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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 29, 1951
Page
2
Doherty of Muswellbrook is a guest of Mrs. Hirschberg at the Court House Hotel. V. J. Byrnes has returned home after medical advice. Dick Brettz is home for a rest before further medical treatment. Constable Schaeffer leaves for Tenterfield on Friday to take duty. Les Carey departs Sunday for Uralla to take up a position.
Mrs Taylor won Sunday's event with Mrs Ghys second. Next Saturday opens Mrs Handsaker's Trophy Stroke event. Following Sunday starts Mrs Widdeyer's Trophy Stab leford Pat. Tamworth Associates remind tournament on June 6. Nominations close May 8. Players arrange own transport.
Percy Charles Doyle, 20, of Manilla, pleaded guilty in Tamworth Quarter Sessions to indecently assaulting a female under 16. Judge P Ve Storkey sentenced him to 12 months hard labour, noting no protection for the public and deeming Doyle's mental age as that of a five or six year old. Constable L J Stanford testified Doyle lived with his uncle at West Manilla and avoided peers his own age.
Weights listed for Flying Handicaps and Progressive, Jubilee Cup, and Welter events at Manilla. Entries include Armageddon, Lady Dey, Gold Trey, Gun Dump, All Jeep, Kew, Star Mist, Yarden, Final Girl, Trey Spee, River Thames, Babes, Morning Glow, Brumac, Lincourt, Plymouth Pete, Garalady, Present Arms, My Lord, Bay Wings, Jubilees, Improv ers Handicap, Dungaleer, True Tide, Pem broke, Athol Boy, Cara Lady, Peatross, Minya, Princess Mint, Spigot, Siper Showman, and others with varied furlongs and weights.
A state wide Red Cross salvage drive mobilizes more than 520 branches to collect old clothing and textiles in any condition. Each area will have a depot operated by Red Cross branches where donations are brought, packed in bags from Sydney HQ, and later used to bolster funds and support national material needs.
A street stall will be held Friday June 1 at Manilla to support the Red Cross Appeal Day. Donations of jams cakes pickles and saleable foods welcomed. A vacancy exists on the Manilla Hospital Board and adults in the district are invited to submit full details for consideration. Memorial Hall Gala Dance and Tennis Tournament events announced.
Mr G B Steel will represent Webster Jack and McDonald at Manila Royal Hotel on Thursday May 31 1951 with appointments from 1 to 4 pm arranged by the hotel proprietor.
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