Control of Reserves and Route Adjustments Discussed
The Tamworth district board debated reserves under its control after a report by the stock inspector. Proposals favored diverting traffic away from main roads by approving routes for travelling stock and considering reductions in reserves with a ministerial warning that stock interests must remain protected. The board will defer final decision to a fall meeting with four directors present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tamworth
Mie
Tee Hs
Hawker
M. Park
Stork
Drefer
Gand
Tums
Elephants in Combat At North Coast Ring
A male and female elephant belonging to Sole Brothers' circus fought fiercely at a North Coast ring near Townaville. The clash, heard miles away, shook the neighborhood until handlers separated the animals and moved them into separate trucks ahead of the show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ona Levin
Girt
North Coast
Twa Anim
Sole Brothers' Circus
North Queensland
Townaville
Miler Snutiud
Tally St
Manilla readers hear case for coke oven tar in roads
L J Cowie of Brok en Hill Proprietary writes to urge readers to consider coke oven tar as superior for road surfaces. He cites Department specs, depth limits, pressure analysis, and long term success in Armidale and Ble Mountains regions, noting many councils and shires adopted coke over tar with positive results and no imported bitumen used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. J. Cowie
Broken Hill
By-Products Proprietary Ltd
New South Wales
Department of Main Roads
Marilla
Manila
Armidale
Brat Por Ou
Wralla
Ble
Manilla
Mt. Victoria
Ratharet
Dungog
Gosford
Wyong
Blandford
Murrurundi
Dumaresq Shire
Mt Malcolm gold mine rises again at Crow Mountain
Twenty miles from Manilla, Mt Malcolm near Crow Mountain, an old goldfield, shows renewed activity. The Mt Malcolm company has taken over and built a tenhead battery driven by a suction gas plant that yielded just under an ounce per ton in a 20 ton trial. Tunnels reach rich Dodger, Poitrel, and South Dodger lenses, with plans to drive further and stope ore overhead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manilly
Mt. Malcolm
Crow Mountain
Malcolm
Im Mountain
Mt. Malcolm Company
Radham
Party
McKenzie and McNair
McKenzie
Dodger Lode
District Roads Send Shire Roads Back To Normal
Wet weather has caused extensive damage to district roads across the Shire. Gully washouts at Byrnes Gap and poor conditions on West Manilla to Five Mile and New Mexico turnoff to Boral hamper travel. The Shire gang is repairing the damage and expects normal roads soon with better weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byrnes
West Manilla
Five Mile
New Mexico
Boral
Shire Gang
Australian soldier unearths 1882 battle bayonet in Egypt
A Bayonet, described as the weapon used at Tel el Kebir in 1882, was found by an Australian soldier in Egypt in 1916. The dagger came to Melbourne, where the soldier's wife mounted it atop a garden feature. Recently purser W Barfoot bought it aboard a liner at Port Melbourne, claiming it was the Tel el Kebir blade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Tel el Kebir
Melbourne
W. Barfoot
Corfnhen
Port Melhouene
Tel al Kehir
Manicea Agricultural Society Works Invitation Notice
An agricultural society invites bids for specified works. Details are incomplete in the visible text but indicate procurement of services or contracts related to farm or county projects. Further readable fragments are needed to identify scope, bidders, deadlines, and awarding authority.
Notice to owners of trotters meet at show ground
Owners and enthusiasts are invited to meet the Trotting Committee at the show ground at 4 p.m. sharp on Saturday August 19 to discuss grounds and trotting matters.
Unemployed Relief Tax Return Request Issued in Sydney
The Commissioner of Taxation calls on every employer to furnish a return by August 24, 1933, at Warwick Building Hamilton Street Sydney. The form requests total employees and numbers in specified salary groups for the week ended July 22, 1933 for statistical use in potentially rearranging unemployment relief tax rates under the Prevention of Relief of Employment Act. Four injured in a Banks Town crash. three were en route to a funeral and one to the races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner of Taxation
Warwick
Hamilton Street
Sydney
Liverpool
Chappel Roads
Bankstown
Joan
Albino Wallaby Showcased at Taronga Park Zoo
A six month old white wallaby from the Macleay River district was presented by Mrs BD Gill of East Kempsey to Taronga Park Zoo. It is the first albino wallaby on display, tame and milk-drinking, with mixed reception from other animals in the enclosure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macleay River
BD. Gill
East Kempsey
Taronga Park Zoo
Melbourne
Australia
Tom Clarke
Campbelltown
Tasmania
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Post Office
Harry Grady
Office
AML. & F. Coy. Ltd
Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd
R. J. Colvin
Manilla & District News
G. Malone
Jana A. Watts
Watts
Malone
Loseby
Til. A. Watts
C. Grant
Buahby
E. North H
L. J. Bignall
R. Loweby
E. Doak
R. Griffith
W. Bignall
H. Glen
W. Carlyon
Carlyon
J Elliott
Arenas
Wood
Od Oomghs
Calés
Manicea Agricultural
SpcreTy
Poe
Notioe
Trottera
Rochfort
A.pea
F.us
Bereta
Junior Farmer's
A.C. Brown
Ak, Thomas
Saint
Canberra
Wallaby
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