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Newspaper
Geelong Advertiser
Location
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 03, 1925
Page
2
A dense, fragmentary scan blends horse racing claims, odds, and outcomes with scattered names and places. Amid the jumble are references to bets, runners, and race details, including mentions of Mediteranran, GATRALIAN HURDLE, and various jockeys, while other lines list odds and financial figures in a hurried, noisy format.
Advertisement listing multiple parcels including a snug farm of 14 acres, a house with five rooms and outbuildings, and several plots for residential development. Mentions price cues and plots near Newtown and Nantes Street with 126 feet box frontage and 25 to 10 shillings per foot rates. Emphasizes ready access to utilities and improvements.
Property offers five good rooms with lath and plaster construction. Central De Meier in Cupioints describes a villa with porcelain bathroom fittings, basin and ironworks. Includes woodshed wardhouse copper and tronelis. Garden and asphalt walk to tram and city centre within ten minutes. Inspection advised by terms.
Hendy Leary & Co offers a well kept residence on a tram line with four rooms and modern conveniences. Land about 60 by 180 feet, near colleges, with sewered amenities, rear additions, and long-distance owner leaving Geelong. Small monthly repayments may be arranged.
Splendidly built home in West Geelong with five rooms, Oregon frame, motor garage, sewered, porcelain bath, pantry, and modern comforts. Asking close to £930 with £250 deposit. two similar properties with 4–6 rooms described, including high school access nearby and street frontage on Government street.
JAONDOX July 31 Victoria jockey Prank Gemp sex faces a case inquiry but is present at Goodwood. He has digested piece erotclae for sticks and plans to return to the saddle in a fortnight.
August 2 at Mer Knox district. Thomas Brett, a known offender, was charged with larceny and received the maximum three month sentence after pleading guilty. Mr Knight noted the lengthy term may deter similar crime. Mrs Corrie Certo of Prince Street testified about an attempted theft involving a cloakroom incident at the transit station leading to Brett’s arrest.
A pasted stock table lists Mr J Deilly of Byrke Hoeet Gedloog with various securities and prices. Items include Commonwealth Government bonds, coal shares, breweries, Dunlop Preference, zinc and tin stocks, and other commodities with quoted per cent returns and cash values, reflecting a dense, fragmentary historical price sheet.
Roy J. Bandy, nine young man, appeared at City Court charged with stealing five leather suitcases and other articles valued at £33, property of the Railways Commissioner at Kenton, to be in court Aug 7 with £100 bail. Netsetive Bargeant and Walter Corrie of Bendigo testified they arrested Sandy at Badgowick and brought him to Melbourne. some goods were recovered.
In London on July trade notes show wheat cargoes arranged for delivery at £98 per ton with varied orders and shipments. Details are unclear due to fragmented OCR text but indicate ongoing logistics for grain shipments and pricing signals from buyers.
The notice lists closing times and routes for postal services from Geelong to Melbourne Ballarat Ballina and other destinations. It covers daily and weekly schedules for various mail lines including Coach Lines Anglia and Western Australia services with expected dispatch times and special handling for international mails to the United Kingdom Europe and Australia. It also notes arrival and departure dates for overseas and aerial mail services and regional Australian routes with specific departure days and times.
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