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Newspaper
Taralga Echo
Location
Taralga, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 12, 1925
Page
3
An Agricultural Gazette piece urges NSW horse breeders to raise a higher standard to meet city needs. It warns against cheap repeating stallions and mongrel sires, urging stricter culling and purebred, sound stock to improve drought horses for brewers, carriers, and merchants in Sydney.
Last Friday's sale at Messia yard saw a small sheep yarding but a good volume of cattle. Attendance from local and outside centres helped drive a strong market. Fat merino lambs reached 28/6, store merino lambs 26/ to 26/11. cattle ranged to £29/15/ for best, with multiple lots and buyers named, including Mr. Ken Wong and Mr. L. T. Watson, among others staying active for top prices.
At Megara W H Wheatley Crook Well sale last Friday a small yarding of sheep and a large yarding of cattle drew buyers from Goulburn and local centers. Fat sheep were not listed. Crossbred weaners up to 98/3, growing weaners to 24/., prime cattle prices lifted with Wong Bros. from £17/18/ to £18, cows ranged £10, medeval to £10/5, cows £5 to £6/10. Store cattle valued from £8/9/ to £6/6, heifers £8 to £4, calves £3/15 to £4/4, paddies 90/ to £2, springers £9 to £10, others £5 to £6.
Cattle yarded about 1500 head with Queenslanders and calves to bullocks. prime light cattle sold at late rates and other classes eased about 1d per head. Sheep and lambs 25 000 penned. week total 41 200. merino and crossbred prime descriptions dominating. market opened steady to last day with slight metanthong. Prices show prime beef and mutton ranges per 100 lb and per lb for lambs and ewes.
A discussion on pig housing condemns damp floors and draughts as causes of sickness and low yields. It criticizes ad hoc pig-sties and notes a pamphlet on pig hygiene offering guidance on food and housing. Free copies are available from the Sydney Department of Agriculture.
A Sunday motor tragedy between Parramatta and Windsor ends with Miss Bowman, the female driver, apparently dying at the wheel after a seizure. Three other passengers escape with shock and minor abrasions.
The August issue features Famous Trials of History by Earl of Birkentead P C D 4 a vivid prison horror. My Haunted Past by Alice Hargrave follows a woman accused of murder. The Beautiful Mrs Forrest by Flavia Richardson portrays a young rich wife. The Fox by William Freeman blends a fox ghost with an ivory carving. The Grey Ghost continues in Upon the Waters by Arthur Somers Roche. Other tales include The Murder in the Locked Room and An Unrecorded Instance by Mrs Helloe Lowades.
Printed and published by Robert John Wining of Taranald Maraden street Crookwall for the Proprietors BR J Winning and Son.
Professor Sir Richard Lodge, after visiting America, lectured at Edinburgh University on Prohibition. He said in the Glasgow Herald report that Prohibition bore harder on the poor and fostered a de moralising defiance among those who could obtain drink to defy the law.
The Goulburn Choral Society presents a grand concert at the Broadway Theatre featuring Mr Arthur Jordan English tenor and Mr Bryce Carter Australian cellist. Wed Sept 16. All seats 3/ including tax. Booking at Foxall and Co Auburn street Goulburn.
A 44 hour week bill is prepared for submission to the State Parliament for Seanaereion during the current week’s session. The measure aims to standardize work hours and regulate labor conditions across the state.
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