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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 29, 1917
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR of the Wise Western Australian Post Office Directory 1917. Reads like a list with headings and partial entries. Content is unclear due to damage but indicates postal directory data and names in Western Australia from 1917.
Dalgety and Co Ltd reports on September 26 with cattle from Mullewa Mokup and Moira shipment. Yardings at Copley’s Siding mainly cows, fair quality, buyers dominated by metropolitan. Goldfields and country buyers scarce. Opened with a two shillings drop from last week. beef cheaper. Next week expected good cattle supply, prices unlikely to rise. many local sellers to hold cattle. Kimberley season delayed by strikes and boat delays. Midland Junction saw heavy yarding of sheep and lambs, about 4400 sheep and 3850 lambs, including 1000 store ewes from Kimberley. Lambs abundant, prices down 3s-4d. demand lower than supply. Lambs likely to ease with fresh influx. Pigs yarding lighter. good quality scarce, top prices similar to last week, plain stock weaker.
In Murchison and Geraldton districts buyers note higher fat stock prices with cattle selling into store condition at 6 17s 6d and young calves around 3 at Midland Junction. Advertises accepting fat calves from country clients for immediate sale amid strong metropolitan demand.
A brief, imperfect OCR fragment hints at a local spat or dispute involving a Whit and a cab or carriage. The readable words suggest an intention to engage or bargain, but specifics, actors, and outcomes are unclear from the fragment.
Report shows price ranges for bul locks and bullocks from 14 to 18 pounds for medium to good quality, weighty cows from 11 10s to 12 10s, odd beasts up to 14 2s 6d, and beef prices from 40s to 42s 6d per 100 pounds for best quality. Second quality beef quoted 35s to 37s 6d per 100 pounds.
Fat stock market prices listed for sheep lambs and pigs. Prime merino wethers and horned varieties shown with price ranges. Lambs commands primes from 16s to 18s 6d, medium and good grades priced accordingly. Pigs feature heavy sows, baconers, porkers, stores and weaners with diverse shillings figures.
A cattle sale at the centre offered 358 mixed cattle from the Murchison region. The majority were sold to Ronse, Mo E. W. Hall, Florrie, with balance from various owners to Onclow Gis.
C M Filling Lat writes dated September 27 noting fewer entrants in horse and cattle show classes as breeders retreat from showing. Royal Show classes performed poorly with sheep prices easing, many sheep shaved across farming areas, shorn fats arriving in Midland with dull demand. Oversupply drives pigs to be slaughtered and shipped east.
An old advertisement extols Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney trouble, backache, and related symptoms. Testimonies claim dramatic relief after a course, with one husband reportedly cured and a wife confirming five years later the lasting effect.
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