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Newspaper
Taralga Echo
Location
Taralga, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 07, 1925
Page
3
A gag reel of light sketches features Dick and friends losing luggage after a fishing trip, a boss and an office boy exchange, a minister visiting Browns and a missing jam recipe, a late-convivial night story, a doctor visiting, and a Taralga visitor on Circular Quay.
Cecil Roberts argues in the Westminster Gazette that prohibition favors the rich and middle classes who can obtain good liquor at fair prices while avoiding trouble. He details private cellars, hip flasks in jewel cases, club bottles, and private incomes from traffic, noting the law is ignored and the working class bears the restriction.
Arrangements are under way for a concert followed by a dance in Federal Hall to aid hospital funds. A concert party led by GouIburns has promised assistance. The organiser is Mr BE J Fulton and a local committee will handle arrangements. Full details to appear in the next issue.
The article argues that March elections may help the Government and Labor Nationalism stir. It urges country voters outside Sydney to choose Progressive candidates, stressing fair treatment for rural areas and the need to send qualified leaders to Parliament. It raises questions about representation, party interests, and rural decline.
Coming Saturday February 4 Harold Lloyd presents Safety Last a great comedy treat at the usual prices. Enjoy this vintage silent film with its famous perilous rooftop finale.
Instructions from Messrs A and W Cullen to sell by auction on August 8. Items include 42 choice cows in full milk, 60 mixed cattle pigs and horses, separator, boiler, cream cans, plants, 43 milking cows, dry cows, 20 mixed cattle, a two year old Burham bull, 2 brood cows, 8 young pigs, heavy baconer, turbine beater, 65 gallons, plus cream cans and buckets, strainer. Sale due to giving up dairying. Also two draught colts, draught mares and foal, pony makes and foal.
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