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Riverina News.
ALBURY.—At a meeting on Tuesday night of
the local branch of the Young Patriotic Asso-
ciation, formed with Dr. Robertson acting chair-
man, and Mr. C. L. Hayes acting secretary,
Mr. D. C. Shuter, organiser of the movement,
said that what they had to face was the ne-
ccssity for preventing the return to Parlia-
ment of men who were out to do all they
could to throw Australia back. The movement
was after the right type of man, and where
it found a Labor man was the most eligible
to represent them their support would go to
him. Mr. J. B. Ayliffe wild they were out
to fight the "Reds."
BARHAM.— Tomato growers have decided to
employ local labor where practicable for tomato
picking. The price has been fixed at 1/6 per
hour. There is plenty of local labor avail-
able.
Two Italian tomato growers, John Leuzze and
Rosario Inotovino, were at the local court each
fined £5 and bound over for twelve months
on charges of unlawfully assaulting Arthur James
Thomson. Costs amounting to £3 7/6 were
made against each defendant.
FINLEY.— The first load of new season's wheat
was delivered to the Finley Government grain
elevators (silos) on Tuesday. It comprised
76 bags from Mr. M. J. Murphy's farm, and
was a good sample of Union variety, weighing
64 lb. to the bushel. The load weighed 9 ½
bushel overweight. A number of farmers have
commenced stripping,
WAGGA. — Mrs. C. Dunstan, a resident of
Wagga for sixteen years, died on Tuesday at
the age of 70. She was the widow of Mr.
Henry Dunstan, formerly town clerk at Mascot,
Sydney, and later a newspaper proprietor at
Yackandandah, Urana, Oaklands and Wagga.
BANNOCKBURN.— The school endowment
plantation, established last year, has been planted
with about 2000 trees, all of which are looking well
The Band of Hope prize winners for the year
were: — Junior Division: Shirley Moodie. Inter-
mediate Division: Muriel Lock. Senior Division:
Agnes Ramage. A special prize for attendance
was awarded to Norman Lock.
CARNGHAM.— Wool growers In the Carng-
ham and Snake Valley district have obtained
up to 13d. per lb. for their clips from private
buyers operating in the district.
A five-roomed house, with its furniture, at
Berringa, owned and occupied by Mr. S. San-
derson, was destroyed by fire early on Tuesday
morning.
Mr. Henry Cookson, aged 68 years, a well-
known pioneer resident of Corindhap, died on
Tuesday. He is survived by his wife and daughter
CARRUM.— At a meeting of the central
council progress associations it was resolved that
the Government be requested to abolish the
practice of placing voters numbers on the backs
of ballot papers in State and municipal elec-
tions. The Tramways Board was requested to
grant concession fares to young people earning
only 25/ or less per week on the same scale
as that granted by the Railway department.
CHARLTON.— Messrs. J. H. Curnow, of
Bendigo, and J. Scott, of Beechworth, are being
supported by the Charlton shire council as its
representatives on the Country Fire Board.
A by-law is being passed empowering the
council to make a charge for fruit selling in the
streets. Space will be provided In certain areas,
but no selling will be allowed in the main
street.
Mr. J. Spain has been re-elected president of
the local traders' association, with Messrs. W.
Wylie and Tippet vice-presidents, and Mr.
C. R. Luth secretary.
The shire general rate has been fixed, at 1/8
this year, as against 1/9 last year and sanitary
charges at 32/ per pan. An extra general rate
of 6d. in the pound will be charged within the
town area.
The tender of Mr. J. R. Finlayson for the
supply and delivery of metal for contract
Country Roads Board works was accepted by
the Charlton shire council at £346 and £209
respectively.
The first load of this season's wheat was
delivered at Noske Bros.' Charlton flour mill by
Mr. J. J. Morrow. The sample was an excellent
one of Rance. The crop from which this load
was harvested is estimated to yield about seven
bags to the acre, and was grown in the
Yeungroon district.
COCKATOO.— The recent heavy rains
brought the total to date for the year to 3 ¼
inches. This copious rainfall has ensured a
good season for peas and beans.
