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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 25, 1911
Page
2
Ladies wear is featured with a special selection by head dressmaker Miss Churchill. The store introduces this season’s dress goods and trimmings for fashionable outfits.
A wartime style sale lists Ladies Winter lines with skirts hats and cloaks priced from 6/6 to 21/6, Men’s coats from 15/6, and children’s felts and waterproofs. Also offered are rugs blankets shirts and heavy boots with prices ranging from 6/11 to 22/6 per pair or item.
Sunrise times and moon phases from Government Astronomer Perth tables. Shipping: S S Paroo and S S Minderik sailings from Geraldton to Fremantle North-West Ports Java Singapore. cargo and passenger details plus upcoming departures to Fremantle and Eastern States. Books and subscriptions offered by Geraldton Guardian.
Dalgety and Co. Ltd whip ping agents report sailing dates for seven steamers. Daroo departs Geraldton for Fremantle around June 2. Charon sails Fremantle to Geraldton on May 19 and Geraldton to North West ports Java and Singapore on May 79. Mindetoo leaves Fremantle for Geraldton North West ports Java and Singapore on June 4.
Advertises recurring events each evening at the Masonic Hall with moving pictures on Sat Mon and Tue. Notes town hall programs West's Inietares and a Town Hall Tennis Club Bail on June 1 and June 24. Also lists Woods Great Peppermint Cure for coughs and colds.
An Australian notice page discusses the health claims around white versus wholemeal bread with expert views and economic notes. It covers price shifts for wheat, the July race meeting at Geraldton, hotels for let, local ads, a football association ball, rainfall, and municipal gas receipts.
In Geraldton a busy report covers survey work by Mr. W Camphell, property sales including Lucas Railway Hotel at Northampton to Mr. A. S. Orage for £4250, and the Elwes and Flieror Streets property sold for £2500. Auction updates note 123,737 acres near Yalgoo sold for £2000 with stock, plus the Gidden Grove Hotel sale for £100. A proposed donation concert, to celebrate King George's coronation, may unite local musical groups for a charity event.
At the Geraldton Municipal Chambers last evening the halfterm ratepayer gathering saw only three attendees. The Mayor and councillors were absent, the balance sheet and auditors reports were presented, and Stegall pressed for work on the town lamp and road projects while noting neglect in Pity Street.
Yesterday's Yalgoo meeting ran smoothly with top-class racing and well-ordered protests. The day saw close finishes in heats like Queen's Park and Coomer events, with Silverbird facing Coolinga before a stewards' dismissal and strong wins by Miluke and Belvier in key handicaps.
Motion picture program teased for a Saturday opening at the Geraldton Town Hall with West's Pictures promising an up to date show. A nursemaid and a doctor exchange quips about exercise while a farmer forgets what he left at home in a humorous tale and a child asks where mother has gone as a line for a children’s remedy closes.
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