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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 03, 1935
Page
4
A gardener shares a wide range of seasonable advice including planting dahlias gladioli and stock for winter and early spring bloom, sowing seeds for continuous summer color, watering practices, lawn care, pruning delphiniums, planting climbers for shade, repotting foliage plants, and refreshing window boxes with petunias phlox begonias and other annuals.
Prices list for Beans Sudan Grass Paspalum Millet Teak Saccaline Sorghum with units and figures. Includes note on other farm seeds and contact box in Sydney.
A coastal village between hills near Newcastle has vanished. It formerly housed large melting works that processed copper ore from the surrounding hills and used coal from South Australia, with fuel baked in ovens at Merewether.
KEWCASTLE WOOL SALES reports a strong clearance at Newcastle half on Thursday with 4 184 bales catalogued and fierce trade competition. Top price 22d for five bales of Esac branded Deepwater New England, with numerous lots across fleece and bale lines selling at 18d to 22d and slightly higher for select pieces. Other consignments from Strathbogie Emmaville and Walcha show similar strong demand and bright, well prepared wool suitable for market.
Seodtart Bayward solicits a free booklet. Auction notes include multiple bale lots with prices and destinations such as Manilla and Attunga. Nonco announces the second half of the selling season with a catalogue on January 16 including about 4 500 bales. a sale will be held February 20 with a similar catalogue.
The December issue features two boys romper suits and a girls dressing gown pattern. A sixteen page gift book of woolies offers many kiddies’ clothing designs with instructions. It also includes mother craft, cookery, needlework, beauty, domestic problems and opening chapters of the novel Pink Sugar by C. Ponca.
The Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co Ltd listed 5289 bales of wool from Central, Southern, and limited North West clips. Bids were strong from Continental, Japanese, and Yorkshire buyers with high prices for fine wools. excellent clearances achieved despite irregular lengths. top prices included Cootamundra and Uralla clips, while a Queensland tennis title was won by A Quist and J Bromith faced a violent incident in Sydney.
The December Weldon’s Ladies Journal offers seven free patterns including evening frocks day frocks coats and berets with fashions for all classes. It features home styling special features and a new Warwick Deeping installment Bluewater along with short stories by other noted authors. President Roosevelt has already opened his reelection campaign and Creek politics prisoners have been pardoned.
In the comeback and crossbred star lot section the undermentioned prices were realized. Tamworth fleece 184d yielded 4685 bales, 499 and 726 privately uncatalogued, totaling 5910 bales. Schute Bell and Co. Ltd. note keen competition, with British and Japanese buyers strongest for the 648 70s type. Continental wools fetch less as tariffs and exchange stabilisation loom.
Goldsbrough Mort and Co led the sale with 19 tons offered. Quality of skins fell slightly with the market 2d per lb lower on average. Quotations ranged from 10 484d per tb for 1st outgoings to 8/6 per dozen for hare skin and fox skins showed steady price trends.
Trains covered 26,275,451 miles in the year and the average staff on the hooks stood at 39,879, up 1,454 from the prior year. Heavier traffic boosted Railway Refreshment Rooms profits to £6,866 versus £78 in 1933-34.
The 1921 Australian cricket squad undertook a full tour of the Union, playing fifteen matches including Tests. Captaincy by Collins, standout bowling from Collins Macartney and Ryder, and Jack Gregory’s all round form highlighted the vast schedule amid hot dry African summer travel. South African star C N Frank impressed at Johannesburg, with Australia winning against Natal by an innings and 26 runs and facing strong Western Province and Transvaal opposition ahead.
The article recalls how African players Schwarz Vogler and Faulkner refined the googly, noting Cameron as a late wicketkeeper figure, and details South Africa’s Currie Cup defense. It lists players like Bruce Mitchell and L Vincent, and outlines Australia’s test schedule in South Africa, Rhodesia, and Natal as part of a tour guarded by an £11,000 guarantee.
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