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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian And Express
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 07, 1929
Page
3
Advertises a broad range of ladies hosiery, gloves, artificial mile gloves, bags, handkerchiefs, and kids toys. Notes sale prices for items such as belts, boxes, perfume sprays, trays, mirrors, crepe fabrics, silk and crepe goods, and kiddies footwear. Also promotes mechanical trains, tool sets, musical horns, and festive Father Christmas displays with discounted prices.
A colorful shop window features a range of underclothing and textiles advertised for Xmas gifts. Items include bloomers, chemises, calico and cotton fabrics, linen and pillow products, and various table linens with prices and widths noted for customer selection.
The listing notes reductions across items including Reon Saxo Hhriaip and related goods. Prices are cut to the lowest sale level across the affected wares.
A clipped advertisement lists Hutten's Hams and a large stock variety including Guild for Ford tables, raisins, dried fruits, peaches and nectarines. It promotes Worcester and tomato sauces, pickles, nuts, and other pantry items with low sale prices per bottle or per unit. Prices are shown in old currency formats.
Listing of menswear items with low prices includes silk and cotton bond, handkerchiefs three for wa, fashion shirts five to nine, flannelette pyjamas five to eleven, work trousers zero to eleven, double seat denim with linen thread seven six, et al.
Readable lines advertise a variety of sponge cakes at 30 pence per item and loose cream biscuits at 1 shilling 4 pence. Milk Arrowroot and ginger snaps priced, with bicycle mention of Captain’s Bicyle-6d packet. Cream biscuits, aerated waters, and fruit tins listed with prices in predecimal currency.
A fragmented fiber goods notice lists Woncevete in Cream Pisk Bior Mawve 10/ii across yards and White Flannelette 36 inches wide 8/ demon plus Mosaic Hemtinc 90 eck. The readable items suggest a small textile sale or catalog entry.
Morowa-Merramooka posted 209 feet wickets with Erickson top scorer at 8 and Hepworth taking 52. North Midlowise Sanostation visitors bowled well but fell to a loss as Jed by Ram Esschuon and Takton Reif resisted. Stumps were drawn with Filton 22 not out and Browd 22 contributing. visiting side 00 all out as Browd and Brown dismissed for 0. Local bowlers Erickson 3 for 12 and Hepworth 2 for 15 led Morowa-Merramooka to victory by the end of play.
A novelty dress ball at Arrino Hall on November 29 attracted a large district crowd and visitors from Yandanooka, Munglinup, Carlam, Three Springs and Bells, with dancing until 2 am. Prizes were awarded to children and adults, including best dressed, best decored lady, and best freak costume, as the event supports Aduwa State School.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Perth and Ling with a note about matching at no charge. It is unclear and contains nonsensical phrases and cut terms. No definite event or entities beyond vague place names can be extracted for a reliable summary.
A Mingonew district farmer hired a steamboat stoker as a migrant worker for one day. The worker warned of leaving, citing heat. Temperatures in Mingenew reportedly reached 109. Officials and press debate a tropical allowance amid the uproar.
A fragmented report on the Carnamah Rifle Club describes a pointy petition, the President's Trophy event, and a Sunday run by Willie Fortseon. It notes a match against Wilt and mentions a memorial event for a fallen shooter with dated references and several unclear names and scores.
An official statement outlines how the Premier's Department backs butter production through the Group Settlement Scheme. Growth stems from new settlements and upgraded pastures in the South West, with 16,000 milking cows on group settlements producing about £241,466 yearly, and plans to attract expert instructors to boost herd testing and pasture cultivation.
An old tale recalls Mr. OShaughnessy driving a bullock team to the mines near Cue. He allegedly led 60 bullocks at Geraldton in 1501, paid a £2 landing fee per head, and used shoeing or casing to protect feet on sandy tracks. His cueing yards along Mullens to Cee are noted, with losses by a trailing horse team reported.
On November 26 the Dongarra State school and the Convent School were honoured by a visit from the Director of Education, Mr. W. Clubb, B.A., highlighting the ongoing ties between local schools and the regional education office.
A motorist reported vandals damaged a petrol tank with fire. police are investigating the incident in Kalgoorlie. No details on victims or extent of damage are confirmed, and authorities promise a prompt example of enforcement.
Fire destroyed a garage property in Russell Parvle owned by Millers Timber and Trading Co and occupied by E. J. Warren. The blaze also gutted a major cart and damaged another building as firefighters arrived. Warren awoke to smoke after a dog alert. No salvage possible.
Mro A. P. Boehr, an Adelaide importer and distributor of potatoes, is cited in a report on West Australian merchants increasing potato shipments and prices from $2 to higher levels, amid statements deemed insulting to international buyers.
Under the supervision of the Western Australian Fire Brigades Board the two permanent brigades and three volunteer brigades in Kalgoorlie district cost about 7000 pounds for the past year. Authorities say the local bodies bear substantial shares with insurers and government contributing. last year a profit of 873 pounds was carried forward. Local authorities will be asked to pay 2627 pounds this year with each municipality funding 1062 pounds and the Kalgoorlie Rams Board 303 pounds.
The Kalgoorlie railway empire earns praise for its system 4 checking and mechanical devices enabling transfer of mail bags from broad gauge to the parts gauge and back. Overseas travel swells bag volumes ahead of Christmas with 140 bags moved recently and 1280 last Sunday as mail traffic rises. The author notes Kalgoorlie’s faster, smoother service compared with other Australian routes and expects volumes to grow with the season.
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