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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 12, 1922
Page
2
An extensive catalog of fabrics and textiles is presented by Elite Supply Co. Items include silk, muslin, cottons, undergarments, towels, sheets, blankets, and hosiery with prices such as 4/00 2/1 and 3/6. The ad markets reduced costs for fashion materials and home textiles to attract buyers.
Fragmentary OCR lists multiple names and terms including John Caxton and chairmen, and references to stock and a state expectation. The text resembles a disjointed stock or committee ledger with scattered personal names and potential organizations, lacking full context or coherent narrative.
The report covers awards and donations at the Victoria District Show with second prize credits to Mr. C. P. Murray and Mrs. McKenzie Groat. It notes club meetings, membership drives, swimmimg club plans, and upcoming social events while detailing local council actions on jetty gates, road works, and public safety measures.
The Municipal Council, led by Mayor G. E. Sewell, discussed the current accounting practices amid a letter from the Public Works Department urging a uniform system. They decided no change was needed and would table the letter. Members debated pensioner relief under a proposed Bill, supporting thrifty pensioners while opposing blanket aid.
On Motuning evening the Spinxters and Matrone hosted a dance with MC Mr P Mhee. Wilton Broa supplied the refreshments as ladies and bachelors enjoyed the entertainment.
Dalgety and Co reports from October 10 noting dull trading at Copley and the previous day market. Cattle numbers were small with limited prime quality entries. Bacon and pork prices eased slightly, with a weak demand for feeders and stores and a generally lower market for war products.
Hilor, Houitham Co. Limited reports dated October 10 noting cattle offerings improving in quality, selling at 47/6 per 10 pounds. Midland actions for sheep steady to firmer, Tombs freezer market eased slightly. A sale of 400 imported horses underway with optimistic demand. dairy cow market unchanged.
Fat cattle range in weight and quality with prices from sixteen pounds for heavy bulls to fourteen to eighteen pounds for lighter cattle. High quality weighty cows bring up to about eighteen shillings and six pence per hundredweight while mid quality stock fetches around fifteen to sixteen shillings.
Market notes show varied prices for crombred wethers medium ruwgbred ewes and guard-probably ewes with quotes from 24 shillings to 20 shillings. Woolly toeering wethers, plain and Medina types priced 19s to 12s with several entries 17s 5d and 22s to 24s.
Market quotations list beef and pork items with terms like Becg Best shipped beef and mutton Best wether button with skins. Prices shown include 83 for mutton and 24d for choppers, reflecting local trading jargon of the period.
Dalgety Co Limited will hold their monthly matter at Utakarea Base Yards offering to public auction. Graziers Cooperative Ltd, secount owners, are involved in the sale event.
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