19 May 1924
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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 19, 1924
Page
1
The piece surveys women’s fashion shifts toward tailored coats and velvet trims, discusses postwar dress rules and hats, notes Australian influences, and reports on new crime-exposure cases and silent domestic life trends. It also mentions London opera tea concerts and a miniature opera stage at Lyon Court with proper productions.
An English army waterproof cloth sale advertises many styles and sizes for men including suits, shirts, trousers, and outerwear with prices from 6 to 20 shillings. The catalog highlights special offers on wool flannels, silk hose, and tweed working trousers.
Small corset sizes offered at cash price 2/11 per pair with A and D marks. A special cash offer 6/11 per pair. Children’s gabardine and tweed coats a few slightly damaged, all to go at half price. Ladies and maids’ tweed and gabardine coats slightly faded, cash price 10/6 each. Ladies’ dark navy cheviot serge one piece dresses 27/0 each. 70 inch unbleached damask direct indent cash price 5/11 yard. 31 in fagette cloth cash price 20 yard. Hemmed table serviettes size 22x22 cash price 1/11 each. All wool blankets sizes 50x70 25 per pair 70x90 47/6 per pair.
The Albany Chamber of Commerce held a meeting at the Soldiers' Institute to review wheat shipment issues, harbor comparisons with Bunbury, and proposals to coordinate with Geraldton. They discussed railway station staffing, future Albany harbor policy, and plans for the Western Australia centenary in December 1826.
The Primary Producers Association session in Albany saw officers in chair due to illness. Attendees debated haulage pricing, rail projects, and proposed divisions for coastal districts while planning a concrete proposal for the district council.
Report describes a granite pin nacle covered by water, possibly 01 din deep, near the Avon dredging area. The deep jetty end has been altered by blasting and dredging to a depth of 54 feet over water.
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