21 Aug 1930
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Newspaper
Fremantle The Advertiser
Location
Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 21, 1930
Page
1
A letter from Fremantle signer Onlooker criticizes intruding into another member’s electorate without invitation. It notes Arthur’s Head lies in Fre mantle and asserts Mr McCallum as South Fremantle MP has no locus standi. Sleeman’s constituents should seek explanation for his silence.
City of Fremantle invites tenders for street cleansing and inlet drainage maintenance including constant cleansing of stormwater inlets gutters flushing and removal of sweepings. Tenders to be submitted to the council with details of the work and terms.
A narrator recalls taking the Prime Minister's call to produce more and quits wharf work to buy a poultry farm at Spearwood. He and his wife invest £50, facing misadventures with hens, roosters, feed, and eggs while joining local social groups, councils, and unions in a humorous, rambling account of small town ambition and community figures.
The Hon G Fraser MLC asked in the House about sewerage installation in East Fremantle and the timing. The Leader of the House replied that work will be considered on the 1931 32 Loan Estimates.
A colonial cure named Woods' peppermint is promoted as a remedy for children's hacking coughs. The ad-like notice touts its soothing peppermint properties and family use, reflecting period medicine marketing.
The piece highlights Aboriginal Australians as a vanishing yet unknown race due to colonization. It praises Rev J R B Love for translating Mark into Worrora and plans to translate the rest of the New Testament, arguing spiritual prosperity over material wealth and urging faster aid to the native communities.
The annual Producers Conference, highly regarded by primary producers, passed resolutions on dock construction at Fremantle, amending Harbour Trust representation, sea water treatment for toredo borers, and immediate port improvements at Esperance to support a 70 000 acre harvest. It also supported a limited gold bonus to offset wartime gold commandeering.
A quirky wartime note questions what one officer said after his car started itself off on a holiday joyride. The auto wandered and knocked over a double gate, prompting speculation about reactions and the era’s mechanized misfires.
A speaker urges men like Mr. Love to reclaim honesty of purpose right doing and brotherhood to avoid becoming a vanishing race, warning that moral erosion harms the community and future generations.
The report shows federation support with 44 652 yes votes and 19 635 no votes, a majority of 25 016 in favour. Fremantle and the four suburbs each delivered two Yes majorities, yielding an aggregate Fremantle district Yes majority of 1 546 from 798 votes recorded.
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