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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 14, 1936
Page
4
Section H Preserves and Cooking lists exhibit entries with jam varieties and jar requirements. Amateurs only, non members and professional cookery excluded, with clear class numbers and item details including Melon and Lemon Jam Peach Jam Nectarine Jam Plum Jam Apricot Jam Quince Jam Tomato Jam and related pricing.
The section outlines entry rules for the Fine Arts Awards, including eligibility, entry fees for members and non members, and various categories such as Water Colors, Landscapes, Seascapes, Animal Life, and a Collection of 8 Water Color Drawings. It notes amateur and poster entries, prize constraints, residency limitations within a 20 mile radius of Manis, and special presentations by Mrs. Ernest Park Lowrie.
The article advises gardeners to trial newer varieties while preserving proven older types. It highlights Golden Gleam nasturtium and Apricot Queen calendula, Fire King and Golden Ray calliopsis, plus the value of sowing seeds in January and February for chrysanthemums and linaria.
The 1936 eclipse schedule includes four events two solar two lunar with three visible in Australia. Details cover the moon's umbra timings for the lunar eclipses and local start times for the December 14 annular sun eclipse seen across New South Wales Queensland Central Australia and Western Australia. The article also notes a June 19 solar eclipse not visible in Australia and a July 5 partial lunar eclipse viewable from the continent.
William Augustine Cramsie, a Glen Innes Councillor and former mayor, was fined £50 with costs and sentenced to 107 days in jail with light labor, plus a year's disqualification from office, for accepting personal profit from Severn Shire. An appeal was lodged. The magistrate noted the duty to uphold the law despite mitigating circumstances and pointed to a problematic payment of travelling expenses and a council resolution approving it.
In the Newcastle district an abattoirs sale yard notice lists poultry foods and meat products including N A dried meats with bone N A meat extract meal N A bone meal tallow dripping lard otis casings and related items plus NA blood and bone fertilizer.
Summer sowing tips invite gardeners to grow seeds in moist boxes away from sun. Send 2/6 with Winter Set request to receive Sunbeam Iceland Poppy Sweet Peas Double Stocks Pansy Delphinium tall spikes and 50 Gladiolus bulblets plus planting instructions from Sheerd & Sow Ltd at Box 3 G.P.O. Sydney.
Auld Reekie praises Edinburgh as a capital city that looks the part. Princes Street showcases commerce while gardens and playful children fill nearby nooks. A defile once a morass now hosts an unobtrusive railway route threading through the city.
A reader recalls attempting various weight loss methods before using Kruschen. She describes previous failed efforts and claims Kruschen helped her shed pounds, noting changes in weight from 6 stone 8 pounds to lighter clothes. She attributes the improvement to the product and references its claimed effects on internal poisons.
The writer surveys Old Edinburgh’s ghost-haunted lanes and historic sites from Princess Street to Holyrood. He recalls legends of Captain Porteous and Jennie Geddes, notes Sir Walter Scott’s and Robert Louis Stevenson’s ties to the city, and extols the Royal Company of Archers as a guardianship emblem of Edinburgh aristocracy.
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