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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 18, 1917
Page
1
A garbled note reports a Ayrshire style event at Mau in Spey, with references to Corte and Aries grade. The readable fragments suggest a maritime or adventure context and a public notice tone. Further details are unclear from the fragment.
Louise Daniels a Belgian woman faced Police Court on Thursday accused of discharging a revolver in the Geraldton Hotel on Monday August 13. Witnesses described her sober mood earlier, a heated kitchen dispute, and returning with a weapon as shots were fired. bail was not granted.
Dalgety and Co Ltd notes fine weather boosts railway operations and lifting capacity for next week's sheep market. Copley’s Siding yard reports 538 cattle from Kimberley with improved prices, Midland Junction sees heavy lamb yarding yet fair quality, delays due to washaways linger, lambs down about 4s per head, pigs largely firm but likely to soften as more pigs reach market.
The market reports fat cattle with price ranges for quality classes from good weighty bullocks at 16 to 18 pounds per hundredweight to light weights at 8 1/6 to 6 pence per pound. Cows and odd beasts show lower quotes, while heavy notes include specific prices for teat weight measures and reference to 42s 6d per 100 pounds.
Prices listed for sheep merino skins and crossbreds with bids from 338 to 823, prime lambs at 243 to 29, smaller 13s, hogs choppers heavy to light ranges 82s down to 45s, baconers 473 to 60s, cutters 385 to 42s, store stock 20s to 25s, slips 11s 6d to 1s.
A Roads Board meeting held August 7 with Chair M J Logue and members J M Bone F G Anderson C I Duncan J Reynolds D E Broad J F Cuneo secretary. Accounts £43 passed. Correspondence covered floods delays Sit EH Wittenoom boundary issues Town Planning Association dairy and grazing matters. A crossing request from J F Wilton was considered impractical. Quotations sought for an illuminated address.
Private Keating writes from Quarra Abbey near Ryde Isle of Wight to his mother. He reports healing wounds in convalescent ward, mentions Jim Ward wounded and back with his battalion, notes parcels seldom reach him, suggests registering money, attends Feast Day church with monks in rich robes, and expresses a wish to leave hospital soon.
A nurse writing from the Third British General Hospital at Tetraporeport in France to her mother describes long duty days, tight quarters, and pride in serving wounded soldiers. She details excursions to Dieppe and nearby chateaus, the local scenery, food costs, and her wish for an eventual return home to Australia.
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