The number of week end visitors shows con-
siderable shrinkage as compared with last year.
COWES.— Mutton birds have been arriving
during the past few days, and by the end of
the week many thousands of these birds will
be nesting on the island.
Many visitors have come to the island to see
the arrival of the birds. There, is every indi-
cation that the number of birds nesting this
year will be greater than usual. These birds,
short-tailed shearwaters, visit the island annu-
ally for breeding purposes, and always arrive
within a day or two of 25th November.
DAYLESFORD.— Mr. Trembath, who has
been a member of the Daylesford borough coun-
cil for fifteen years has resigned on account
of illness. He was mayor in 1922-23, and
was a vigorous and persistent advocate for the
construction of a large lake in the heart of
the town, which became a reality last year.
Mr. A. B. Fawcett secretary of, the Vic-
torian Amateur Swimming Association, visited
Daylesford this week, and inspected the swim-
ming facilities provided at the new lake in
connection with the carnival to be held in De-
cember.
DIAMOND CREEK.— A new seven-roomed
Methodist parsonage, designed by Rev. A. Milli-
gan, and valued at £1200, has been completed,
and was declared open by Rev. J. W. Rowse,
president of the Methodist conference. A gar-
den fete in aid of the building fund realised
£44.
DUNOLLY.— The Methodist Church circuit
fair held last week proved successful, resulting
in a profit of £37.
ELAINE.— A gig horse, owned by Mf. M.
Looney, collided with a fence on Tuesday. it
was impailed on the fence all night, and one
of its legs was broken. The mare had won
several district races.
EMERALD.— Complaints are being made
all along the narrow gauge line with regard to
postal administration. The new time table
makes mail and paper deliveries an hour later,
and new residents are also being handicapped
by the stoppage of telephone registrations. Some
time ago the department agreed to grant con-
inuous service when there were sufficient sub-
scribers. That stage had almost been reached
when the department decided that no new con-
nections were to be made. It is considered that
the department should rather encourage this
revenue producing service.
The Emerald Swimming Club has appointed a
new committee. The club, which had a credit
balance of £16 11/ last year, intends this sea-
on to improve the pool. There are now over
70 members.
FRANKSTON — The pheasant farming in
dustry which has been established on the Penin-
sula near Dromana, on the farm of Mr. D.
Picking, promises to develop considerably. The
farm, which was established some years ago, is
becoming known throughout Australia, and also
overseas. Mr. Picking has imported from over-
seas, stock that are expected to do well in Aus-
tralia. It has been learned from experience
that conditions on the Mornington peninsula are
ideal for pheasants. There are at present 200
birds on the farm, mostly pheasants. It is
stated that good markets are available for the
birds.
GEMBROOK.— Mr. F. Twyford, a local
farmer, intends putting in on experimental block
of four acres of tobacco. Several years ago.
attempts to cultivate the leaf were made, but
although the leaf was of good quality the
growing was not persisted with.
Within the next fortnight the Sunday up train
is to be run two hours later.
Deer and wombats are still doing much
damage to crops.
GISBORNE.— Large quantities of potatoes
continue to be sent, from here every week to
the Melbourne market by Bullengarook farmers,
whose crops turned out remarkably well a few
months ago. This season they are again sow-
ing large areas.
A contract for removing two elm trees from
the streets of the town which, during the re-
cent stormy weather, became dangerous, brought
nine tenderers, whose estimates ranged from £3
to £12. The lowest contract was accepted.
GORDON.— Mr. A. G. Godwin, a well-
known miner, of the early Gordon gold fields
died on Tuesday at the age of 64 years. He
has left a widow and six children.
GREENSBOROUGH.— On Tuesday Inspec-
tor Jones and constables from Eltham, Diamond
Creek and Heidelberg interviewed residents with
reference to the request for a resident constable.
The death has occurred of Mr. John Griffith
Eddy, aged 51 years.
HOPETOUN.— A neighborly action was
shown by a number of residents of the Hope-
toun district when they met on the property
of Mr. E. Huf, who has been seriously ill, and
cut and stooked 115 acres of hay for him.
