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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 29, 1919
Page
3
A large crowd attended the Saturday match for the premier Australia rules football title. Wests defeated North 52 to 32 after a tight game marked by injuries and strong defence, with McDonald and Ralph stars for West and Shenfield and W. Fitzpatrick leading North.
North defeated West by 7 goals 7 behinds 4 points to 1 goal 2 behinds 5 points. Harris Dorries and Johnson led the North forwards while Wilke Brown and Clarrison starred for West in a season setback. Illness and injuries limited both teams, robbing the fixture of its full strength and interest.
In favorable conditions the 60c cer team from Denmark met a local squad on the Perth road ground Saturday afternoon. The Albany term was weaker than last week with several key players absent, while Denmark arrived on time and Albany fielded emergency replacements due to illness.
The Albany Volunteer Fire Brigade stages another progressive euchre tournament in Lower Town Hall tomorrow night with prizes for both a lady and a gentleman winner. Play is slated to begin promptly at Messie. Dalgety and Co. Ltd have cabled from London that wool sales remain firm with Belgian American and French buyers active and prices rising for New South Wales wool and Victorian scoured wool.
Mount Barker fruitgrowers held their monthly meeting at the Park Hotel despite bad weather with president J. McNeil Martin and speakers A. C. Vaughan and Mr. Mann. A paper on export of fruit by Mr. Booth will be published in Australia and England. Repatriation Fund events included a euchre tournament and dance, netting £4 16s 6d, with prizes won by Miss Warnock and Mr. Herold Drage. Upcoming Girls Club confetti ball is planned for October 27 with hall arranged by Mr. Hubble. The Weasley Guild featured Dr. Deane’s talk on Christian endeavour and salvation, praising independent effort and social service.
The Associated Fruitgrowers Sid Kalgoorlie reports heavy citrus on hand with apples short supply as Rokewoods reach 21 shillings. Oranges and mandarins vary, lemons 6 to 0, tomatoes arriving 13 to 18. Potatoes 20, cabbage up to 16, peas and beans modest, poultry scarce with turkeys 30 to 12, ducks to 11, butter wholesale and eggs to 1s 6d. mutton and chaff noted alongside.
An Albany Welcome Home Committee hosted a social for returning sergeants and veterans at the Town Hall, with a formal address by the Mayor and notes from Royal Evans and T. Harkness. Guests enjoyed a fine repast, flower decorations by Mrs Gribble, and later dancing in the main hall.
Maritime brief detailing arrivals and departures including Bahia Castilla from Fremantle ordered to Albany by wireless, Eucla and Austral Pool movements, Frankfurt deporting aliens from Sydney, Malina cargo runs to the Eastern States, and Ascrana with 264 officers and 640 men sailing from Plymouth toward Australia.
Perth forecast shows showers in the extreme west with unsettled conditions then showers along the coast. Winds from the northeast to north and east-northeast range and gradually improve inland. Coastal Tasmania expected rough seas with moderate conditions for the present.
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