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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 29, 1935
Page
4
Gardeners urged to remove spent annuals, enrich and replant beds with phlox verbenas petunias and torenia for a bright warm season display. Emphasis on massed color borders greens as background and careful bed design with various bedding plants and seeds available in multiple shades.
A historical note states the Bank of England in London faces a reconstruction estimated at £5,000,000 and now beginning its twelfth year. It is expected to take three to four more years to complete, with ongoing large scale efforts continuing.
Gelds sbrough Mort and Company report firm values at last Sydney rates amid overall strong wool markets. Some irregularities occur in very faulty fleece lines, but clearances remain satisfactory. Sales in Sydney run to November 28 with about 240 000 bales. two sales scheduled for October 28 and November 5 will submit roughly 4 200 bales. Shipments data for July 1 to September 30, 1935 show 350 115 bales, compared with 110 272 in 1934 months.
The report notes Hayward leading wool buyers with twelve months earlier figures, and dupan moving to second place with 99 043 bales. A 47 571 bale gain over 1944 is shown, with France 31 165, Germany 16 051, Italy 6 452, Belgium 47 480, and the Netherlands 15 352 bales also rising. The top market tone weakened at home, likely due to Italo Abyssinian war uncertainty rather than continental wool demand.
This long established farm seed firm offers Australian grown Sudan seed recleaned and passed by NSW for purity and germination at 44d per lb in newt. lots and 5d per lb in smaller lots. Mention this paper when ordering. Prices of other farm seed on request. It will pay you to get them.
The eastern block is occupied and more than half the mighty structure is finished. Vaults lie sixty feet below street level to resist burglary, fire, flood, and bombing. Supervising architect F W Troup reported about 600 workmen are employed on the building.
Points from an address by Edmund Burke of the Newcastle District Abattoir Board to the Southern Districts Conference of the Agricultural Bureau NSW at Junee on October 14–15, 1935. Topics include feed ratios for beef finishing, the value of pedigree grass and improved pastures, salt lick use, parasite reduction through feeding, pasture refill, weaning weight, and profitability factors: early majority, top quality, and low production costs.
An American heiress Miss Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 21, fears kidnapping reports as she awaits a fortune close to a million dollars from her late father and grandmother. She is staying in London with relatives and warns she does not want personal stay details released. In Sydney and grain storage notes, unrelated technical guidance on stacking grain to prevent weevils and mouse damage is also described.
The article discusses methods to protect farm stored grain from insect attack, favoring silos as the most effective method when possible. It advises stacking bags tightly on dry ground, and covering stacks to keep weather out, with iron roofs and windproof sides to reduce air gaps and rain ingress.
The article argues storage of grain on the farm is best with concrete or iron silos as the most satisfactory method. It notes sheds should be cleaned, grain swept up, and walls cleared. It warns against pests with safe fumigation and cautions about contamination risks from improper spraying.
A Maitland Council review criticizes coin toss bidding at Waratah and Maitland yards. The report notes several disputes since prohibition, with bidders pushing coins to settle claims as producers fear market values are not met. The Board report urges decisive action to protect buyers and sellers from coin driven outcomes.
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