Eleven binders and teams and about thirty
stookers were on the job early in early in the morning,
and by 4 p.m. the whole of the hay had been
cut and stooked. It was estimated there were
more than 100 tons of hay in the lot.
JEPARIT.— At the monthly meeting of
the Dimboola shire council the shire bank ac-
count showed a credit balance of £903 12/1,
The allocation of the charities' vote was ap-
portioned as follows:— Nhill Public Hospital,
£100; Horsham Hospital, £100; Warracknabeal
Hospital, £50. The salaries of the assistant
shire secretary and office assistant have been
reduced to the award rates, the amounts in-
volved being £44 and £16 per annum.
KERANG.— Hay cutting is general through-
out the district. Crops generally are fair to
good, especially oat crops.
Swan Hill defeated Kerang at bowls, the final
scores being 96 to 81.
The Kerang show for 1930 showed a profit
of about £100. The date for next year’s show
was fixed for the fourth Wednesday in Octo-
ber.
At a special meeting of members of the
Kerang Tennis Club, it was decided to form a
miniature golf club, to be called the Tom
Thumb Golf Club, The site chosen was the
grass courts. Mr. R. Gill was elected secretary,
the committee being Messrs. L. O'Brien, T, Wad-
dell, R. Scott, S. Hawthorne, R. Hill, R. Schil-
ling and J. Fiddian.
The practice of motor drivers, who deliver
few weeks have delayed the ripening of citrus
fruit at Murrabit. It is expected, however,
that regular consignments will be forwarded
from the end of the week. The quantity should
be much greater than last year.
Sister O'Rourke is at the cottage erected
by the bush nursing centre in Murrabit.
KONGWAK.— This district has benefited con-
siderably by a flourishing spring season. The pro-
duction of milk has reached record dimensions,
and although the lower price of butter fat is caus-
ing concern to producers the extra production will
ease the situation a good deal. Heavy crops of
oaten hay are being stocked. Maize planting
is proceeding, and if the season continues favour-
able there will be a plentiful supply of green
fodder for the summer. The potato. growers are
not disheartened by the low prices, and a large
area is again being planted.
The provision of electric current is going to
prove a great boon to the district. Many
farmers propose to use electricity for their milk
ing and chaff cutting machinery, and the light
is installed in the majority of the homes.
KOONDROOK. — Koondrook Progress Asso-
ciation held a successful dance to raise funds
to assist the local unemployed. The profit
amounted to more than £25.
A deputation visited Melbourne and inter-
viewed the Minister of Forests with a view to
providing work for local unemployed. A pro-
mise was secured that work in the Gunbower
forest would commence within a fortnight under
a new relief fund grant.
LILLYDALE.— The burden of main roads
on shires was instanced at Lillydale shire coun-
cil meeting on Monday, when Cr. Blair (West
riding) drew attention to the serious debit bal-
ance of the East riding, which represented a
third of the shire's overdraft, and urged East
riding representatives to keep their expendi-
ture within bounds and reduce the debit. Cr.
Wallace, the shire president, a representative
of East riding for twenty years, said no criti-
cism could be launched against East riding mem-
bers. They were in a bad position, he knew,
due to liabilities forced on them by the Coun-
try Roads Board. The Healesville road was one
of the chief causes of the trouble.
Appreciation was expressed by the president
of Lillydale shire council at its last meeting
of the splendid work carried out by the rate-
payers of Wandin on McKillop road. The meet-
ing recognised that the council had not the
money available.
MORNINGTON.— The local A.N.A. has de-
cided to entertain the members' children in
the mechanics' hall on 8th December.
NHILL.— Charles Denman, aged 64 years,
who had been a resident of the town for 40
years, died in Nhill Hospital.
Nhill free library committee has purchased
100 books from the Athenaeum library, Mel-
bourne, through a donation from the local
sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A.
Dimboola shire council has donated £100 each
to Nhill and Horsham hospitals and £50 to
Warracknabeal Hospital.
SEYMOUR.— Seymour presbytery has sanc-
tioned the call of Rev. J. F. Sims, of Broad-
ford, to Orbost. Rev, S, J. HiII, of Seymour,
was appointed to the vacant charge pending a
new appointment.
