softer. Cows, bullocks, and vealers quoted with mixed outcomes. Also notes on magnesium discovery, a record cattle sale price, Aboriginal service mentions, and a lightning fatality anecdote.
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Pitt Badgery
Manilla Post Office Outward Mails Schedule
Outward mails from Manilla Post Office close at the evening times with daily departures to Sydney Tamworth Newcastle Barraba Upper Manilla Guunedah Mountain View Fog Rushes Creek Halls Creek Wonga Creek Namoj River and others. Services run Monday to Saturday with specific 6 pm 9 am 10 am and 1 am windows and routes to multiple towns.
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Manilla Post
Eillowing Times
Sydney
Tamworth
T.P.O
North West Down
Tp.o
North, Down
Newcastle
Peida
Barraba
Upper Manilla
Guunedah
Mountain View
Wonga Creek
Namoj River
The Wrong Word in Wartime Message
A Polish pilot in the RAF sought to send a deathly message to a friend in another squadron. He intended to say Gord preserve you but in Polish English slang chose between “preserve” and “pickle.” He picked the wrong word, altering meaning.
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RAF
G Squadron
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Telephone
Canberra
Glitsos & Domino
North West
Post Office
Len Ridgewell
Paursday Yurid SY
Arhia
Burrowa
Mandowa Shire
Manilla Municipality
Express
Cliftons Pty. Ltd
W. L. Filsell
Avill
K. Patterson
Willamby
R. H. Hudson
Moss ‘Vale
Upper
Byrnes
Manilla Newspaper Co
Alton Richmond Macleod
Manilla Street
N.S.W
South Wales
Bur
New
V. J. Byrnes
Oqakhampton
Hereford
Warranella
Wheatlands
Moss Vale
the Pines
Dilkusha
Glen Borab
M.W
M. Lambs
Bell
Vickery, Hagan
Gallagher
Moorehead
Thompson
Nixon
O'Toole Bros
Johnston, Snegsby and Sons
Thritt
Difte
Parr
McKnight
Coote
Smyth
Ried
Coles
White
Russell
Roberts
Copeland Estates
Dorig
Dyson
Sweeney
Chapman
Baldwin
Dowo
V.u.Byrnes
Minister For Labor and National Service
Mit
Owt
Austral
Ae Haanes
Homebush Stock Sales
Youg
Montreal
Ti, M Pidgeon
British Thessay Cattle Society
W. G. Player
Ednaston Zovaxthak
Thorn
ALT
Baddeley
Abov
A. Griffiths
Dorriga
Tign
Ytone
Newcastle Wool Appraisement Centre
Nenco
THE
Pioneer Company
Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co, Ltd
Vox
P.O
N'castle
N'caste
L. Wilshire
Talth Savings Bank
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