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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 09, 1949
Page
11
Editorial urges better statewide recognition of Foundation Day. praises outback pioneers whose work built the state's growth, primary production, and wealth, and calls for wider official commemoration beyond Fremantle. Emphasizes the value of country districts and rural communities to the state.
An 87 year old Australian man John Murchison known as Old Jack is fined £1 for traveling on a train without a ticket for the fourth time. He declares guilt but argues free travel rights to meet Immigration Minister Calwell about settling British migrants in Victoria’s Otway district. He aims to jail to publicize his plan and promises to continue agitation. A Minneapolis couple moves into a 40 year old doll's house for a wealthy man's daughter.
M GILES EE HOPKINS has been named Director of Science and Technology to the Wool Bureau. He brings long textile research experience as former director of the Textile Research Institute Princeton NJ technical director of the Bigelow Sanford Carpet Co and top chairman of the wool committee of the American Society for Testing Materials. He will liaison between the Wool Bureau and the Joint Wool Research Project at Princeton where Dominion wools are tested as part of the Bureau's programme to bridge industry and research labs.
A historical note on an ancient coin operated device, the original coin machine used in Egyptian temples around 200 B C, where a fifth drachma input released holy water from a sacrificial vessel.
A word puzzle page lists across clues numbered 39 to 40 and down clues 1 to 38. The grid hints include terms like vessel, egg shaped, vigor, grow weary, and various crosswords style prompts with partial directions and playful spacing. The page is labeled Page 5 and reads like a standard newspaper puzzle insert.
A farmer in Brendon Devon used a tractor and trailer to carry chairs for his daughter's wedding and was fined 12 pounds 10 pence and had his licence suspended for a year. In Balham London a package addressed to St James's Hospital was delivered 20 years after posting in Wimbleden.
In Suffolk's East Bergholt Mr. Alfred Harwood was elected to two additional committees, bringing his total into the county's eastern region, with estimates around 252 while three years ago the total was 183. In Kingston Dr. E St L Finny, age 64 and seven time mayor, announced retirement to free time for work.
Early references by Plato and Aristotle describe walking figures that could not roam freely until chained. They note Mercury as a driving force within these figures to make them animate.
Authorities seek 170 ex-lamplighters entitled to a share of 1700 pounds. Lamplighters were fined until 1928 for late lighting or extinguishing gas lamps, so a fines fund was created and is now being spent, yielding the windfall.
At Tilford in Surrey residents requested a simpler name for Paradise close 14. The street will be called The Close to reflect local preference and ease of use.
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