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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 15, 1945
Page
2
The document is a dense form guide for a Western Australasian Turf Club meeting listing horses, trainers, and race details across multiple WA handicaps. It includes horse names, weights, placings, and betting style notes, with partial legible entries for races such as the Underdin Handicap, Tammin Handicap and Berrin Handicap.
Race details show maidens and welter events with multiple named horses and weights. Entries include Coomberdal Altair Hebuterne Ampaloosa Star Bing Boom Girl Solfanello Home Front Melting Belle Olympian Star Princess Balkan Snowshoe Star Flight Sweet Agrion Star Belle Onyxboy Perim Patrol Camelotte Gay Meric Newcross Tree Flame Pant Beggar Rose Jovial Lady Melting Feenagh Fine Meltena Goldel Dab Chick Richard Charles Meteor Girl Easy Gold Cambee and others listed with weights and positions.
The West Australian Trotting Association invites nominations for the Sires Produce Stakes of 1948 with entries from NSW Victoria SA Tasmania NZ and WA due by June 18 1945 with late nominations to July 16 1945. Progeny yearlings nominations due June 10 1946 with late date July 15 1946. Race for three year old colts and fillies run over one and a half miles harness. The committee may cancel nominations anytime. R N Percival secretary.
An Anson bomber with failed compass and radio searched low cloud on Wednesday morning for a landing site before fuel ran out. It sighted Goomalling forced-landing ground and landed with V A OC assistance. A second Anson guided by Guildford crew arrived. both aircraft landed safely about two hours after the incident.
A famed Chancellor Lord Halsbury nearly faced disaster when horses bolted during the Jubilee Procession. He calmly used his legal mind and shouted to the coachman to steer toward something cheap as danger loomed.
Selection notes list numerous handicap entries and horse names across stations with scattered legible items such as Flaming Monarch and Merredin Handicap. The readable names include Onyxboy Camelette Star Flight and Howie Wing, but many fragments remain incomplete.
London reports post mortems on Essen Krupp works to gauge attack effects and hasten Japan’s defeat. Osaka raids unleash 450 Super Fortresses dropping 3200 tons of fire on the city as Allied air power piles up in Europe. Britain invites Food Chiefs of several nations to a conference amid a bare world larder and Europe faces lean times ahead with production at a low ebb and food needs ballooning. Sweden allegedly aided Danish resistance with secret arms shipments, a subterfuge praised as quiet justice in a war of deception.
Bank officials report that widespread use of not striking out the word bearer on cheques has eased the labor of verifying endorsements and reduced processing effort.
Readers are urged to check the ad pages for buying and selling ideas. The column promotes advertising poultry hatching eggs plants household goods and used items at fair prices. It notes readers across 25 newspapers and offers rate details on request.
A humorous fragment shows a customer asking to learn the telephone after an arranged appointment. The operator, rosy and eager, asks what she can do, while the man repeats his request to learn the device. The playful scene captures early telephone service in a quaint, period voice.
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