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Newspaper
Geraldton Express
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 14, 1913
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR mentions 438,073 units sold and overseas correspondents in London Melbourne or Fremantle. It references a weekly melee and special offers at Premyas warvhews with pink lowent weeks. Names and details are garbled, but the core notes sales figures and international signals survive.
Court orders service by post and newspaper advertising for the Writ of Summons in the action between Frostingham Tron and Steel Company Limited and John Keith. It directs posting to the defendant at Geraldton and publication in The West Australian and a Geraldton newspaper twice. Charles P. Sorter acting as Associate and John Moss of Moss and Dwyer Solicitors provide the order and addresses.
Shipping agents Meera Burns and Co Ltd publish stowage movements of their stewards. Dimboola sails Fremantle to the Eastern States on Wednesday June 18. Wandilla sails Fremantle to the Eastern States on Saturday May 24. Winfield sails from Newcastle with 2000 tons of coal on Friday May 1 daylight.
Shipping notices show vessels including Gorgon leaving Fremantle for Geraldton on May 2nd and other ships bound for North-Westport, Java and Sinepore in May. Charon departs for Mantle around June 6 with Singapore travel mentioned. Paroo sails Fremantle to Curstdton and Nor-West yurte. Riverina to Albany with May 17 timing.
On May 14 1913 a review of Australia's constitutional framework. It argues the high court limits Parliament's domestic powers and warns of evolving commerce and capital shaping welfare. The piece questions sincerity of reformers while noting economic forces and political tension.
A fragmentary editorial argues rising food costs stem from uncontrolled global markets and combines. It urges tough government action to regulate life’s necessities, protect workers, and grant Parliament power to regulate trade and prices, led by Andrew Fisher.
The text notes limited opportunities for conservation in the Easter States, cites a small area near a Serpentine walk including Murray, Harvey, Collie, and Brunswick, and mentions water training and land drainage concerns amid a defending authority’s claim about population and cultivation.
In a fragmentary local item, mentions of rain and points tally mix with a 1863 note from the Wet Australian about an York Agricultural Society led expedition seeking suitable retirement land. The account names leaders Lefroy and Robison, describes water shortages, and hints at eventual discovery of eastern goldfields. Prices and items follow in an Angelbrecht advertisement.
At a conference in Avon Valley Northam mayor C L Bernard warned the state had nearly sold off twenty ten million acres of wheat lands, with fifteen million inside the wheat belt. He urged halting further alienation to focus on developing existing holdings and storing water. He cited the Avon Mort jug catchment and NSW projects, stressing universal water conservation as vital for the state and commonwealth amid scarce perennial streams.
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