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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 30, 1953
Page
3
Tamworth Stock Sales conducts Fat and Store stock sales at the Tamworth Saleyards every Monday. The firm invites consignments and offers special Auction Sales or private sales, asking for stock particulars or buyer requirements. With 40 years in business and an experienced staff, they promise the best possible service.
Election notice explains eligibility for postal votes for distant electors and those unable to reach a polling place on polling day. Seven day deadline for postal vote applications to the Returning Officer, with forms available at Post Offices or 15 Church Street, West Tamworth. Electoral Visitors assist ill or incapacitated voters with requests due seven days before polling day February 14 1953. Mobile polling at Tamworth Base Hospital. absent voting advised within the electorate or from other districts.
Church of England in Manilla offers 730 am and 730 pm services, Milliwindi hosts morning and evening services with Rev. Duncombe, Methodist in Manilla holds 11 am and 730 pm combined services, Presbyterian in Manilla joins with the Methodist, and a golf course near Sticks Creek uses dynamite blasts to deter grass eating ants.
Association members urge bulk wheat trucks for northern areas and conversion of ordinary rail cars for harvest transport. They cite rail truck shortages causing hold ups at Manilla and across the North last harvest. A resolution will seek action at the Sydney conference in March, including more bulkheads at Manilla and Upper Manilla and replacement of the Manilla silo machinery before next harvest.
A yarn from Yass Junction tells how a cricket ball struck a hare hiding in grass and killed it. At Kandos a golf match saw Bob Reilly’s ball vanish into his pocket after a miscue, prompting debate on the correct ruling. A Mudgee party rabbit shooting session adds another curious, unrelated coincidence.
Within five miles of town the group drove past a hill and a stray shot from a hunter struck their car seat. They had eyed a bunny on a small hill at about 50 yards when the shooter fired missing the target entirely. A bullet remained lodged in the front seat upholstery after they returned to their vehicle.
Kyogle youths who spent the weekend at Evans Head chewed 32 pockets of chewing gum and used it to repair a truck radiator. A bad leak was discovered when the party began to drive back on Sunday night, and one application of gum sufficed for the 60 mile drive to Eyogle. A father remarked that his son is getting married soon and is farming out much of the work to others as he prepares for his honeymoon.
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