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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 27, 1917
Page
1
A brief item notes a local event titled Walkaway Line with few lay and brudag tad Merthamptos. The report records minor changes or attendance details amid unsettled conditions at the site. The piece reads as a concise update from a regional publication without additional context.
A prewar ship nicknamed the Toppler is rebuilt by an owner for anti submarine work. The battered vessel, once a freighter, gains guns and a White Ensign to hunt U boats. Despite a rough appearance the crew shows resolve as periscopes approach and submarines surface.
The Toppler defeats two U boats in a night raid. Pirates push off in small boats, then board and overwhelm the enemy craft with bone ladders. The destroyer fires and both U boats are sunk, while survivors are picked up as the Toppler’s captain reflects on the victory.
Messrs Dalgety and Co Ltd report from January 24 that Kimberley rains improved cattle and sheep prospects but overall prices remained weak. Midland Junction yarded 843 cattle and 4343 sheep 1628 lambs 224 pigs with mixed quality and firmer lambs and pigs only modestly. Prices varied with better demand for good quality stock but thin prime lamb supply and smaller yardings keeping the market unsettled toward February.
The METROPOLITas cattle sale noted fair attendance, with poor quality and signs of waste in pens. Prices ranged from 8 to 16 shillings for various weights and qualities, best medium weight beef selling around 7s per stone and heavy beef around 6s 3d. About 131 head were listed, with 100 sold.
The yarding totaled 4319 sheep 1628 ewes and lambs and 24 pigs with strong local turnout and graziers moving about 2000 ewes and wethers unsuited for butchers Prime merino wethers ranged 27 to 30s good 24s to 26s and stores 16s to 19s Merino ewes 21s to 22s 6d stores 16s to 18s Prices varied by class with prime pens bie to 26s and extra prime around 20s to 22s Feeds for pigs quoted as good quality sows 70s to AQs and mixed quality sows 6s to 7s 6d Heavy boars had limited data.
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