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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 02, 1942
Page
2
W A Boman secretary of the Manila branch says no meeting will be held this week due to heavy rains. Farmers must focus on fields for the next week or two, after which a meeting will be called when opportunity offers.
A wartime appeal notes supply shortages and reduced staffing as two thirds of key workers are in the forces. It urges patience and trust, asks readers to endure the current year or next, and to remain hopeful for the return of servicemen.
Last week 163 points of rain fell at Manilla Post Office aiding wheat growers and sowing plans. District prospects improve as farmers plan 35000 acres or more. Waste paper receipts total 218/4/7 with council allocating funds to Boy Scouts and local funds. Annual farmers meeting elects G J Wilshire treasurer noting 1908 records show 46 members then, with only three remaining members.
At the Manilla Business Mens Meeting officials reported exchanges with the Postal and Transport Department over a road mail and passenger service to alternate with tri weekly trains. A mail only service was not yet feasible. A goods train to Tamworth might carry Sydney mails on select afternoons. Municipal matters included tenders for a bridge steps project and a second front in Europe petition from Mandows Shire Council. Road repairs across several routes and weed control in Southbrook and North Manilla were discussed.
A crowded Bathday night in Manilla marks Rev Battersby’s farewell as Anglican vicar of the parish after thirteen years of service. The community, including the Guild and Methodist and Presbyterian colleagues, praise his work for youth, the Parochial Council, and church construction. He resigns for Inverell, where he will lead a larger parish, with thanks from townsfolk and a wallet of notes presented in his honor.
Acting Secretary for Railways replies to a Manila Express May report, clarifying that station grading depends on total inwards and outwards traffic and traffic nature, not on local freight earnings. He notes statistics in the Commissioner's Annual Report and explains pass arrangements once existed but do not today.
Sir this letter replies to Totter from the 20th and addresses topics in the Noxions Weeds range trenches school Easter Monday work, inspector qualifications and Local Government Act powers. The writer defends expenditure and notes the Rural School district and town benefit, closing with regret for any misrepresentation.
A letter notes plans to deliver old season tobacco leaf to Manilla station by Saturday June 6. The station master says tracks cannot be kept over the week, so consignments must shift to the afternoon train on June 6. Owners are urged to deliver leaf to the grain shed by Friday June 5 for weighing Friday morning and loading for departure the next day.
Four more Pairy Championship games were played Sunday. Watts and Davis beat FW North and C N Scott 20 to 15. A Rodgers and J Wearne defeated Byrne and A C Bedford 21 to 12. A Kelly and J Kennedy beat A Macleod and W Byrnes 24 to 28. Swain and Hayward defeated M Podmore and M James 20 to 14. Gannon and Bignall beat Dyson and Bignall 95 to 15. Brady and Blanch beat Ogle and Blair 23 to 18.
On Wednesday at 8 pm at the District Rural School a public meeting will be held by the Manilla Junior Farmers Club to start a drive for growing more vegetables in home gardens. Supervising Teacher F Purkiss will speak on the vital subject as the clubs claim home gardening aids the war effort by reducing market demand and increasing supplies for Australian troops.
Gov C W Woolfe, son of Mr and Mrs W Woolfe, arrived from the Middle East to visit Manilla. Mrs B C T Bowman is visiting Manilla. Rev and Mrs A Battersby and David left Manilla for Inverell, Battersby to conduct farewell service at Holy Trinity Church Sunday. Rev A V Smith LT will lead Manilla Anglican Church in the interim. Rev Smith formerly served as administrator of Madowah Shire. Heywood, Mandowa Shire Council president, left Monday to attend the Shires Association conference in Sydney.
Mr N J Johns of Wolongong Station Unenrie who visited Dr md Mrs Windeysr at Manilla and a former South African War veteran notes droughts in South Africa are followed by rain in Australia. He says dry spells in SA predictably precede good rainfall in Australia six to ten weeks after SA drought ends. He sold sheep during drought and bought when good rain came, and recently received word of abundant rain in SA. The parched southwest of this State is now benefiting.
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