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Newspaper
Robertson Mail
Location
Robertson, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 20, 1929
Page
5
An item notes a scheduled time of 1 o clock at Sydney Combined High School. The fragment provides no further context on event type or participants.
A cluttered Bowral column lists shop sales, wardrobes and furniture, a lost item, poultry and wool trade notes, and a Wool Campaign appeal. It reports Bentham mayors and church events, parish exchanges, missionary visits, and a veteran bushranger sighting. It also notes cricket captain Jim Breen’s seven premierships, church notices, and tender calls for a brick bungalow at Bundanoon with October closing.
Tonight Friday a concert in aid of Mr. Fred Limond will be held at Robertson School of Arts. The program is strong and the community is urged to attend to support the beneficiary whose case is very serious. A large turnout is hoped.
Crowds gather at the Sports Ground Golf Links and Swimming Pool as Mit tagong plans major summer activity. The Council commits to upgrading the swimming pool with dressing sheds and a supervisor, betting on a booming season.
St Johns Club defeated Tulkeerah Club 1 set 0 games, 47 games to 41 in a mixed fours format. Matches featured Cowley Webb and Saxton families, with Brown Hoye and Ginns Lackey and several two pair games, ending 6-4,6-5,6-6 and 4-4 in various rhythm sets.
On Saturday the Braemar Tennis Club hosted its Club Championship with ideal weather and closely matched play. The semi final featured C Jones, the current holder, against Smith, who seized an early 4–0 lead before the match intensified.
Federal Elections all interested in the return of Mr J A Perkins and M Sage invited to a meeting at the School of Arts on Tuesday September 24 at 8 p.m. to form an active campaign committee. The candidate Mr J A Perkins will speak in Bowral on Saturday evening October 6. Tenders invited for quarrying and stacking hard stone for paving Paddy's River Deviation Moss Vale area with specifications and deadline September 30. Also tender for gravel extraction, loading and delivery from Broken Bridge Pit near Paddy's River Deviation with tender day September 10. H E Maiden Shire Clerk Moss Vale.
Jones and Smith split early sets and fought a lengthy final as light failed, with deuce on every game of the last set. Walters beat Chalker 6-4 6-2 in the other semi, and the finals are scheduled for next Saturday.
The Braemar club hosted a Sydney side of A-grade players, including four from Western Suburbs, for a 108 to 6 set loss in a match described as an educational experience for local players. Breemar lineup featured Missen Dy O'Brien E Heaton M Dobson E O'Brien Mrs Miller and players G Walters C Jones C Smith J Downs 8 Smith J Sheedy. Next Saturday Braemar faces Nepean Dam, followed by a Bondi team visiting on Sunday.
Ideas invited for the conveyance of the Bowral Football Team by care or bus hire on September first. Details from W Warren Hon Sec. Sale notices include cattle dogs and cattle at Bowral Goodfellow's Yards. Public auction advertised at Moss Vale and motor and repair services offered in Bowral.
Rapid-growing paspalum reduces soil fertility over time necessitating fertiliser. Departmental trials show best results from a spring mix of 2 cwt. super phosphate and cwt. sulfate of ammonia per acre.
A muddled mix of temperance finance claims and humorous quips. The piece cites Roger W Basson and Professor Irving Fisher praising Prohibition's impact on house building auto sales and bank deposits. It also includes political satire about savings and public costs plus a short joke about a tailor and a boy named Willie facing his mother and a doctor visiting.
A notice warns that any person found shooting or hunting near Iwash Road will be prosecuted without regard to persons. Signed by M. A. McGhoch.
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