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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 13, 1910
Page
2
Crum beat washing cambrics light or dark to clear at five pence per yard colored cashmere ninety four pence, to clear forty four pence. Ladies cambric costumes from four shillings sixpence each. Girls straw hats from fourpence fourpence. Men's white twill shirts one shilling sixpence each. Men's dark cotton tweed trousers to clear sixpence per pair.
Fragmentary listing shows Geraldton to Fremantle and North West ports services. Mentions Charon and Gorgon ships with captains, dates in January February and freight and passage inquiries. Applies through Dalgety & Co for Fremantle Carnarvon Port Hedland schedule.
Shipping notices report movements of steamers by Mears Dalgety and Co. Charon departs Geraldton for Fremantle on Friday January 14. Gorgon heads Fremantle to Geraldton on Tuesday January 18. Gorgon sails Geraldton to North West Ports Doris Java on Wednesday January 19. Charon sails Fremantle to Geraldton North West Ports Java and Singapore on Wednesday February.
The district faces a lamb surplus as the market price collapses with season. Advocates urge floating freezing works to preserve stock, enable fattening, and sustain farmers and squatters who otherwise lose funds. If established, freezing would revive output, create off-season employment, and keep meat within reach of regional buyers.
Prolonged delays on Midland railway trains from Perth to Geraldton expose repeated tolls on passengers. Obsolete locomotives and poor carriages cause hours of discomfort, with late arrivals and crowded, unsanitary conditions. Public calls for government action grow as travel misery continues.
The article notes Mullewa as a key police link between Yalgoo and Geraldton, citing a sparse 135 mile stretch without police. It argues for stationed police at Mullewa to improve regional protection and accessibility, mentioning existing quarters and minimal preliminary outlay. It also reports the death of 9 year old Ber bert Crockett, son of a government railway employee, with funeral planned for tomorrow.
Sir Thomas Lipton publicly unveiled a 10 Mount steel mast from his Inez America Cup challenger Shasurock TU in New York. The flagstall stands on Hadron River bridge spamming site with Stars and Stripes to be honored amid Lipton's remarks praising charity and a renewed challenge for the Rownies Cup. Dowdy Weebly remarks accompany the event.
An elderly widow, aged and frail, has been forcibly removed from her Paris apartment in the Merivourt quarter after decades of self denial. She lived on a few pence daily, supported by minor work, and kept a strict vow after her husband died in 1885. Public intervention followed as age and poverty overwhelmed her capacity to cope.
Output from five Collie district collieries in December approached 98000 tons, marking the heaviest monthly production since Collie’s operations began. The Guardian is obtainable in Geraldton from Messrs E Snell.
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