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Newspaper
Bunbury Herald
Location
Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 30, 1917
Page
2
TLSON & JOHNS advertise seeds and plants for farm and garden with large stocks of Dwarf Essex Rape Subterranean Clover Hunter River Lucerne and other vegetables. Catalogues post free and a twelve packet vegetable seeds offer for 4s 6d, fruit trees available. Address: 70 Barrack St Perth.
Local and General notes a spoon shoot over the five and six hundred yards ranges scheduled for tomorrow. Also reports Corporal Mervyn Offer, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Offer of Burekup, wounded June 1st, with left arm amputated. Special Offer offers guaranteed fast dyes, Ladies Black Cotton Hose at 2/3 imports. Serial debut The Hangman's Noose by John L. Carter. Returned Soldiers meet at the Recruiting Office tomorrow at 6 am to form a branch of the Returned Soldiers Association. Trench Comforts Fund workers meet Friday at 7.30 pm in the Council Chamber to prepare comforts for the front. Sailors Rest program featured Mrs Baylis, W S Hailes presiding, with songs, recitals, Farce, and presentations. next Tuesday further program by Miss Cons.
Messrs Dawson and Harri son, leading florists and seeds, have taken the shop in front of the Lyric Theatre for one week only. They offer a lovely variety of pot plants, roses, and other plants for sale or private sale and auction starting from June 28. Further particulars from Narragin Trading and Agency Co. Ltd., Bunbury.
The Half yearly Meeting of Rate payers will be held at the Council Chambers on Monday July 2 at 8 p m with the Mayor's Report and General Business. W J Norrie Town Clerk. Council Chambers 23rd June 1917. Public Works Tender notices for Boyanup School Quarters Renovations and Repairs invited by Hon the Minister for Works until noon July WW. Under Secretary for Public Works O A Munt. Also a meeting of Returned Soldiers at the Recruiting Office Banbury on Sunday July's at 10 am to form a Branch of the RS Conveners H T Shaw Lieut Scrut Peake Recruiting Officer and Corporal Robinson.
The Narrogin Trading & Agency Co Ltd advertises Adamax Rooting Felt as a durable cheaper alternative to galvanized iron. Government stock is on hand, with rolls 72 ft long by 3 ft wide, covering 22 square yards for 32 shillings. Cement and nails supplied free. catalogs available.
Jams are plentiful though apricot preserve missing from one list. Wreath omissions include Bunbury Tennis Club Rath Mines Girls Friendly Society Teachers and Scholars Bunbury School Mrs E Spencer and Mrs Cornish. Mr Ford credited for Conors lecture photographs. Diocesan funds appeal funds Anglican parishes. Pot plant sale by Dawson and Harrison in Bunbury front Lyric Theatre. Lyric Theatre offers Costello film program plus Fox feature Little Miss Happiness and The Hero of Submarine D2. Skating rink details promised later and a poetic reminder ends with Woods Great Peppermint Cure.
The Governor intends to visit Bunbury to open the Allies Carnival. A meeting at the Soldiers Institute on Monday at 7.30 p.m. will arrange Emblem Day for next Saturday. Ducks draw on Picture Night July 9. Tickets via Mrs Stokes. Masque Ball July 18 for the Canadian stall funds at the Drill Hall. Mayoress to open the Baby Show July 4. Voting cards results due by Monday evening. Cards and money accepted by Mrs Rose and Miss Mitchell at the Lyric Theatre Wednesday 11 to 12. Open voting ends 9.30. Refreshments available and volunteer help requested.
The Commissioner for the South West Mr J M B Connor gave a three hour lecture at Council Chambers on dairying and allied branches. He urged tighter farm layouts smaller paddocks and crop rotation to boost output and warned WA lags behind other states. He demonstrated soil preparation clover use nitrogen fixation and various fodder crops while stressing clean sheds milking machinery lighting shade and water. He warned about tuberculin testing for dairy stock and noted 34 percent of tested herds were tubercular. He discussed stock selection pigs horses and irrigation and framed a need for more farmers to adopt land-based livelihoods.
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