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Newspaper
Geraldton Express
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 25, 1915
Page
2
Starting Friday the 29th the Big Store launches a four week summer sale with highly discounted prices. Sale circulars are at printers and ready for circulation on opening day. A preview of the circular promises the cheapest sale yet in town. See our safe windows Thursday afternoon.
A cluttered clipping covers events in Geraldton including drugstore sales by H S Mackenzie Co and Mrs B A Ud furniture auction, with local notes on the Grimshaw Valley scheme, water supply disputes, and ratepayer concerns. It mentions transfers of hotel licenses and a ballroom admission event at East Chapman Hall with a hot air peppered legal and civic context.
The Adelaide Shipping Company reports ves sel movements with Alfings leaving Sydney on 26 and Adelaide on 2 March for Melbourne and various ports to Derby on a Saturday schedule Warilda departs Fremantle for Eastern States at noon on a Saturday Fannaey and Warndy sail from Sydney to Melbourne and Fremantle to New Zealand and Geraliion routes Wollowra Innamineka Cantara sustain weekly Melbourne to Cairns service via multiple eastern ports Burns Philip Co Ltd notes Fremantle departures with Kurnalot, Rapunds, Tambools Joavex Pretuanti, Indurry Wives Premantie, Karoola, Katoomba with various targeting of Eastern States and dates in February and March.
Discontent grows over municipal valuations with claims that land values are overstated while state and federal taxes reflect these figures. Critics urge fairer valuations to ease tax payments, warn against overdrafts, and note little change in true land values since last year amid a weak economy.
Local tenders accepted for contracts in the district include a school partition project in Geraldton and a £417 45 bid by J Aitken for classroom work. The mayor receives a request for 20 more volunteers for overseas service, urging men to enroll by sending names to the Council Chambers. Beardy Greenough River runs about four feet. wildlife is plentiful. fishermen report fish in the stream. A charity meeting at the fire station plans an afternoon procession led by the Darktown Hand and Fire Brigade to raise funds, with a Darktown Auction and Polo Club items to be featured. A follow up meeting is scheduled for Tuesday at 8.00.
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