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Newspaper
Wingham Chronicle And Manning River Observer
Location
Wingham, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 06, 1939
Page
1
The Scout group hosted a Camp Fire Ball at Memorial Town Hall Wingham on a Tuesday in May. The event featured a decorated hall a bonfire edge dancing by Miss Wilson and Mrs Ft Harty, balloons and a supper. Scouts assisted patrons and volunteers helped run the event.
The Wingham Picnic Race Club met on May 24 1939 with minutes read and confirmed. A balance sheet for the May 13 meeting showed receipts from race books face books and gate takings and expenses including advertising prizes and insurance. net profit recorded and adopted.
The meeting agreed transfers to the new Club and that all outstanding Picnic Race Club accounts be paid. A public meeting was set for Wednesday, June to finalize the new Club's formation and invite public support. Racing at Wingham has been successful and may expand if support continues.
A Newcastle party led by J. T. Canning tours Wingham on the Manning River. They praise the cattle sale at the next day, the Brush tourist attraction, the Mortonay fig tree, and local hospitality at the Wingham Hotel aged by Harry Cross. The visit highlights cattle buying insights from Stan Sinclair and Herb Flemming and the town’s shops, theatre, butter and bacon factories. The visitors depart impressed by Wingham’s charm and rural industry.
Publication line lists Frederica Arthur Fitzpatrick as proprietor editor at the registered print office on Bent Street Wingham New South Wales. No further context or events are provided in the readable text.
Australian Wool Brokers and Produce Co Ltd notes 2,750 cattle yarded at Thursday's sale, including 2,514 fats and 236 old crackers bulls. Competition was keen from the outset and prices remained firm at the best of yesterday's rates with some good bullocks selling a touch higher.
Optometrist D I McDonald of Jack & McDonald Sydney will visit Walker's Pharmacy Taree August 10 from 9 am to 5 pm. Consultations may be booked for eye care services during the one day event. A separate legal note reports a Christchurch prison sentence for indecent assault with a judge describing the offender as unfit for liberty.
Official correspondence from the Acting Under Secretary of Education informs Mr C. E Bennett M L A that arrangements have been made to despatch dual desks from the Department Furniture Workshops to replace long desks at Dyers Crossing Public School via Taree.
A group of over 30 Young Farmers from New Zealand is touring local districts, with events in Mis district and visits to Bacon Factory Mondrook Tinones and Dr Stokes's property. They are welcomed by the local Junior Farmers District Council and will attend a dinner and social, then visit Karaak Pint Syd Smith Farm Wing ham and its Brits. The visit aims to foster cross district learning and support for the junior movement.
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