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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 10, 1930
Page
4
Public notices warn that shooting hunting trespassing and interfering with fences on properties The Braes Springmount Milli windi Willamby Kia ora and other locales will be prosecuted without regard to persons. All previous permissions are cancelled. Dates cited include 7/29 1/10/29 and other entries.
The Manilla Express notes a hard year for graziers with droughts and a steep wool price drop cutting payments by about one third. It discusses future wool demand, possible price stabilization, and calls for more wool campaigns and scientific research to boost productivity. Beef cattle sold well and store cattle remained in strong demand.
The report recounts Mesera J. Gill and Stephens, two young travelers, crossing many lands by Shell motor cycle on a 1400 mile journey. They faced hostile mobs in several countries but pressed on, aided by hospitable locals in India and the hope of diplomatic friendship across the British Empire.
A historic account traces early Europeans naming coastlines and bays, leading to Wakefield’s colonisation plan. It notes the 1836 proclamation, Hindmarsh’s arrival, and Adelaide’s site chosen by Light against Hindmarsh. It explains the initial settlers and the origin of the term Crow-eaters as a nickname for South Australians.
The passage muses on reading habits, catalogues versus novels, and the novelist as a voice of our era. It recalls a fatal car crash near Kempsey, the Overlanders in Riverina, and provides a quoted Australian Encyclopaedia snapshot of early Adelaide pioneers. It covers limestone and mud houses, the Governor’s mud house, Emigration Square, and Adelaide’s first newspaper the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, plus the first school and 1840 Adelaide municipality.
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