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Newspaper
Wingham Chronicle And Manning River Observer
Location
Wingham, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 01, 1933
Page
8
A wartime era style home pest note details a toxic ant bait recipe using common kitchen chemicals. The instructions describe mixing with water honey and other items to create a bait, with warnings that children and domestic animals must not reach the poison.
A urging piece argues that spending with local printers keeps money in the community and supports town institutions. It notes every shilling spent locally circulates within the town, benefiting services and employment, and encourages readers to compare outside quotes with local firms.
Hayman Island hosts the Brobary Scientific Expeditions base and becomes a mecca for Australian tourists. Special notices promise scientific recreational and angling prospects with lectures and guided expeditions. The Dent Expedition departs December 10 by train with vacancies for public members and early applications to M Hanbury.
The readable fragments describe a small local notice with unclear wording. No specific names, dates, or places are identifiable to form a complete report. Further readable text would be needed to establish a concrete event or action.
A poem reminiscence by A Roberts of Orange NSW recalls abandoned rail lines and old roads. It paints images of once thriving routes and bridges, faded patches of gravel, and freight trains passing as nostalgia swells. The piece closes with a personal reflection on remembered scenes from the night news.
Manning Sales Company advertises regular stock sales held at Wing Vuum Yards Furniture and Clearing Balea in the district. Phas 18 P.O. Box 11.
Sparse OCR reads describe a Furnished waterfront residence in Forster marketed to tourists. Highlights include double and single bedrooms, rainwater feed, linen, crockery, cooking facilities, modern dining room, uninterrupted water views, well equipped kitchen with ranges, bathrooms, laundry, verandahs, and carport.
Arrangements announced for a beekeeping course at Hawkenbury Agredt Hiral College for 18 January 1994. Open to all aged 16 and over with practical work lectures and apparatus. fee £3 19s. Benefits include travel concessions from Richmond to Teay up to 28 miles and North Coast Steam Navigation Co. fare reductions. Applications to the Under Secretary Department of Agriculture Bun 984 GPO Sydney due by 19 December. A prospectus will be available from the Department.
Reminiscences recount Dungog’s early tradesmen and families. Mentions Pollany Pollaxy Pollock and Bendalba ties, James Watts and his son Jack, a blacksmith lineage including Mewura Bruyn Laney and KE Keg, star wheelwright Johnny Smith, and an Oddfellows interest. Notes Tommy Baker, Pollock’s absence in town, and local shopkeepers, tailors, publicans, a chemist, and brickmakers.
Fragmentary report shows Arte patri presenting a Winglsu Cariesie event at Mt Reet Dany in Wingham Naw. Names and details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
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