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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 16, 1918
Page
2
Auction notice lists April events and new goods from oak dining sets to enamelware. Offers to buy household items and avoid middleman profits. Address given opposite Union Bank with agents for Baker and Moon Pigs and a Sydney location.
Fragmentary OCR shows names like eraldten dhmaydinn and Boe Comsiry repeated with a date Tuesday April 6 1915. Readable context is insufficient to identify event, person, or organization.
The Prime Minister declares in the House of Commons that the war aims require continued fighting until justice is secured for mankind. The struggle is framed as a global contest against German aggression, with Germany pursuing conquest and seeking peace on terms that would retain gained territory. The text emphasizes Allied perseverance, the looming depletion of enemy resources, and the resolve of Britain and France to resist until victory.
Wartime sentiment fills the page with calls to strengthen the British Army and extend conscription while Ireland debates self government. Leaders urge unity for the Empire as new recruitment measures for ages 18 to 40 are discussed, and a Melbourne conference is urged to unite support for wartime sacrifices. The piece mixes allied strategy with Irish policy questions and home front mobilization.
A London newspaper report notes rabbits in Australia as a pest and details a plan to trap and net rabbits by convalescent Australian soldiers. The piece also covers the Trench Comforts Fund Carnival at the Town Hall in Geraldton to raise funds for battalion comforts, with stalls, prizes, and auctions drawing a large crowd and support from local officials.
A large gathering at Council Chambers discussed honoring Anzac Day with aims to educate children about Australians’ heroism. Proposals included Red Cross support for prisoners of war, a sports event, and town services. Public meeting planned at noon with band from the front to lead, churches to hold evening services, and shops to close for the day.
TC Boyd reports his brother Lieut John Boyd killed in France. Boyd began in New York at war start, returned to Scotland to enlist, wounded at Hamel in 1916, earned a pilot’s commission in Gordon Highlanders, then went back to the front and was likely killed on the second day of the latest offensive. Wilson Edwick seeks hospital surgery before active service.
Local shop advertises autumn and winter millinery with hats in various shades including Black Silk Velvet and Gabardine stitched styles. It promotes New Winter Dress Materials such as reversible drum tweeds and Mary Serges, grey costume serge, white suede washing gloves from London, and bedrock price groceries with specials on Federal Tea and Conqueror Tea.
A Cortempondent reports the Hutchinson Campbell wedding near Geraldton Saturday in Krist Church and Spee pm Hall. The ceremony featured a reception with a long table, dancing, and singing before the couple departed for Narra Tarra.
A plea to the Mines Department to keep the Fingal mine at Day Dawn open, citing its long production value and arguing water control trials must be completed to determine profitability. Critics warn closure could cost Australia industrial capacity and demand immediate expert assessment.
A Welsh miners uprising over wage demands led to a strike by grave diggers at Merthyr. While a nearby coal miner was killed, funeral delays intensified widow’s grief. Volunteers stepped in as grave diggers, later reported as blacklegs by strike pickets, igniting debate within the union.
Race weights list for the Canning Park meeting in Western Australia includes horses such as Skipton Warambio Bullaparings Flagpole Por van Ruler Ettie Kirkrao Roma's Dream Btrathnawer Thender Girt Volumen Land Reay Darrawn Les Portlock Cerigo Soaphaunce and others for the Go Sellers Hurdle and Welter Handicap over about two miles. The document records weights from 0.5 to around 12 hands and includes multiple entries and horse names in a race-weight context.
Handicaps listed for the April 18 meeting at Yalgoo. Open hack race covers four and a half furlongs with weights shown for each entrant.
Sydney Saturday racing notes list recent finishes and odds for events at the Tattersalls meeting. Pontoon appears among top contenders in the Mile and Club Welter races with marked betting odds and winners noted for the day.
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