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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 31, 1934
Page
3
Excursion train on August 30. Methodist Flower Show on September 1. Ambulance Ball on September 4. P and C Ball on September 19. Returned Soldiers Gymkhana on October 24.
Sutherland of Rowan street Manilla advertises up to date plant and guaranteed first class job. He claims to supply all kinds of laws gulleted or wmade and sharpened with benches made to order.
Tweed Lismore Pasturex Board stock inspector Mr C J Wooller links calf blindness on a Broken Head farm to eating corkwood bark or leaves. He notes the tree caused a child’s death at Bellingen last year and that its juice was used to make a liquor for aborigines. Leaves were used to stupefy eels. Wooller cites alkaloids used abroad and a Byron Bay incident involving dried heaven. The report also notes Miss Minnie Britt’s body found in Peel River near Tamworth Bridge after mining began Tuesday.
Australia’s outback history recalls boundary riders and their loyal horse and dog. Lonely duty left weekly rations in a hat, weeks apart from homestead, with many losing their minds and facing thirst in barren hills. A rider’s body was found slain by thirst, horse guarding the dead, dog shot after the scent of death.
A garbled report recounts a midweek market scene with scattered names and odd phrases. It hints at sales, belts, and a mix of people in a general venue but details remain unclear and fragmentary.
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