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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 04, 1924
Page
2
Local football carnival draws near with matches set for Saturday at SQW) featuring teams including Drew Hollis Millen Mer Bold Everett Hayshaw Kai Havene Norman Tho MOB and several others as Albany association preparations proceed amid weathered notes.
A special train departs Albany at 12 45 pm for an excursion to witness the final match in Garmivel. Return fare details and ticket outlet information are listed with lines for adults and children. Tickets available from designated members at Angus and Quine at the local office.
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Wide discussion recalls the London Conference aims for empire prosperity and peace. It notes Britain's role in shaping reparations, trade revival, and imperial responsibility, while contrasting two attitudes toward German reparations and postwar production boosts.
Local notes record the Premier's figures on the Kendessup Commission of Inquiry totaling OMSD2. W. J. Day travels to Perth and Sydney for church duties, while T. J. Pees wins a contract for York Street police theatre eruption project due to commence soon and finish by Christmas. The Scots Church thanksgiving notes its founding, and Rev. Baglin discusses Albany church finances and debt clearance. A street obstacle injures Mr. McBride, blamed on lack of lighting, prompting calls for council action. Miss E. McIntosh opens music showrooms in York Street with a broad display of phonographs and instruments, and a town audience enjoys a concert program including local brass and piano performances.
The Great Southern Football Carnival opened at Mt Barker amid a large crowd and strong teams from Albany Narrogin and Katanning. Narrogin and Albany led the field with hard fixtures projected for the finals, and Albany showed stronger overall representation than in prior years.
The visiting taums are hosted by the government in a carnival at Mount Barker with a public hall dance tonight. Teams arrive and are billeted at local hotels. Katanning and Wagin travel in while clashes promise lively play across the three day event.
The Albany Association announced a final team selection process with players Harrs Turner Saunders Homey Cooper Foley and others listed for the journey. A separate squad represents Barker in the championship game against Albany, including Williams Webb Coote Inge Erekines Liebeek and more, with detailed line names from Young Hover Tomson Bevan Katannity.
The article describes a train excursion organized by the association with tickets obtainable from Mr. E Mécs and associates, a large turnout of spectators, and the Armay Fire Brigade Band accompanying a journey to Mt Hiorker for the opening match. It covers team lineups and the Albany versus Mt. Barker game with final scores 123 to 14 for Albany and 7 to 1 for Mt. Barker.
The Barker School marks a red letter day as it merges with the district school. Visitors from several districts arrived at the central school, greeted by pupils from the new merged school, with speeches by local officials and a program for children followed by tea.
Mt Barker notes cover a village party at Lilydale with Mrs Pickles and Miss Thomas, musical items by Quinbow Orchestra, speeches, and a farewell for Miss Phyllia Young. The town reports on Saturday basketball round two results, leading scorers, a proposed log-chop, and a march toward final rounds.
In Perth the Legislative Assembly debated a motion by Fremantle member J J Sleeman to table tonnage figures for coal bunkered at Fremantle and Albany from January 1 to 30 in the years 1922 1929 and 1924 and for Newcastle coal bunkered at the same ports and periods. After a lengthy discussion the motion was agreed to.
Hugh Lynch, an employee of the council's electricity and gas department, was electrocuted while parking near a new electric light pole on St George's Terrace. The incident is being investigated by authorities.
Lumpers at Fremantle halted work on the sulphur aboard the Myrmidon, demanding six shillings an hour after a 3 shilling 10 pence offer. About eighty men affected as the Holt Line steamer Myrmidon, with 900 tons of sulphur and other cargo, sits idle at Fremantle harbour.
A Darwin dispatch claims missing women were captured by locals and held as prisoners aboard a ship. A black tracker hired by authorities reports the women failed to hail a passing vessel and were intercepted by natives near Elcho Island.
A Darwin letter to Melbourne states the two women captured by blacks in the Northern Territory are alive. The message, received by a Darwin resident from his son, confirms the missing women from the wreck of the Douglas Mawson are located.
The Commonwealth informs Paemira of Victor NSW SA and WA it is prepared to cooperate in financing voluntary wheat pools for three years.
NSW Assembly members discussed preventing a repeat of the Sydney Artists Ball disorder. Police Inspector Mankey described the Town Hall basement and balconies as rife with drink and lewd behavior amid hundreds of revelers. Meanwhile the Women’s Institute plans a charity X-ray plant fundraiser with scribbage euchre hedge tournament and a fancy supper.
Reports indicate fighting has begun at Hwangt about twenty miles from Shanghai amid limited communications. Detailed information is scarce and verification is pending.
Paris reports the cruisers Jules Ferry and Colmar ordered to sail from Sagon to Shanghai. Altair dispatched from Tienes to Shanghai. Libs ordered to proceed to Shanghai from Tientsin. Tokyo reports the cruiser Tatents sailed for Shengai with 160 soldiers aboard.
A New York report dated September 4 cites Moun Wilson and others asserting Mars may be inhabited. They claim observations show clouds and atmospheric conditions similar to Earth, with rivers and landmasses described.
The Australian delegation in London reports the League of Nations assembly opened in Geneva on Monday. Mr Groom M.H.R., Australia’s Attorney-General, was elected to chair the free committee on constitutional questions, with Mr Charlton named to committees on technical organisation health protection invention communications and financial questions.
New York tennis recalls Tilden defeating Jennie 6 1 7 4 to hold the national singles championship.
Wiebards and Howard Kinsey have been officially elected to represent America in the Davis Cup. The team includes Tilden, Johnson, Rebards and Kinsey with Tilden and Johnson set to play doubles as they have been practicing together.
The Perth Royal Show runs October 7 to 11 with a prize fund of £3818 17s 0d up from £3550 in 1923. The Royal Agricultural Society lists schedule dates for various classes and events and will publish entry forms via the society and at the Royal Agricultural Society office in Murray Street Perth.
A letter from multiple signatories protests building a naval base and war-related work, deeming it contrary to God and the defense of all. Signed by C. B. Watson and others, dated August 4, 1024.
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