This week in history: January 9, 1925
Murray Bridge's bowlers go on tour, new rules for vehicles with metal tyres come into force and the Advocate makes an appeal to racial superiority.
From the archives of the River Murray Advocate, January 9, 1925...
Murray Bridge bowlers on tour
On December 31, three rinks of the Murray Bridge Bowling Club started out on a tour of the northern towns in quest of bowlers’ scalps.
Leaving Murray Bridge at 7.30, two rinks reached Tanunda at 10.30am.
Fourteen ends were played before lunch, and 30 after, in which the Murray Bridge club were victorious.
In the evening, the bowlers went to a typical Tanunda New Year’s Eve continental to enjoy good music, both vocal and instrumental, and of some quality, til the bells chimed the old year out and the new year in.
- Murray Bridge 124: Annells, Gudge, Gill and Jobling 30; Cawte, Hosking, Henderson and Davey 54; Lehmann, Crabb, Murray and Robbie 40
- Tanunda 117: Hensh, W. Heuzenroeder, Boers and M. Heuzenroeder 44; Hamon, Tummell, Hoffmann and Keats 29; Schulz, R. Homburg, F. Homburg and Edwards 42
Width of tyres: New legislation in force
The Minister of Local Government, the Honourable A.A. Kirkpatrick, states that the new Width of Tyres Act is now in force.
The maximum weight which may be carried on any vehicle having metal tyres and carrying a load any part of which exceeds 10 feet in height or 10 feet in width shall be calculated at the rate of seven hundredweight per inch within 10 miles of the General Post Office.
Outside that distance the usual conventions still apply.
Desirable immigrants
That Australia is in urgent need of population none will deny, and the only thing to decide is the best means of providing his desirable increase.
It should be the aim of all loyal Australians to seek to attract immigrants from the British isles, as by that means the old stock will not be watered down, but really strengthened and the future of Australia assured as a factor in the British Empire.
This laudable idea could well be fostered in Murray Bridge by Australian Natives’ Association, the Caledonian Society and the Royal Society of St George, all of which bodies are non-political and all aim for the good and progress of Australia.
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