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RAIN IN N.S.W. SYDNEY, October 11.
Steady rain in the northern half of the State is bringing relief to many people who have been menaced by fires, and restoring the prospects of good crops, which the drought had discounted.
A FRIEND TO HORSES. SYDNEY, October 12.
Mr George Bills, a wealthy wire mattress manufacturer, left a will in which he bequeathed £70,000 for the erection ■of water troughs for horses throughout the world, and for the alleviation of suffering and the prevention of cruelty to horses.
GIFTS TO UNIVERSITY. SYDNEY, October 12.
A gift of city properties and securities valued at £220,000 to the Sydney University has been made by Mr George Bosch, of the Bosch, Barthel Company, importers. Mr Bosch had previously made generous gifts to the University. The Chancellor (Sir William Cullen), in announcing the gift, described Mr Bosch as the University’s greatest and most magnanimous benefactor. It would enable the establishment of full-time chairs in medicine, surgery and bacteriology.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1928, Page 7
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