Manilla District Improvements and Local Notices
The Manilla district reports completed Arthur Street drainage and road works with extra costs, plus drainage fixes on boundary and Namoi streets. Street grading, park entrance work, and tree planting on River Street are noted. Building plans for T A Conte await council approval subject to requirements. Financial items cover overdraft forms, revision court rolls, relief grants, unemployment, and river bridge caretaking. A letter from Inverell Fishermen’s Association urges action against illegal fishing, proposing police enforcement, honorary inspectors, and public regulation briefings. local officials express support. A holiday note recalls caretaking concerns after a house sale and disappearance of caretakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Street
Southbrook
Rowan Street
Strafford Street
Market Street
Namoi Street
Court Street
Strafford ‘Street
Kennedy Street
Hill Road
Hurleys Down
River Street
Counsil
Namoi
Manilla
Inverell Fishermen's Association
Macintyre
Waas
North
Dumaresq
Sovereign River
Young Australia League Announces Education Tours Abroad and Home
The Young Australia League reports three year growth in educational tours, carrying over 17 000 youths since 1905. Proposals include Tasmania tours to Hobart Launceston Melbourne and Canberra and Western Australia trips via the trans Australian railway to Kalgoorlie Perth with Adelaide Melbourne Canberra stops. Tours for boys and girls have separate dates. leaflets available at 355 George Street Sydney. Deposits range from £3 to £5 with instalment balances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Australia League
Australia
Stern Om
Tasmania
Hobart
Launceston
Melbourne
Sydney
Canberra
Western Australia
Goldfield
Kalgoorlie
Perth
Adelaide
George Street
Eight Hours of Oddities at Police Station
Drunk man entertained cops for eight hours at the Knest station, reciting religion and politics while auctioning a cow and offering bids. Onlookers noted his calm auctioneer style. Eye Board stated cat prices likely unchanged. highest on record quoted at 38/2 in Sydney. A hurricane in Mexico left several dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knest
Eye Board
Sydney
Mexico
Birds Cannot Count and Lessons From Crows
A country visitor notes birds like crows fail to grasp numbers. He describes how removing meat pelts or diversions to lure crows yields predictable returns, while photographers and hunters exploit this lack of counting. The piece ponders whether number sense matters to birds and hints at nest disruption effects.
Mutilation on The Rail Tamworth Fatality of Foster
Nicholas Norman Foster a 44 year old insurance agent and local buyer, was found mutilated on a railway line at Tamworth on Friday after leaving his home late Thursday night. The Glen Fynes mail and an Armidale light engine ran over him, and he had been visiting his brother Frank at Tamworth. Foster was well known in football and cricket circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Norman Foster
Tamworthen
George Allen
Foster
Hi Home
Glen Fynes Mail
Armidale
Frank
Tamworth
Eighty Percent Fall in Relief Orders Reported
The Unemployed Relief Council year ending June 30 shows registered unemployed down by 75 000 and food relief orders and their value down by 282 253 and 223 189 monthly, a drop over 50 per cent. Total allocations reached 5 835 049 with 2 562 224 advanced as loans. Direct employment aided 40 000 people. Major outlays included 1 768 868 to Public Works for water supply sewerage and drainage and 953 128 to the Water Board. Other large sums funded hospitals schools road work and advances for settlers. A note of a man’s illness interrupts copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unemployed Relief Council
Cunningham
Public Works Department
The
Water Board
Clarence
Richmond
Also Mentioned on This Page
Manilla & District News
Council
Huilding
T. A. Conte
Nasaw
Taal
Intractien
France
Lightin
Chief Secretary's Department
Ald. Bowman
Coates
Inverell Fishermen’s Association
Ald
Bowman
Inverell Association
Seed Trust
East Pro
Bydmey Wher
Post Office
Y Grady
Post Office Hotel
Welling Organisation
A.ml. & F. Company
AML & F. Coy. Ltd
Jean
Susi Eco
B.J. Colvin
Tor
Proposa
Tammania
South Australia
Joys Unlimited
Luna Park
Switchiack
Efftee
Apple Teland
Young Australi League
MANILLA AGRICULTURAL SocieTy —_ One
Wsohabio
Atin
Rigtet
Pmetratien
Brown Alk
Thomas
Joint Ives
Yesterda
Hixcold
Aton Richmond McLeod
Manifin Newspaper Co
Manila Express
New South Wales
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