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Newspaper

Colac Herald

Location

Colac, Victoria, Australia

Date

Apr 09, 1913

Page

5

Colac Sporting Notes And Fixture Highlights

Sporting notes reveal interest in ANA versus HACB8 cards match with eight teams split for eribbage and euchre, plus potential maps if more players join. Tennis club votes Miss Pearson’s resignation and a send-off plan. Ascot racing results list winners across divisions, with detailed handicaps. A Colac LOR ladies versus Swastizen cricket match is set for Saturday, and Besac Gun Club opens with G Gost Trophy at 1 pm.

A.N.A H.A.C.B Colac Colac Cricket Ground L.O.R. Ladies Swastizen (Ladies) Cricket Club Warrnambool

Rainfall and growth praised in Pennyroyal March report

March rainfall in Pennyroyal totaled 586 points, below last year's 712, with heavy, continuous rain and thunderstorms on the 9th and 18th. The period saw little hot weather, some snow on the 20th, but overall crops and milk supply improved, with potatoes clean and blight free and maize reaching 12 feet in height.

Pennyroyal Polate Dakota Storch

Department of Agriculture salaries under scrutiny in Melbourne

Our Melbourne letter reports frustration within the Department of Agriculture over low salaries for experts like Hawkine and Potta ftour. It cites departures to New South Wales, calls for honest leadership, and notes broader public service pay issues affecting retention and morale. It also touches shipping updates and a lucky prize win in Sydney Cup, plus urban stress on nerves amid city life.

Department of Agriculture Hawkine Potta Jawkesbury College New South Wales Rene Bia Jabarex Howard Smith Canberra Australia England Denman Melbourne Harbor Trust Melbourne Evening Paper Cer

Strange tale of missing missioner in London and decoy abduction

North London stirred as Frederick Haverley, missioner of Gospel Hall Mission, recounts being lured from a Haverstock Hill hall by two men. He says they drugged him, drove him to an underground chamber, and tortured him with a lock and chair apparatus while pressuring him to retract statements and apologise. He returned home later with a branding mark on his forehead and £6 missing.

London Frederick Haverley Gospel Hall Mission Lismore-airens Haverstock Hill Haverley Kentish Town Bedfordshire Haverstock Road Thas I Inquisition Council

Lord Haldane on Order Lines in Germany’s Rise

Lord Haldane writes a prefatory note to Germany in the Nineteenth Century. He argues Germany’s modern vitality springs from the Reformation and a late eighteenth to early nineteenth century current blending statesmanship with thought. He urges mutual study and cooperation among nations to spread civilization and dispel suspicions through shared knowledge.

Haldane Germany Berlin Greece Wiledlee

Terrible Night of Fear Reported by Witness

A witness recalls being chased and assaulted in the countryside near a village. A motor lorry offered help, a driver ferried him under a tarpaulin to Holloway Road, then on toward Blackfriars and Surrey. He vows to identify the driver and pursue accountability.

Ervant Holloway-rosd Blackfriars Surrey

Auctioneer listings and property sales advertisement

The page advertises multiple sales and auctions led by Thomas Joyce and Algety Co Limited in Colac and Barwon areas. Items include cattle sheep horses hides tallow produce and farm machinery plus numerous houses and farms for sale with payments and depots. Also pig sales by Algety Co Limited with entries invited and public auction notices for Fortnightly pig sales and additional property auctions.

Algety & CO. Limited Will Bell Lgbty & CO Bell Lattle Alvie Besac T, Clarke Poliah Creger Ayrshire Algety & Co, Limited Algety ¢ CO Uatile Sheep Horses NPTES Wni Caulf Sheep Piga ALGETY # CO. LIMITED Wilh Bell Sundriea J G. Johnstone

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