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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 28, 1913
Page
5
Readers in Colac debate Labour organization and employer relations amid concerns about civil liberty and coercion. The writers warn against boycotts and strikes as threats to workers and the broader community, urging lawful reform and protection of workers' rights within the state.
The clipping lists declared weights for oversous events at the Cressy Tort with numerous horse names and odds, followed by a narrative of a motor accident near Lismore involving THOS DARCY and others, then advertising copy about handbags, chronic chest cure, and wanted livestock and goods with rewards.
A reader asks about Victoria Hall overcrowding and potential fire risks, urging immediate action for safety. Another letter questions farmer aims to fix prices through Parliament, debating effects on bran, pollard, and wheat prices and rural wages.
The trust levies a rate on all rateable property within its area under the Railway Lands Act. The schedule sets the division amounts for the period ending 30 September 1913. The rate is due and payable at the trust office on 6 June 1913.
At New Auction Mart on Murray Street the sale opens at 2 o clock with items including vegetables apples potatoes assorted furniture and household items such as tables blinds beds chairs dressers and kitchen ware listed for cash on fall hammer. The catalog mentions animals and farm equipment with terms stated as cash on fall hammer.
Friday at Danahera Yards at 2 o clock Joyce late H D Thomas will hold their next sale by auction cattle sheep horses hides skins tallow produce etc good buyers expected Tuesday next in June on the premises Queen Street near railway crossing at 2 o'clock sharp high class furniture sale
Racing programme lists trial handicap and several sprints at a May turf meeting with ponies and amateur riders, plus a public auction by H. Joyce Thomas offering furnishings and effects with cash terms and no reserve. The items include a Blackwood sideboard a leather suite oak h e dboard and a range of household goods.
Colac June 6 at rear premises near Dalgety and Co pig sale yards at 2 pm. Skins hides tallow goods and a fortnightly sale of sheep skins calves entries invited. Special trains from Colac and Ballarat. Auctioneer Thomas Joyce with J Mphail supervision for betting.
A chaotic collage of livestock and goods auctions and private sales across Colac Geelong Apollo Bay Laver's Hill and surrounding regions. Public auctions by Dalgety and Co and Algety and Co list store pigs fat cattle sheep horses dairy cattle and miscellaneous sundries with varied dates times and yard locations. Private sales advertise prime dairy land and wheat land in New South Wales and extensive furniture and household items at Anketell's.
A nineteenth century racing note outlines several handicap events with stakes and distances. Fixtures include a ten furlong trial for horses under twenty sovereigns, a hurdles race over two miles 144 yards, a winter handicap one mile, and steeplechase about two miles. Entries show nom and acceptance figures and pacing rules.
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