Social events fill Fremantle calendar with dances and fairs
St Johns GFS hosts Parents Evening in Victoria Hall on Aug 20 and Silver Chain Party for children on Sep 2 at Town Hall. Fremantle Hospital plans new Men's Ward as funding and sites are discussed. Variety of charity balls and dances fill the season, including a Novelty Ball at Hamilton Hill and Palmyra Football Club fundraisers with prizes and social events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s G.F.S
Victoria Hall
St. John’s Girls
Queen Victoria Street
South Fremantle Suburban Association
Hamilton Hill Memorial Hall
Fremantle
Hamilton Hill
South Fremantle Football Club
Dam
Mesdames Dunn
Francis
Rowe
Hocking
Cooper
G. Byrnes
J. Reid
Doris Whistrom
B. Mitchell
Hilda Baker
Mr. McGlosky
Misses Winfield
Outram
Bromley
C. Rowe
Clark
Jean Winfield
M. Jackson
Cottesloe Notes on Society Garden Competition and Meeting
A Cottesloe Leach Horticultural Society meeting at the Town Hall on July 25, presided by Mr Brown, heard on plant feeding from Mr Stringfellow. A monthly flower display competition runs, with a tea service trophy and a decorated bowl trophy. A joint amateur spring garden competition for Cottesloe Beach district residents aims to beautify the area with two judges visiting gardens to award points across hedges lawns beds vegetables fruit and premises. Entries due August 25 with competition Sept 1 to Oct 31 1925.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cottesloe Leach Horticultural Society
Brown
Stringfellow
Cottesloe Beach
Palmyra Football Club Hosts 100 Gentle Guests at Soldiers Institute
The Palmyra footballers entertained about 100 guests including many young women at the Soldiers' Institute last Saturday. The ballroom was decorated with streamers and ferns, music delighted the crowd, and the encore fiend kept the dancers on their toes throughout the evening. The Ladies' Committee served a sumptuous supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul's Choir
Mary Hurst
Brae
Bull
M. Hurst
W. Gilbert
D. Peake
Palmyra
Soldiers' Institute
Thrift Advice for Youth and Government Savings
A moral exhortation urges young people to use money and time carefully, save for illness and emergencies, and avoid waste. It advocates thrift as personal virtue and as a duty to the country, endorsing government loans as safe savings for boys and girls.
Farming as a Career Scheme Proposed by Mr. Chandler
Mr. T. C. Chandler urges a group of about 40 boys aged 14 to pursue farming as a career. The three year class would include geography, metal and woodwork, economics, and agricultural science. Land would be reserved for each boy, with post program advancement through foreman supervision and the Agricultural Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Chandler
Town Hall
Chandler
Agricultural Bank
Goldfields Leader Urges Gold Bonus Revival in Debate
In the Legislative Council, Mr Kirwan urged the advantages of gold yields and mining revival, arguing the Goldfields deserve a bonus to spur state growth. The Premier P Collier backed the plan at Boulder, signaling support for a nationwide gold production bonus. Woods' Great Pearsrmint Cure is also mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legislative Council
Kirwan
Fremantle Anchorage Debate in 1845 Gazette
The Perth Gazette reports Fremantle’s Owen's Anchorage as the coast’s safest harbor, noting gales in the week prior but no ship damage to the Emma Sheratt while anchored there. C Y McConnor praises its blue mud bottom and holding capacity, urging use as relief anchorage. Owens Anchorage is known locally as Robb's Jetty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perth Gazette
Fremantle
Emma Sherratt
Owen
Gage Roads
C. Y. McConnor
Owens Anchorage
Robb
Customs notice amends tariff 25 240 on mineral oil for insecticide oils
The Collector of Customs notes a telegram from the Comptroller-General stating tariff decision 25/240 amending mineral lubricating oil used for insecticide oils under tariff item 404. The amendment applies only to oil in direct transit on June 22, 1925 and entered for home consumption on or before August 10, 1926. In‑bond oil must also be entered by that date if the importer wishes to use the by‑law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collector of Customs
M. Sk. Synan
Comptroller-General of Customs
Rees Cash Chemist Ad for Fremantle Beach Shop
The notice advertises Rees as a cash chemist at Fremantle and Cottesole Beach offering night and day service with first aid for coughs colds and influenza and Woods Great Peppermint Cure featured.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fremantle Hospital
F. W. Munsie
Cecile
Soldiers’ Institute
Palmyra Football Club
A. Stewart
T. Leece
Mesdames Phipps
Williams
Patella
Ways and Means Committee
Como
Hell
RSL
Lady Campion
Miss Byron
Major Kerr-Pearse
Cooke
J. B. Sleeman
M.L.A
Baldwin
Campion
J. Cooke
Angus McLeod
Leo
Miss B. Chase
Miss C. Riley
Miss Langley
Miss Field
Miss Holland
Charmeuse
Ackland
Arliss Robinson
Miss J. McKay
Miss G. Bishop
M. Turton
Miss Richards
Miss Hutchinson
Miss Batson
Miss Barrell
Miss Erskine
Maisie Jones
Miss
Vandall
A. McKay
Miss Tierney
Miss Easton
Miss B. Bolger
Miss Terry
Miss J. College
Miss Armstrong
Miss Nicholson
Miss G. Turton
Miss Cain
Mrs. Clarkson
Cottesloe
H. Smith, Esq
N.S.W
MR. T. C. Chandler
MR. Kirwan
Owen’s Anchorage
Historicus
Sunday Times
Cockburn Sound
J. W. Davies
Union Stores
OWL and Color Merchants
E. R. Snell Manning
High
William Streets
E. Cronin
South Terrace
Tiffie Cooke
J. Brennan
Melbourne
P. Saunders Baker
Duke Street
MAST
Bert Seymour
Butcher
Sea View
South Fremantle
Supreme Court OF
A. Hood
Henry ST
High ST
Sheedy
Ma Solomon Street
A. Black
State
the Oddfellows’ Hotel
the Taxpayers’ Association OF W.A. Ltd
AMP. Chambers
William Street
Perth
Louis E. Horne
F.a.ls
Fordson
Jenkins
Wagga
Ford
F.O.R
F.O.B
Ford Assembly
Ford Motor Company OF Australia Pty. Ltd
the Universal Tractor
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