Boans Specials Offer Wide Range of Fabrics and Garments
Bargains listed include natural straw hats, white flannelette petticoats, unrinmined Breton suitors, calico outfits, and bodices. Hats for ladies with fleeced linings, bloomers, children's felt hats, trimmed millinery, and elastic waist garments. Coats, rainwear, dresses, knits, and matron cloth fabrics featured with prices in shillings and pence. Many items highlight colors and styles, with week-long special pricing and stock in various sizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calica
Lina
Murray Street Perth Local Flour and Grain Prices
Historic pricing list for Murray Street Perth detailing local flour varieties including Reller Flour Half-ton and single bag options, Wheatmeal Crushed Wheat Oats and Maize per bushel, seed oats Linseed meal nitrates and various fertilizers. Includes contact for Robert Forrest with telephone numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reller
Calcutta
Taylors
Robert Forrest
Telaphone
Dental Surgeon Mr E W Dermer Opens Bunbury Clinic
Mr E W Dermer a practicing dental surgeon announces a new office at the corner of Victoria and Wallington Streets Bunbury offering general dental services and patient care in the local community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria and
Wallington Streets
Bunbury
Wilson and Johns Seedsmen Catalog Offers Plants and Seeds
WILSON & JOHNS SEEDSMEN advertise roses rape subterranean clover hunter river lucerne and more. Large stacks of seeds and plants for farm use available with post free catalogues. peas and beans excluded. Address 70 Barrack St Perth.
Alan Pane of Bun a Bury Relief Fund Meeting
The final meeting for the relief fund will be held at Council Chambers at 4 30 on Thursday 21st June with Amy Mitchell Captain of the Collectors. An illustrated lecture by J M B Connor Commissioner for Agriculture in the South West will be delivered at the same venue on Tuesday 26th June at 8 p.m. Topic Dairying and its allied Branches. Mayor J G Baldock 78th June 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amy Mitchell
South-West
J. M. B. Connor
Dairying
G. Baldock
South West
J M B Connor
Council Chambers
Bunbury
Local notices and tenders from Western Australia 1917
BURY HARBOUR BOARD invites tenders for a 12 h.p. Brooke marine motor engine with magneto, propeller, shaft and accessories to be purchased by June 30 1917. Tenders may be inspected and full particulars obtained. no guarantee of acceptance. Other notices: works contract tenders for Roelands and Marrinup School Quarters due July 3 and June 19 respectively. meteor sale June 25 at 2 p.m. by GEO. E. CLARKE. clerk vacancy for an office worker at Bunbury. munitions workers sought via St George's Terrace Perth or Bunbury recruiting office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooke” Marine Motor
Cope
Roelands
Wakalup
Particulars Court House
Bun+bury
Marrinup
Banbury
Pinjarra
Trigwell Civilian Soldier Killed in Action in France
Private L. F. Trigwell of the 16th Battalion, reported killed in action on August 12 1916 somewhere in France. He was the beloved youngest son of Mrs Trigwell of Donnybrook and aged 23 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trigwell
France
L. F. Trigwell
Sen
16Th Battalion
Trigwall Donnybrook
Fremantle Trade Friction Sparks Political Scrutiny
A critical opinion argues Fremantle drains value from Western Australia through higher handling costs and bunkering limits. It questions imperial policy and centralisation, cites Perth interests pulling strings, and urges action by Sir John Forrest to curb cash circulation and boost WA prosperity.
Bunbury Harbour Board Report Sparks Centralisation Critique
The Bunbury Herald reports a Bunbury Harbour Board secretary's submission to Sir John Forrest, revealing that Fremantle secures coal bunkering and 19,000 tons are diverted from Bunbury. The piece lambasts centralisation as hindering Australia’s progress, noting Bunbury’s proximity to Collie coal mines and ongoing port neglect.
Vick Trophy Final Stage At Two And Three Hundred Yards
Local rifle shooting heats for the Vick Trophy reach the final stage next Sunday with sitters Hill, Keddie, Teede, Twenoweth, Buswell, and Hough leading the field. Hill and Buswell seen as likely winners given handicaps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill
Keddie
Teede
Twenoweth
Buswell
Hough
Bunbury seeks action over centralised bunkering loss
The Traders' Association forwards a detailed report to Sir John Forrest arguing Bunbury loses coal bunkering trade to Fremantle. It lists 40 vessels bunkering at Fremantle since January, shows 10,000 tons of Collie coal could have been loaded at Bunbury cheaper and quicker, and cites higher costs and delays from Fremantle. The letter urges port authorities to direct ships from the North to Rottenest and from the Cape to Breaksea to reclaim Bunbury’s coal trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bunbury
Fremantle
Harbour Board
McCops
Traders’ Association
John Forrest
Dansrylt Weith Collie
Collie
Albany
Brescia
Hadaha
Cape
Birtha
Lee Hatch
S. S. Nantwen
Port Said
Breaksea
Perth
Henderson
Banbury
Foreman
Cope
John Fourest
Monkhouse
Mr Minors
Minors
News from Bunbury War Notes and Local Notices
Parsonal reports Murvee Offer wounded in England and recovering well. Adnah Walker listed as prisoner of war in Germany. Will Clowes confirmed prisoner of war in Germany. Sergt Peake arrives as Bunbury recruiting organiser, ex 16th Light Horse. Lieut Underdown improving in Base Hospital Freemantle. Local booster piece on Wellington Hotel crowding. Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure advertised for coughs and colds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Offer
Burekup
Murvee
44Th Battalion
England
Adnah Walker
South Bunbury
G. R. Pittman
Donnybrook
Will Clowes
Germany
Sergi Peake
Bunbury
16Th Light Horse
Gallipoli
The Agricultural Industry and James Mitchell Critique
A foreign voice denounces James Mitchell over railway tarpaulin shortages hindering wheat transport in Western Australia. The piece accuses him of neglect, arguing farmers suffered under Spartan conditions while Wheat Empire profits advance, and calls for a new Railway Minister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremantle
Geraldton
Bunbury
Railway Department
James Mitchell
Mitchell
Sunday Times
Australia
Cabbits
Shin Wort
Also Mentioned on This Page
Onleaparinga
Futcher
Federal Clothing Palace Outfitter
Mankind
Boans
Underclothing and Children’s Department
Millinery Department
Costume Department
Simart
Chiildren
Manchester
Born
Este
Avarealil
L. R. Honey
Taranto
Victoriast
Wids
Jo Din
Bunbury and District
Mr. LB
HONEY
Saunders & Stuart Ltd
Kingst
Carr & CO
Murray Sts
Koomsana Flour Mill
E. W. Dermer
Albert & Son Limited
Murray St
Houns
Albert & Son Ltd
Spencer-street
F. W. Steere
Stephen-street
W.B. House
Beach Road
E. Stephen Hart
Victoria-street
Victoria Street
Betersn Relief Fund
Alan Pane
Bun A Bury
Pes Bury Harbour Board
Prac
Co. A. Munt
Pupze
A. Munt
Public Works
Geo. E. Clarke
H. M. Beigel
C. Tom
Linson
St. George's House
St. George's Terrace
America
W.A
The
Bunbury Herald
John, Forrest
Lyric Theatre
Lyric
Cherlie
Pauline Frederick
Swisikowaky
Gentralisation
Bunbury Harbour
Underdown
Wellington
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