23 Sep 1926
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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 23, 1926
Page
1
Longtime Mount Magnet Miner and Lenownville Leader editor marks 31 years at the helm amid dwindling town population. The piece notes local road board tensions, upcoming ratepayer meetings, harvest optimism, and community concerns from Katanning to Narrogin including fire brigade delivery, lighting plant woes, and criticisms of potato grading practices.
An Australian Western state article details Main Road Board plans with Katanning and Bunbury Ravensthorpe roads to be declared major routes. It notes a conference of district road boards, the need for an engineer, and preparations for a loan funded program to advance road projects.
Fragmentary OCR shows a publication line referencing a proprietar and an office in Albany Western Australia with garbled “vespatsh” wording. No coherent event or date is readable to establish a clear notice action or outcome.
A narrative profiles Mr Blanchard a young cleric and former moderator of the West Australian Assembly. It notes his duties at Perth and Geraldton, preaching weekly sermons, Bible classes, YMCA directorship, and Prohibition League leadership. It records a salary of £400 and his aviation milestone, plus travel by air and by road across 7250 miles in two months.
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