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CALL TO ARMS By JOHN RYAN JOHN CARPENTER has operated farm machinery for decades and he’s thinking of coming out of retirement in the next few months to have another crack. The former agricultural manager spent 25 to 30 years wrangling the harvest contractors at Jemalong Station near Forbes, and on some of the company properties he’d have 16 or 18 headers running at once. “The agricultural company I worked for was the fourth biggest landholder in Australia at the time. It had about a million acres and I used to travel around to those properties a bit, usually running the harvest with the headers and the trucks,” he told Dubbo Photo News. “You can imagine with that many headers there’s a multitude of trucks carting to the silos. We’d have probably 20 trucks at one time coming into just one property. “The headers now are pulling off many tonnes each hour and when you’ve got a lot of headers running together, that’s a lot of grain to move. The headers like to keep going as long as they can, during the night if they can.” Continued page 2
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DRIVE-IN SITE SALE SIGNALS SAD END By JOHN RYAN DUBBO’S Westview Drive-In is apparently under contract and the sale will mean the end of the outdoor theatre which has seen more than 30,000 visitors through the gates since it reopened. That’s three times as many people as the recent NRL game brought to town. The venue had also clinched
some events for the city, with the promise of relevant movies being screened enough to tip the scales and bring those visitors to Dubbo rather than competing centres. Drive-in operator Jason Yelverton told Dubbo Photo News it’s a sad time for what’s become an iconic local attraction. “There’s a textbook on how to close drive-ins – there’ll only be
two left in NSW when Westview shuts – but there’s no textbook on how to open one. “The really great thing about the drive-in is that it appeals to all ages and demographics. We’ve had families here from great grandparents down to the smallest kids and they’ve all enjoyed the experience so much.” Continued page 3
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