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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 23, 1929
Page
9
District news notes light harvest yields across farms with some finishing before Christmas and others starting late. A Maryvale cricket match between Combo and Bodangora ends with Combo winning by seven runs. A snake incident while stripping a farmer’s wheat provides comic relief, and seasonal wishes close the Wellington Times item.
Boxing Day marks the launch of Faeden's Money Rifle Club first annual shoot drawing visitors from across the district. The piece notes the season's bustle and a spirit of altruism amid the year’s end reflections as the clock winds toward Father Time’s next notch.
The Times letters wish readers merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Harvesting wraps up with a lean 1920 ahead but brighter times hoped. Mr and Mrs Jas Giddings enjoy a North Coast car trip. Budanora kurrajong growth prompts tips from Mr W Smith via The Times. Road work at local silos. Fred Jordant praised for silos management. 10,000 bags of wheat expected this season. Rainfall 16 inches in 1929, 10 inches below average. Little River Agricultural Bayou bids farewell to U L Lane as he departs for England.
Syd. Morris and Mr Covk erel, still in hospital, will be allowed home for Christmas but must return afterward. Mrs Toone has been bedridden with a severe attack of the flu. Mr C W Judge, ex-headmaster, visited Wongarbon and Dubbo with Mrs and Miss Judge and plans Canowindra and the city. Mrs Cardow visits city, to return with relatives. Staff left on holidays. Harris family to Wagga and Bathurst, Miss Riley to Orange. Miss Stroud of Pilewood visits Magrigny. Mr W Finucane shows slow improvement. A Christmas tree night drew 140 children, Santa gave presents, Daddy Xmas impressed, and children cheered Stony thrice. Soft drinks and cakes followed. all had a fine evening.
Pupils celebrate six weeks of holiday liberty as they await Santa Claus. The usual year-end gift exchange was canceled due to stress, altering the traditional Christmas routine for the students and staff.
The piece highlights fruit donations for schoolchildren including peaches and apricots, a spelling prize won by Ivy McConnell, and plans for a cricket dance on New Year’s Eve. It also mentions Mr. J McConnell’s successful tomato crop, busy fruit packing by G F Althofer and Son, and a local petrol cadger incident. Additional items cover hospital updates, a Xmas tree, Shire affairs, a smoke social at the Royal Hotel, and tributes to Mr W H Reynolds of the Georie Trotting Club.
Leaney honored at a club function with heartfelt toasts from Shire officials and employees. Speakers lauded his strong ties with the workers, presenting a clock as a memento. Leaney spoke of valued relations and regret at his departure after a warm, well attended evening.
A reader thanks supporters of the Wellington Timer, reflects on personal trials, wishes readers a blessed Christmas and a prosperous New Year, notes rainfall scarcity and stock conditions on the Common, and mentions a new Cobbora Shire leadership with hopes for fair rate division next year.
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