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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 02, 1926
Page
2
The Municipality of Albany invites applications for a town engineer to prepare plans specifications and estimates for construction. Applicants must state salary expectations. J Duthie Town Clerk announces at Town Hall Albany July 50 1026.
In Denmark a shop counter space of 40 by 15 and a five room house are available. House furnished or unfurnished rooms, water paid on, suitable for boarding house. Apply C. C. Smith.
A special general meeting of the Albany Agricultural Horticultural Society will be held at the Lowey Town Hall on Friday evening next August 4 at 8 o'clock. The business includes consideration of amendments to June.
Sydney business leader Mr. Dunlop backs revising the Workers' Compensation Act, urging the Ministry to seek guidance from top business and industrial figures. He argues insurance benefits the state and humanity, criticizes private sector bias, and stresses civic authority to temper extremism and protect the community.
A discussion on sending an industrial mission from Britain to the United States assesses how private groups pursue knowledge of U S industries trade and labor. It highlights American unions the value of work paid by results and the paternal pattern of fathers funding technical education for sons as a source of national business strength.
The Orient liner Ormonde reached Albany after weather threats near the Bight and fuel worries before Fremantle. Roads Board Conference opens in Perth next week with Albany delegation led by W. E. Sonnnesa and J. T. Rutherford. Manchester Unity Oddfellows held a social evening. Albany Repertory to stage The Man from Toronto. Livesey convicted in Albany Police Court on two charges with concurrent sentences. Young Australia League expands farm life program with office in Perth. State Ship Kydra delays due to rough seas. back on schedule after August 10. Australian museum address covers wildlife, parks across states. Commonwealth Electoral Officer Joy outlines penalties for election advertisement misdeeds.
The piece argues American business life shapes leaders as active employers and skilled tradesmen. It favors sending a practical Western Australian printer with country experience to study U S operations, paper mills, and timber industries to boost local printing and pulp production, urging state representatives to nominate a suitable young tradesman.
Citizens of Albany complain of prolonged electrical supply failures across two town sections. Despite new generator installation, outages persist, prompting calls for municipal action to guarantee reliable power and possibly seek alternative arrangements for tenants and ratepayers.
Denmark notes brisk trade with shops hiring extra hands and several entertainments. Empire Picture Co. opens, boosting two cinemas with more planned. Railway yard reorganization and road widening progress amid wet weather. Bank, hotel, and cheese factory projects underway as showers give way to brief sunny spells.
Local items recount L Layman moving to Perth office and a transcontinental rail trip by J Jim Gerald on a £70,000 ten year contract with Fullers Theatres. A Wansbrough M L A and family depart for Perth while parliament adjourns. Migration and Development Committee appoints four commissioners with J Guon Premier of South Australia taking a post. Albany council discusses a typist appointment given to Amy Green. Ex-secretary Butelife dies after three years of illness. Warrant Officer DL Anderson arrives to take Albany Airs Office duties. M Moncrief takes charge of Albany sub-district as Hawkins transfers to Adelaide.
In the Ladies Hockey competition Imperials defeated Checkers 2–0 after a tight first half. Dot Nott opened the scoring for Imperiala, Amy Green added a second late, as Checkers lacked their normal combination play and poor ground hindered both sides.
Adelaide motorists and representative bodies condemn a proposed federal road grant seen as a large tax shift. NSW and Victoria resist terms, fearing imbalanced gains from motorist duties and interstate road funding, while cabinet debates a possible petrol rebate to ease the impact.
An analysis of business cycles from prosperity to recovery notes how misaligned production and consumption create overstock and price swings. It argues firms should forecast demand to smooth output, particularly in Australia where managers lag behind. Improved retail forecasting could maintain steady flow without curtailing production.
Perth reports the execution of Royston Benois at Fre mantle gaol at 6 o clock this morning for the murder of Me J J Greville. He showed resignation to his fate and slept well last night, having spent days reading the Bible and other books.
