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Newspaper
Geraldton Express
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Feb 17, 1909
Page
4
A Goldfields pioneer narrates a trek through Montague Ranges and Lake Way country. He describes loading horses, locating reef prospects, selling gold, and trials with water scarcity, legal delays, and eventual exploration toward Cue and Lake Wells, noting meetings with multiple locals and prospecting teams.
Dalgety and Co report February market activity with strong lamb and ewe demand and clearances. Pigs, fat lambs, and fat cattle show solid prices. horses and miscellaneous stock sold with limited buyers present. Listings include wethers and ewes, mares, a draught mare, and various cattle consignments with tas tites and prices noted.
A reminiscence details attempts to contact officials about the poor, noting letters go astray. The narrator recalls guiding exploration near York and the lakes, aiding Mewar and Cowan, stock moves to Upper Murchison, Bayra Plains, Gascoyne track, and Lyndon county explorations with Lefroy Bros. (Concluded)
Messrs Dalgety and Co report a large, representative attendance from Geraldton Perth and surrounding districts at Moora on Friday for a special stock sale. Principal lines sold on behalf of J A Game included ewes lambs hogget and lambs with prices ranging to 39 fat lambs and several rams and draught animals.
Two serious signals of kidney ills are outlined with symptoms like tinny or brick-dust urine and abnormal urination. Mrs E Wittaker of Marine Terrace Gerakiton endorses Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills, claiming strong kidneys since use, and urges sufferers to try them. Pills sold by chemists at 2/1 per box, six boxes 15/3, from Fonter McClellan Us 841 Murray Street Perth. Be sure you get DOAN'S.
Testimonial from Mrs. TT Touhy of Franklyn Street Adelaide asserts Bile Beans cured years of biliousness, headaches, and stomach distress. She claims rapid relief, lasting recovery, and urges readers to use the product for digestion liver and digestive disorders. Price details and sizes follow for family use.
Al J Warth reports Saturday 13th market results with fruit and vegetable prices incl peaches 7d to 12d per lb, apples 8d to 10d, grapes 6d, pears, watermelons, cabbages 1s 4d per cwt, pumpkins and marrows, onions 8s 6d per cwt, potatoes 10d, poultry prices for fowls 7d to 1s 0d, ducks 8s 1d, gobblers 2s 2d, hens 1s, pigeons 2s 4d. wheat prices noted.
Advertisement for a flexible deck chair series named Sea-Sickness B and Easy cor. Sold by JOHNNY-ALL SORTS as sole agent. Geraldton Express notes weekly publication and offer details for twelve months prepaid at 128 6d.
Hemosthly councillors with the Town Clerk and Mayor pass accounts totaling ENGh 1. Discussions cover a steel sign-board for new premises, condemnation options for a Marine Terrace property, and a debate on council policy amid changing membership. A volunteer fire brigade funding status is clarified, road repairs near Marine Terrace debated, and a park behind the Presbyterian Church proposed as a camping ground. A combined Municipal Society photo is arranged and the estimates hearing date set for June.
In a council session Dr Hungerfond pushed a motion to allow the health inspector to collect licenses without a third person, suspend all works not essential to town health and cleanliness, while Dr Beate supported the motion as not interfering with their pair ing. The committee later carried Hungerfora's motion after extensive discussion.
The document outlines estimated receipts and expenditures for a municipal period including General Wages Audit Fees Plant Tools and Appliances Interest on Loan Sinking Funds and various services. It lists specific items such as Town Hall Rents Lighting Parks Sanitary Wages Fire Brigade Subsidy and Disinfection measures alongside loans and allowances.
The Upper Chapman Roads Board met January 4 with chairmen and members listed. Reports covered water vesting at Northern Gully, funding for a well, Norris Road inspection, various correspondence, tenders, and planned roadway works and inspections.
M Spence formerly of the Miners Arms Northampton announces he has taken over a new up to date hotel near the railway station. He appeals to old friends and patrons to visit and be ready to contact him for catering at the Ta ir conve.
Ambitious farmers urged to boost yields by manuring crops with Abrolhos Guano as phrased in a period advertisement. A separate note touts Wolf a Schnapps as the purest distilled spirit for human use, offered in wholesale bottles.
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