02 Aug 1918
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Newspaper
Bombala Times
Location
Bombala, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 02, 1918
Page
1
Big crowd attended the Soldiers' Welcome Home event. Obituary notes report the death of Mrs. Stace, a renowned horsewoman seen across New South Wales. Town notices cover stock feed, tax returns, local theatre bills, and a council election result for J Boland. Proceeds aid the Soldiers' Welcome Fund and Red Cross efforts amid wartime updates.
A Roll of Honor lists men who enlisted at Bowbala or had Bombala district connections at enlistment. Names include Armstrong Budgery Bedingfield Beileiter Bellchambers Brasington Brownlie Campbell Connlon Coates Copeland Curtis Davis Dawson Deoks Dent Dunne Daan Douch Elliott Elton Forsythe Gleeson Graham Haggar Hart Heada Helmers Lancaster Langley Law Hawk Livingstone Lyne Margrie McLeod McIntyre Morrison Nicholson Oliver Parkes Phillips Pill Reed Robbie Shields Skipper Sloan Smith Stewart Stutehbury Turner Trevanion Walker Warburton Watson Whitehead Whitehead Whiteley Wiles Yelds with status notes such as Died of Wounds and Prisoner of War.
Teachers at Bombala Public School organized a masquerade ball at Olympia Hall to aid the hospital. The event drew a good crowd despite heavy rains, with prizes for best and most original costumes and a ham raffle raising funds. After expenses, total proceeds reached £32 19s 4d, profit £23 1s 4d. with subsidy, hospital benefit totals over £47.
At the Monaro Electoral Council meeting in Coonin last week the Australian Labor Party urged decentralization and favored opening Twofold Bay as the southern port over Jarvis Bay. The council also urged action on land-owner duties, protest against rabbit skin trade interference, and a push for total liquor prohibition at the next conference, with two dissenters.
The Coons incident reports Snowy Richmond a noted Delegateite captured by military police then escaping en route to Liverpool after breaking a lavatory window and leaping from a train, marking his third arrest.
Annual meeting of Bombala Exhibition Society to be held at Brian's Hotel at 3 p.m. Members are urged to attend. Jonas, Secretary.
Notice indicates that persons liable to furnish land owned as of June 16 1918 must file land and income tax returns for 1918 1919. Forms and explanations of the Acts are available at principal post offices where the returns may be obtained.
In parliamentary remarks Mr McPherson reports 14500 British prisoners taken on the Weati front since March 21. The Times correspondent notes German stands at Seringes and Serges, bridges destroyed and roads mined, with heavy bayonet fighting and German setbacks in the Balkans alarm Austrians. Reuter and Lord Lansdowne quotes urge clear war aims and peace terms while Allies press on in Moscow and Fere en Tardenois with gains.
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