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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 24, 1939
Page
3
An advertisement promotes a fully tailored suit to measure with an extra pair of trousers free. It claims the linings and inter-linings withstand heavy wear, fronts won’t crush or buckle, and pocket linings are top quality. The price listed is 97 /6.
A brief price list shows Beehive Toilette Soap 21d per cake or five cakes for 1 shilling. Mosquito Coils large size at 6d per box. Insecdie insecticide priced 2/3 for large bottle and 1/3 for small bottle. Fly and Insect Sprays 1s each.
Keepit defeated Manilla by 21 runs in a return match played on Sunday on No 2 oval. Keepit bowled Manilla out for 52 in their first innings with Noreen O Neill scoring 14 and Mary Marr taking 4/5. In Keepit’s second innings G Wallace led with 52, aided by Dora Ledger and Betty Porter finishing with 96 for the second total. Manilla replied with 56 in their second innings, Noreen O Neill top scoring again with 19 as P Bell and Mary Marr shared key bowling for Keepit.
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