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Newspaper
Bunbury Herald
Location
Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 07, 1912
Page
8
Information from Bunbury reports that at a Fire Sea Board meeting District Officer Stokes, longtime head of the South West Division, was appointed organizer of the state's volunteer fire brigades. The role offers good pay and promising promotion for Super Bakes.
Patt Steel offers 12g and 14g substitutes for 6g and 10g ordinary wire. They claim 50 percent saving on first cost and 260 percent on transport. Also advertise DINGO brand feel wire 12 gauge and other wire types.
The report recalls a 250 yard race where Alphonso led to 100 yards then faded. Wenn Sinclair and Holtzmann finished first through third, followed by James Cooke Halkyard and McCombe. Teede struggles to hit form while Halkyard and Sinclair show speed. Subjoined are tomorrow's handicaps and team race prospects.
Nineteen trucks of chaff and four of oats and one of wheat were offered at the Railway sales. Chaff sold up to £4 5s and £4 2s 6d, oats brought 26s 3d and 25s 34d, and wheat passed in at 8s 8d. Stores and goods. Mineral waters and cordials are supreme.
Vic's Pictures presents a mixed bill at the Lyric Theatre featuring A Maiden of pie-faced Indian a farce by Edison, Thelma by Selig, and Jeries Marie Corelli's Armataia adapted by Biograph plus Winter Sports at St Morita and The Fight for the Championship among other acts. A Kidnapped Pearl and Brutus add to the program with colorful scenes and thrills while a fierce boxing tale and a $100,000 challenge headline the bill ending with a surprise during the night.
The Lyric Theatre will host National Pictures program including Edison drama The Oath and the Man, Old Man's Heroism Gan drama Over the Garden Wall Vitagraph drama The Policeman Cines drama German Squadron in Baltic Sea Canadian scenic Gorges of Triege.
A. O. Barnes of Benger in December laments long delays in the Bunbury to Perth telephone line. He recounts waiting hours for a connection to Central and a missed delivered message, noting a 25 hour wait and higher charges due to line interruptions.
The notice lists morning and afternoon services across churches including St Pauls Cathedral with Holy Eucharist at 8 am and 11 am, sermons by the Rector, a 4 pm Confirmation, and a 7:30 pm Evensong led by the Bishop, plus services at Barrick's Rathmines David's South Bunbury and Picton Hall with Matins and Holy Communion. Congregational and Wesleyan services follow in Australind Perth with memorials and choir items noted.
J G Reynolds longtime South-West resident and popular agriculturist came to the State from England in 1842. He settled at Fern Hill then Gingin and the Lower Blackwood at Talbarragup before his death. A large funeral crowd paid last respects on Thursday afternoon.
Ratepayer from Bunbury urges the Church of England grounds to be made available for mothers and nurse girls to take little children in during summer. He suggests appealing to the Bishop and proposes opening the area in front of Hayward and Son, noting barbed wire fencing and speculating on hidden treasure.
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