Information from Kalgoorlie reports Mr E Protheroe Jones, managing director of the Salden Horseshoe mine, will arrive in Western Australia in August to arrange restart of the mine if satisfactory terms are made. No definite decision known yet.
Official return shows overseas trade valued at £399,090,405 for the year ended June, down £20,442,990 from 1924-25. Timber exports fell £15,007,809 while exports rose £13,785,187.
Police in New South Wales traced a daring bank heist at Union Bank of Australia. A team of detectives closed in as intruders bored through the ceiling, fired revolvers, and surrendered after the capture. Four accomplices were later arrested for attempted robbery and complicity.
A Felday night accident reports two men fatally struck by trains near Lidcoine and Auburn. Esmond Dunn, 81, was removed from the permanent way at Lidcoie station with severe injuries. James Reid, 65, a praiser, was struck at Auburn station as the train passed, with both arms severed and body mutilation noted.
Premier McCormack accuses the Bruce Government of drunken power and seeks to block plans to grant wage control to independent tribunals. He argues the proposals stem from failing to transfer people's power to Judges and warn they threaten political rights.
The Producers' Markets reports higher apple supplies with prime lines in demand and prices rising. citrus overstocked and lower quality lines weak. Vegetables show heavy supplies with potatoes peas and hens firm. Apple notes include Yates prime to 22/0 and other lines to 16/. wheat remains firm around 6/10 per bushel. A cash prize of £1000 is announced for an Australian art union event with a winning cheque to be lodged at the Commonwealth Bank.
The Daily Herald publishes a letter from J Huxham Agent General for Queensland in reply to a Melbourne article by James Lunulen titled Can Labor Rue. The Daily Mail refused to publish the letter unless condensed to 200 words, which Huxham refused.
Famous author and journalist Hamilton Fyfe resigns from the editorship of the Daily Herald Labor paper. He says he has put the paper on its feet and raised circulation from 130000 to 460000.
Gwynne, chair of the Morning Post Migration Committee, replies to Australian criticism and British press. He says miners move for reform work and must meet Migration Department conditions. A July 20 note clarifies individual acceptance for form work under the same rules as others.
Sir James Parr, New Zealand Minister for Justice and Education, has been named an appointed member of the committee drafting the imperial education conference programme in London last year. The meeting will address Dominion issues including post-primary education.
The Ministry for Labor plans a September mission to the United States representative of both employers and workers to study industrial conditions. The delegation aims to observe practices and conditions across sectors and report findings back.
Delegates of the Miners Federation debated bishops memorandum proposals with some calling for firmness and others labeling the plan surrender. The conference voted to send the bishops proposals to districts for a vote with strong recommendation to adopt. About 100 workers are employed across the coalfields excluding safety staff.
The noted dress designer laments English and American fashion trends. She argues English women fear public scrutiny and that American styles were eclipsed by poorly dressed crowds.
Tremors struck the Channel Islands today causing cracking walls across homes in Jersey and Guernsey. Chimneys and ceilings collapsed though no injuries were reported. Local authorities urged residents to check for further damage and hazards.
Havana dispatch reports the liner Orizaba from New York with sixteen injured aboard and a damaged keel structure. The vessel fought through a hurricane from Monday night to Wednesday morning and stood by the disabled steamer Ansalda San Giorgio Secondo but could not maneuver close enough for lifeboat launches.
A mail train derailed between Noisy-le-Sec and Rosny outside Paris killing four and injuring eighteen. The train, composed only of mail vans, carried seventy five kilometers per hour and all casualties were postal employees.
Washington reports show farm prices down four points to 135 percent of prewar level from June 16 to today. The Agriculture Department notes rising bankruptcy risk as farmers rely on seasonal sale power. Purchasing power drops, with July index at 87 and projected to fall to 85, a low unseen since 1914.
Bahama Islands remain nearly cut off as stormy conditions lash the region. Naa nau shows isolation with debris and wreckage from storms washing through the town. The government mail and local lifelines disrupted as ships and vessels cope with damaged routes.
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