SPRING VALE.— A meeting of unemployed
was held in the mechanics' institute on Wednes-
day morning to receive the report of delegates
relative to joining the central unemployed work
ers' movement, it was decided that no further
action be taken.
In aid of the local branch of the auxiliary for
the blind community singing was held in the
mechanics' institute on Tuesday' night Mr.
Sutherland, organiser of the Blind Institute, ad-
dressed the gathering.
TAWONGA.— Splendid rains have fallen
here, altogether about an inch and a half hav-
ing been recorded. It will keep the grass green
for some time. Hundreds of cattle have been
taken to Bogong high plains for summer agist-
ment. The snow has almost melted.
WAUBRA.— The new mechanics' hall was
opened on Tuesday.
When Mrs. O'Neill entered the Presbyterian
Church, Learmonth, on Tuesday, she found a
full grown snake coiled on the carpet near the
church organ. Mr. T. Harrison killed the
snake.
At the annual meeting of the mechanics' in-
stitute the following office bearers were elected:—
President, Mr. J. Troy; vice-president, Mr. W.
Miller; treasurer, Mr. D. Harney; secretary, Mrs.
McGregor.
WEDDERBURN.— Mr. F. W. House, P.M.;
Messrs. J. Treble and W. Galloway, J.'s.P., at
Wedderburn police court on Wednesday, wel-
comed Mr. A. Anderson, of Korong Vale, as a
new Justice of the peace.
The practice of motor drivers, who deliver
goods to northern towns, filling their empty
trucks with firewood from stacks on the road
side, has been common for some time past.
Before Messrs. A. Gray and Wm. J. Galloway
at Wedderburn court, Frank Ashman and Robert
Reeve, of Melbourne, were each fined £1, with
£1 7/6 costs and 25/, value of the wood, on
charges of the larceny of firewood, the property
of Charles R. Goode, of Glenalbyn,
Two old residents of the district have died.
Mr. John Irving was found dead in bed at Bet-
ley near Dunolly, and Mrs. Wm. Jenkins, whose
mother (Mrs. Sullivan) is regarded as the old-
est resident of Wedderburn, died at the age of
52 years.
When opening a flower show at Wedderburn
Senator Guthrie advised his hearers to carry out
the trading policy of "Australia first, the British
Empire second, foreign countries that buy our
own goods third and America last." He said
America had not only mutilated our language
and our music, but, in appreciation of Aus-
tralia importing £20,000,000 worth of her goods
annually, had closed her doors on our goods.
In the estimates for the coming year adopted
by the Korong shire council, the engineer's
salary is to he reduced by £45, the secretary's
by £15 (subject to further review) and the
overseer (Mr. W. Crisp) has been given notice
of the termination of his engagement. If it is
legal the voters' rolls are to he typed instead
of printed, and various other economies, effected,
with a view to reducing the bank overdraft.
The Wedderburn brass band, trotting club and
memorial gardens will share equally the pro-
ceeds of a sports meeting to be held at Wedder-
burn on Boxing day. Mr. J. Daniel, of Wedder-
burn Hotel has donated £5 5/ to the funds.
YANNATHAN. — Useful rains have fallen in
this district since Sunday night, and will greatly
assist in prolonging the dairying season, Pas-
toral prospects will be greatly improved, while
the late potato crops and maize crops will bene-
fit considerably. Some heavy crops of oat
hay are to be seen, also of grass and clover.
Hay stocks are in splendid condition. Since herd
testing has been in operation farmers are. rear-
ing most of their heifer calves, and concentrate-
ing on these to improve their herds, which is
by far the best method.
YARRAWONGA.— The new shire hall and
offices will be opened on 13th December, with
a concert, the proceeds of which will go to
wards the cost of the hall furnishings.
Dr. S. C. Jamieson, who is leaving Yarra-
wonga, has presented a number of books and
periodicals to the mechanics' institute and free
library.
A number of farmers have achieved success
with tobacco plants. Some, of them consider
that their returns from this source will be
more remunerative than the proceeds of their
wheat crops.
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