Buy Your HOSE at Elite Supply Coy Geraldton
RIPPER, a trove of wounds from 25 July 1916, listed for memorials. W Moz Alper and 800 Wauu F Flyper, Northampton, are named relatives. A solemn wartime tribute notes a link to families and country service, with mournful reflection on loss and memory.
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Elite Supply Coy
Marine Terrace
Geraldton
Ripper
W. Moz
Pat) Alper
Northampton
Elfith Balt
Ana
Bia
Water conservation debate drives Royal Commission recommendations
The Royal Commission report urges government aid for farmers to secure water supplies via dams or tanks. It warns that costly works and sunk wells harm rural life, urges two years of supply, and stresses dams with 2000 to 2500 year capacity. The article links water access to farm viability and rural population stability. It notes potential state involvement and ongoing debates around policy implementation.
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Royal Commission An Hariullee
Nearsat
Lamers
Local Notices and Bazaar Report from Geraldton District
Local notices describe Ladies Ambulance Class with a Sunday 4 p.m. lecture by Dr Yeaster and Saturday drill at 1:45 p.m. Uniforms and signaling flags required. Elder Shenton and Co plan sales of stock and wool and farm plant in coming weeks in Mingenew and Mt Caruamah. Geraldton School children held a bazaar with prizes, side shows, and a patriotic fund donation of £12. A kangaroo skin theft case against Frank Forrest Eroone ends with a sum of penalties and restitution orders.
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Yeaster
Elder Shenton and Co
Victoria
Ivesre Elder Shenton and Co. Ltd
Augusta
Mt Caruamah
Opebe
Messrs Green
Geraldton
Satunday
Cake Flower
Pancy
Johnny Alivoris
King Levido
Mies Clarke
Patriotic Fund
Dalgety yard sale and town hall Mikado review
Notice of sale of sheep and cattle at Dalgety and Co yards on Saturday with full particulars advertised elsewhere. The Mikado production at Town Hall last night delighted patrons with stunning scenery costumes. Geraldton Rifle Club practice starts 18th. August Competition 25th over 300 and 600 yards. Subscriptions overdue for some members. Railway service to Midland Rates line unchanged with Perth freights at 11.47 pm. Soldiers’ meet at Geraldton Post Office 5 am tomorrow.
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Tlakarra Stork
Dalgety and Co
Rysy King
Mills
Geraldton Rifle Club
Perth
Morry
West Australian Shore Meeting Acceptances Listed
Racing updates from Western Australia show acceptances for Saturday’s shore meeting. The long list includes horses such as Ballmain Mosayoon Warambie Sir Quinn Jaeger Imshi Venetian King and Duran among many others. Starting times for Boulder three day are 1 15 2 45 3 50 4 15 and 5 pm.
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Ballmain
Mosayoon
Warambie
Sxiplow
Golden City
Sir Quinn
Jaeger
Boulder
SOLDIERS LETTERS FROM FRANCE TELL OF NAMES AND NEWS
Private J Ward writes from France to his mother in Geraldton in June mentions parcels received for him and Arthur Carpenter. He notes pals Tom Hipper, Eugene Fathers, Tommie in England, Frank Duan in his battalion, learning at a school, canal swim, warm weather, and that many chaps have been taken as prisoners amid ongoing front line activity.
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J. Ward
France
Mra J. Ward
Marine — Terrace
Geraldton
Arthur Carpenter
Perth
Tom Hipper
Eugene Fathers
Tommie
England
Frank Duan
Lear
Eugene Wathes
Jirisorfers
Industrial Unrest in NSW Coal Jumpers Join Strikers
NSW mailway employees are dismissed for strike misconduct as the government mobilises volunteer workers to cover duties. Farmers and rural workers volunteer to carry out essential service, with thousands of reserves ready. The coal jumpers join the strike, threatening coal and transport for reinforcements, in a blow touching federal control.
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Sydney
Volunteers Camp Near Sydney Accepts Over a Thousand Workers
Sydney reports a volunteers camp near the Sydney Cricket Ground has already taken in more than a thousand country laborers. The effort, aimed at housing maritime workers stranded by seamen’s strikes, hopes to accommodate several thousand more in coming days as steamers are unloaded.
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Sydney
Voluntteers
Sydney Cricket Ground
Railway trouble fetilers cease work
By 15 August reports from Bydory said Fetilers have stopped work, marking a development in the railway strike. The information came to the Trades Hall as part of ongoing labor action and signals a potential shift in railway operations and labor enforcement.
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Bydory
Victorian Lumpers Strike Halting Port Melbourne Vessels
Laborers along Port Melbourne Wharf strike, leaving 26 steamers idle in Melbourne as of August 14, with ships held up by halted loading and unloading work.
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Melbourne
Port Melbourne
Seamen Join The Strikers In Melbourne Unrest
Seamen and 4000 unionists idle in Melbourne as waterside workers strike in Victoria. Two vessels in port threaten to renounce duties within 24 hours, intensifying conflict with about 3000 wharf workers among the total idle.
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Welbourne
Victoria
Melbourne
Unrest on Trans-Australian Line Halts Work
Adelaide report notes widespread unrest with workers at the Wocalla crushing quitting. About 600 men to arrive over Friday and Sunday, with 900 to be paid off as arrangements by the State Railway Department push workers south.
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Adelaide
Wocalla
Stuo Railway Department
Local Items From Bridgetown and Geraldton
Brief notes report Bridgetown calls for Mr Bo ORL Trogumba of the WA Bank, while Private John M. Dick earns the Military Medal and Private Dick enlists in Geraldton. Mentions include the Victoria Hurts, Mr OX Greer, and Mr PW Wilksveke, with expected arrivals at the end of the week as preparations proceed.
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Bo Orl Trogumba
WA Bank
Bell
Bridgetown
Durtacher Street
John M. Dick
Geraldtan
Awit
OX Greer
Victoria Hurts
PW Wilksveke
Protest Meeting in Gehald on High Cost of Living
A large Queen’s Hall gathering discussed the rising cost of living and blamed Government and merchant profiteering. Speakers, including Hous JM Drew and J Hinkey, urged remedial measures. critiques covered wartime prices, wages, coal costs, jute goods, and shipping disruptions.
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Queen’s Hall
Drew
Troy
J Hinkey
Trey
Guardia
Strpa
Evdence
Ar Troy
Pescuck
Victorio
Scaddan Somerseylind
Hughes
Imax
Australe
Australie
Price Meng
Grrldiow Municipal Marets Report Confused Market Notes
Fragmented text describes municipal markets and price pressures for grains and vegetables. Mentions farmers, produce, and a potential rise in costs. Indicates concern over market conditions and sales at central market facilities.
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Frank Forrest Eroone
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Iy Ie
Northern Gully
H. Wilson
Commissioner of Railways
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United Kingdom
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Petrotite
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Bay Ram
Amyi
Cocalea
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Pahiente
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Irth
Nsw
Mailway
Organisation OF Voluntary Labour
Oswell
Uuswell
Cost OF
Gehaldto
P.O. Bax
Iberatore
Remy Femply
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Fremantle
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