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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 31, 1953
Page
3
H C Dengate advertises a large range of new patterns with prices from £4 5s per set. Afternoon teasets offer 18 pre sets at low prices. Odd crockery includes breakfast plates dinner plates coupés and vegetable dishes with prices around 2s 8d to 5s 6d.
Summary of Saturday’s Swinton Handicap 600 yard stage with results for competitors including D Hall and J B Gilroy, plus next Saturday’s 300 yard G S Handicap stage and April’s Challenge Cup. Also mentions Tamworth Easter Shoot on 5th and 6th April and a note on foreign tourists in India spending Rs 1 crore after 18000 visitors. A separate report notes thirteen women robbed of jewels in Italy during a promised swimming treatment.
A Sunday shoot covered three ranges for the fourth stage of the Championship and Correy Cup. Readings include 31 32 26 89 100 95 20 27 81 104 28 30 22 80 95 HH Cs Demure 28 29 21 78 88 5 Be Gilroy 26 22 38 76 100.
The Manilla Branch annual report notes membership about 136, finances of £20 in the bank and £% in bonds, and donations to local funds such as the Spastic Centre. It praises newcomer support, delegates’ attendance, and Honorary Life Membership for Mr. E G Ratoff. Harvest season praised for high wheat yields but silos and handling facilities deemed inadequate. calls for investment in wheat handling projects and rust resistance breeding. mentions taxation debate and voluntary pre assessment. notes funding for wheat research levy approved in principle.
ABC highlights present a week of regional programming from April 5 to April 11. The listings show daily sessions across multiple time slots including Countryman, Symphony Flour, Goodbye Mr Chips, guest performances, weather reports, and various music and talk programs featuring hosts and ensembles such as Clive Amadio, the Artists, the Dance Band and Me, and Wilfrid Thomay Shaw.
W J Byrnes reports a Wednesday stock sale with about 800 cattle and 7000 sheep sold. Prices weaker, buyers abundant, and fat cattle to northern butchers and Sydney meat firms. Freight of 36 truck loads moved. Details list individual lots and prices across cattle breeds and flocks. Also notes a Shire ballot on New State and wireless license fines in Grafton. Next Manilla Stock Sale set for April 1st.
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