This week in history: April 4, 1924

From the archives of the River Murray Advocate, April 4, 1924… This story is now free to read. Help us tell more stories like this by subscribing today.

Murray Bridge running sheds

The rumour has been circulated in Murray Bridge that it is the intention of the chief railways commissioner to remove the running sheds to Tailem Bend.

The Minister of Agriculture, the Honourable John Cowan, stated to our representative that no plans had been prepared for such work, and no such proposal had been placed before the ministers by the chief railways commissioner.

St George’s Day

April 24 is St George’s Day, the day which is honoured by English men and women throughout the Empire, but less ostentatiously than other national days, as is the habit of Englishmen.

The Murray Bridge branch of the Royal Society of St George will hold the annual dinner in the Murray Bridge Institute Hall.

The secretary, Mr Montgomery, and assistant secretary, Reverend W.A. Terry, will be pleased to hear from people of English descent who desire to become members of the branch.

The duty of citizenship

Tomorrow the electors of the state of South Australia will have the decision of the constitution of the parliament for the next three years in their hands, and it behoves every citizen to exercise his franchise in the way he considers will be to the best interests of the state as a whole.

A side issue has been introduced by some well intentioned, but much mistaken, would-be reformers who have endeavoured to place their particular fad – the prohibition of the manufacture, importation and sale of intoxicating liquor – before the legitimate interests of the country, and who, in their sheer overzealous devotion to this particular fad, have allowed their enthusiasm to outweigh their sound judgment.

Another matter has been introduced by the advocates of scriptural instruction in state schools.

The three Labor candidates – Messrs Collins, Woods and Staniford – have stated that they are opposed to the idea.

The three Liberal candidates – Messrs Homburg, Randell and Young – have clearly stated that if the several denominations can agree on the method in which this scriptural instruction is to be imparted, they are prepared to support a measure to include scriptural instruction in the school curriculum.

The main question to be decided by the intelligent elector is whether Sir Henry Barwell or Mr John Gunn shall be the premier of the state for the next three years.

Lest we forget

During last week the people of Adelaide were made the subject of an appeal for the benefit of the soldiers infected with tuberculosis.

In Murray Bridge, unfortunately, no responsible person thought of organising an appeal contemporaneously with the general appeal, and it has been left to the comrades of the unfortunate men to take the initiative in this respect.

It is, at any rate, an evidence that the soldiers of Murray Bridge have not forgotten the state of the men of Bedford Park, and it is a credit to the local sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association that they are determined not to forget the trials and tribulations of the Great War.

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