Red Cross Day funds boost Manila society work
The Manila Red Cross Society reports a successful Red Cross Day on June 1 raising 135 pounds 19 shillings 4pence through sales 55 0 0 donations 62 4 0 and stall 18 15 4. Funds forwarded to Headquarters to aid Red Cross activities and appreciation expressed to all helpers. Delegates report of Red Cross Conference in Sydney features Miss Northcott Begum Arroun of Pakistan blood services and flood relief praise.
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Manilla Red Cross Society
Red Cross
Red Cross Society
Margaret Roberts
Sydney
Manilla
Northcott
Begum’ Arroun
Pakistan
Australian Red Cross
Doctor Walsh
Petty’s
Capt. Brown
Golf Notes for Open Day and Annual Tournament
The course opens Sunday and working bees on Saturday and Sunday mornings prepare for the Annual Tournament on June 23 and 24. Members are asked to bring tools and assist with greens tees fairways and clubhouse preparations. The Sunday event features a fourball year.
Manilla C of E Fellowship Attends Fogmore Park Camp
Messrs R Jackson K Hall and R Garless and Miss J Carter and M Carter represented Manilla C of E Fellowship at the Fogmore Park camp in Gunnedah over the Kings Birthday weekend. Nine parishes in the north were represented. The last Fellowship meeting decided to decorate the Parish Hall for a social on Tuesday June 19. The committee plans added attractions to ensure a brighter and better social for attendees.
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R. Jackson
K. Hall
R. Garless
J. Carter
M. Carter
Manilla
Fogmore Park
Gunnedah
This Week's Hint For Tightening Men's Trousers
A garment alteration tip describes shrinking bagginess in toe inees 05 trousers by spreading the legs on a board, dampening bulges, covering with cloth and pressing. Let the fabric dry, then align inner and outer seams and apply an increase, pressing first inside the leg then outside.
Ford plans £450 million expansion in peacetime drive
Ford Motor Company announces a three year program to invest £450 million in new plant and research in America. Henry Ford II says the expansion is peacetime and independent of defence. Australian papers pick up the story as a sign of strong Ford confidence in the future.
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Ford Motor Company
America
Henry Ford 11
Ford
Red Cross Leather Work At Gordon Home
A Red Cross handicraft instructor supervises leather work at the Lady Gowrie Red Cross Home in Gordon. The home is one of four in New South Wales maintained by the Red Cross Society for convalescent ex servicemen.
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Red Cross
Lady Gowrie Red Cross
Gordon
New South Wales
Red Cross Society For Convalescent Exeervicemen
Mandowa Shire Council Receipts And Tree Planting Plan
Shire Clerk J Coates tabled receipts totalling £2500 9 1 with detailed breakdowns and urged authorisation to pay all accounts due at 30 June 1951 for confirmation at July Finance Committee. Proposals include planting about 44 Jubilee trees along the Manilla Tamworth Road shared cost with Main Roads to near the Broadcasting Station.
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J. Coates
Mandowa
Tamworth
Manilla
Main Roads Department
Apricot Peanut Ring Recipe
A recipe outlines making a fruit ring using dried apricots sugar water self raising flour margarine egg milk and chopped peanuts. Apricots are cooked with sugar and water then pureed and folded into a dough with flour salt and shortening. The dough is rolled, filled, shaped into a ring, baked, then brushed with golden syrup and peanut topping for serving.
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Stoddart
Hayward
Stoddart & Hayward
Stoddart& Hayward Pty., Ltd
Popular Corner Store
P.O
Furnishers
Administer & Kovotone
H. C. Dengate
Whitworth
S. R. Reid
Dominion Motor
Singer
Willys, Studebaker
Mitchell-Shearer Farm Machinery
Allis Chalmers
Strafford Street
Ford News
Crockery Dept
M. C. MacKenzie & Sons Pty. Ltd
Peggy
Manilla Harvester CO
Mens & Boys
Saya
SW &W
Ae Ean
Aoeegenettt
Wang Ee
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