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Newspaper
Bunbury Herald
Location
Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 27, 1917
Page
2
Wilson and Johns promote seeds and plants for farm or garden with large stocks including dwarf Essex rape subterranean clover lucerne and Weite. Catalogues post free and twelve packets of vegetable seeds for four shillings sixpence. Fruit trees also offered. Address 70 Barrack St Perth.
News from Bunbury confirms Lieutenant R. J. Lanyon of A Company 28th Battalion, once a Bunbury Union Bank teller, was killed in action on May 3. Also notes a dairying lecture by J M B Connor at the Council Chambers and a Lyric Theatre program with French bombardment images. skating sessions scheduled. Sergt Gipp leaving Bunbury Recruiting Office for an important military post.
Messrs Dawson and Harrison Perth florists occupy the Lyric Theatre frontage for a week with a large collection of pot plants and pot herbs and urge horticulture fans not to miss this sale. Weather closes routes as a bridge near Nannup washes away delaying Busselton mail. enlistments list Bunbury doctor approved volunteers with a few rejections. a WWI cough advert promotes Woods Great Peppermint Cure.
Mrs Belcher of Waterloo receives a letter from Major A H Kelly Jopp detailing Sergt H Belcher's death after a gun dugout shelling in Delville Wood on December 2. The letter praises his coolness under fire, loyalty, and dependable leadership, noting his senior rank and cherished friendship with his battery colleagues.
Mr Peter O Loughlin and Mr Alex McCallum spoke at the Rechabite Hall in Banbury during the South-West District ALF meeting. They urged support for Labour policies, condemned conscription shifts, defended the movement, discussed postwar return of soldiers and needs for protective industry and domestic commerce reforms.
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