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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 04, 1920
Page
2
Tenders for the purchase of the 4H Pengetin lying at Middle Inland will be received by the Chatman Government Mercer Board, Marquis Street, West Perth until 2.15 p m on Lith October 1000. Forms and full particulars obtainable from the Tender Board. We tender secondarily accepted.
Lieut Col Battye outlines Albany's woollen industry prospects noting its geographic advantages and looming hurdles. He argues Albany lacks local capital and sufficient population to attract a £200,000 mill investment, despite favorable conditions.
The letter argues Albany must offer strong incentives to establish a woollen mill, noting historic capital costs and the need for local humidity and land plus water. It urges capital access via British offers and warns against delaying, while mentioning timber, paper pulp potential, and oil prospecting as competing ventures.
Mount Barker residents bid farewell to A H Dickwon as Albany district hosts a lively but thin attenuated function. Telegram notes Adelaide wool sales with merino advances and 20 000 bales offered, butter output rising, and dairy quality praised as first grade.
Lieut Col Battye outlined the woollen industry and its West Australian needs at a Town Hall lecture. He demonstrated processing steps from fleece to cloth with slides, stressing local wool supply, capital needs, and the potential 100,000 pound mill to produce blankets, worsteds and other woollen goods for Albany and the state.
In Perth on Monday the Price Regulation Commission announced wholesale maximums for imported butter from the Eastern States. Rates set at 2/8 per lb for UDalk and 2/8 per lb for pate with add on if booked over seven days. Retail cap 2/1d per lb within the metropolitan area. Other proclaimed areas may include transport costs. Traders with older stock must not raise prices until cleared. West Australian butter pricing to be decided.
The Customs revenue for the quarter extended to £7,041,402, up £2,717,160, while postal receipts rose £157,150 to £1,915,018. Treasurer Sir Joseph Cook says he is well pleased with the returns and hopes vet estimates will be exceeded, though funds are still badly needed to meet obligations.
The Federal Council of the Seamen's Union has convened stop work meetings across all states, announced in Sydney on Monday. The action signals coordinated industrial protest amid ongoing labor disputes and union negotiations.
The Sydney branch of the Federated Seamen's Union will hold a stop work meeting Tuesday morning to discuss ongoing labor actions and workplace concerns.
An official said meetings will be held to debate the Navigation Bill currently before the Federal Parliament and to record a decision on it.
Forest Hill residents urge recognition of Forest Hill as a distinct community and celebrate the impending marriage of Stella Drage of Forest Hill to Frank William of Mount Barker on October 4 in the local hall. The piece notes regional links, people from Woogenellup, and farewell plans for the Bonham family.
Washington correspondent reports the United States will urge at the October 8 conference on international communications that German cables, surrendered as war prize, be shared as part of a world system open to all nations on equal terms.
London reports the final batch of surrendered German warships including Lubesk Stettin Danteig Augsburg and Munchen arriving in the Firth of Forth Scotland. Earlier batches went to Scapa Flow then Rosyth, with plans to keep or sell the vessels.
The Oct 4 issue reports India bans the London Dai ly Herald, a Labor paper, amid concerns about Bolshevik propaganda growth.
In Tubbercurry County Sligo a Sinn Fein party ambushed four police officers, killing District Inspector Brady and seriously wounding two constables. Nocturnal reprisals followed with several houses and creameries destroyed.
Twenty armed masked men held up a tram near Bunirana in County Donegal and stole gold valued at £5 18s 4d per ounce. Two constables were killed in County Clare in separate incidents.
A startling blast at the corner of Spencer and Short streets injured Mrs Cowden and scorched the kitchen as wood from a log was heated. Neighbors helped, police traced the cause to a detonator in the timber, and the infant child in the yard remained unharmed. The Perth Railway Office note adds a return-ticket policy change effective October 1 with varied durations.
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