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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 03, 1942
Page
2
The sheep trade stabilized after a prior crash where buyers paid ruinous prices. Rain helped restore demand while 45,000 to 80,000 head faced yarding pressure. Industry calls for supply control to prevent future price drops.
A weekly schedule shift introduces a daily Tamworth to Manilla route starting July 6. The mixed train departs Tamworth 8:15 am, arrives Manilla 10:25 am, rests 26 minutes, then proceeds to Barraba finishing 4:50 pm return to Manilla 6:24 pm, with a 9:35 pm Tamworth arrival. Officials note this provides Manilla with daily mail service and better connections.
Alderman Pavy addresses council arguing local bodies cannot handle all matters without Parliament’s oversight. Acting Mayor Maaleod warns only 10 percent is administration, 10 percent policy, 80 percent finance and main functions tied to rent, water, power. Annual Manila Wheatgrowers Union meeting set for July 4 with officers to be elected.
News item outlines revised mail closing times at Manilla including Barriba at 10 pm and Tamworth Sydney runs at 6 pm with a note on clearing bases. Also reports on Mrs A H Mawhiler of Long View seriously ill, scrap paper drives, pension statistics for 1943, and Manilla district vital statistics with births, deaths, and marriages in the first half of the year.
Wartime dispatches describe German Italian forces pressing toward the British port of Alexandria with French ships bottled up. Reports claim Sebastopol falls to Berlin after a long siege with heavy Allied casualties. Russian fronts see strong German pressure while rationing begins in the home front with coupons issued to grocers.
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