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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 28, 1936
Page
4
The Manilla Agricultural Society governing rules set terms for officers and a 45 member committee. Secretary appointment, ballots, vacancies, and voting procedures are defined along with annual meetings, notices, and subscriptions including life membership and proxy restrictions. The committee may borrow with approval and by laws are to be framed by the committee.
Newcastle stock agents at the board saleyards advertise offerings including poultry foods meat extracts bone meal bone grit meal and dried products. The notice mentions weekly Wednesdays and emphasizes stock and meat products supply through the Newcastle district abattoirs.
Fragmented notice notes by product manufacture including references to pro casings and related by products. The readable text hints at industrial processes and material handling but lacks clear names, dates, or locations to specify further context.
The committee elected shall share the annual exhibition duties and payments by cheque signed by three officers. A yearly balance sheet, audited accounts, and copies for every member shall be presented at the annual meeting. Auditors shall verify the Treasurer's statements and certify accuracy. Rules to be published and available to members two months before the show. Political topics are prohibited at meetings. The first election of the committee was held on 14 November 1930.
Wool reports from Goldsbrough, Mort and Co note strong competition in Sydney and other Australian centers with splendid clearances. Opening London sales favored sellers, with Merino and crossbred categories rising up to 10 percent. Top price reached 244d for 5 bales of Oakton Young, amid a well-prepared catalogue and keen home and continental demand.
The New England, North and North-West Producers' Company Limited records a successful Newcastle sale on the 16th with 3110 bales offered and nearly all sold. Top price 26d for four bales of super comb branded Hat Saumarez for F. J. White and Co. Armidaly. other lots ranged 23d to 24d with many at 20d. Principal sales listed include W. C. Hillard Armidale with 5 at 23d and 14 at 214d.
In Ocean Island known as Banahan, a 13 by 8 mile atoll in the Pacific, phosphate is the dominant industry run jointly by England Australia and New Zealand. Population includes about 1000 natives, 600 other Gilbert Islanders, and 700 Chinese. Europeans number about 100 split among three settlements. The island’s history notes Christianized natives, a once forbidden custom bubiti, and an economy focused on supplying phosphate to global markets.
A vintage advertisement urges indoors living due to neuritis and promotes Kraschen, a blend of six natural salts, claimed to cleanse internal organs and purify the bloodstream. The long list of wool buyers and prices follows, noting greasy wool averages for the 1935/36 season.
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