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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 11, 1914
Page
4
Edgar Pickering introduces a new serial tale titled Dick Beresford's Wife A Wounds Mistake set in a fashionable hotel drawing room. The domestic novel promises intense power, bright dialogue, and vivid scenes of modern fashionable life with a strong love interest.
Ordinary Greenough board meeting on 7 July with A C Clinch as chair, J W Waldeck, P G Anderwon, L Dunes and Jas Reynolds present. Payments of £37 approved. annual accounts for year to 30 June 1914 adopted and forwarded to Public Works Department. roads expenditure £900 0s 0d vs prior £996 0s 0d. administration £179 1s 0d vs £205 19s 4d. Revenue totals £1,086 10s 0d with administration £190 and balance for works. Rates set 14d in the pound with 3 minimum. special levy 2s in the pound on railway area. Correspondence read from Lands and Surveys, PWD, Postmaster General, and others. financials prepared for audit. works topics discussed including Mivminooka Road and access plans. Secretary granted leave. next meeting to consider Walkaway views.
The Mellows Roads Board held its monthly meeting in Madswa Town Hall on Saturday. Members present included Doney the chairman and Puckle, Stokes and Warren with Mr P. Ryan welcomed as a new member. Debates urged curtailing talk due to rising business volume. The Minister for Works visited and offered sympathetic replies to requests. Road objections were raised to Bindu Road and a proposed clearing plan for Bowes Road was adjusted, with 30 chains cleared from Valentine’s fence and 0 through Bowes’ location. A property list plan was discussed with Mr Burlinson to include transfer details for a fee. Initial stock route costs were set at £100 for wells, and the State Forest Well offer was negotiated to share costs £50 with future fencing duties. Road level and location surveys were updated for Mingenew Road, Location 1922, and Wollya Lot 1, with finances showing year-end receipts £2,100 and expenditures £1,482, leaving £305 credit. Troy’s Road would retain 1.5 miles per Mr Green’s request due to sand plain dam anage. A plan to abolish day labour in favor of contract work was discussed, with most opposing general change but noting potential £200 savings from day labour.
The meeting recorded a near unanimous vote against a motion except for the mover. Estimates showed receipts and expenditure for the year with rates set: General two pence in the pound on unimproved capital land, townsite Mullewa one shilling in the pound on not annual value, health rate one penny on not annual value with a sixpence minimum. Works approved include Mingseew Road formation and box drains, Keeffe’s and Fry’s road repairs, Main Street drainage and graveling, and measures on Padbery Street and Mullens-Pineer Road, with a request for cost estimates to cap the creek.
Gressergh News reports three sharp frosts this week bring clear skies and bitter easterly winds. Elders recall unprecedented cold in the area. Newly ploughed land is white with rust, threatening a bad season for farmers unless a change arrives soon.
Walkaway proves he can hit the looking glass though not the bulls eye. Rumor says the Indien may form a golf club to replace tennis in winter, challenging the Geraldton Club, with Greenough possibly stepping in as a rival.
A tested approval notes the Memorial measures to be in court under the act described. The document cross references continental and foreign contexts, signaling official endorsement for agricultural proceedings.
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