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Newspaper
Goomalling Dowerin Mail
Location
Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 22, 1921
Page
2
Municipality of Northam invites tenders for UBAFE supply for six months from May 1 1921. Tenders must be received by 4 pm Thursday April 21. Delivery to be made as required. Town Clerk Geo Christmas signs.
Notice states the Northam Municipality proposes borrowing 4000 pounds to fund purchase and erection of works. Plans and pre expenditure details are open for inspection for one month at the Town Clerk's office, with debentures bearing interest of six pounds ten shillings per cent per annum and repayable ten years after issue.
Entries close with nominations due on the 23rd. The rules outline handicaps and conditions for hacks and chase entries. Officials including the secretary and club are listed for acceptance at scale and weigh-ins to be declared accordingly.
The piece argues that Saturday entertainment and idle spending drain resources and harm the nation. It cites massive losses from cinema, theatre, fashion, tobacco, meat, and decorative items, urging economic restraint and a local option vote on April 30 to support prohibition.
Four brick semidetached cottages on three acres rent 131 pounds yearly with price 1300 pounds and 450 pounds deposit. Two semidetached brick lunnes in high position rent 78 pounds yearly at 680 pounds or mortgage 300 pounds at 6 percent. Several five and four room brick houses for cash or terms including 509 pounds, 650 pounds, and 400 pounds with deposits and mortgage options. Agent E J Cook No 3 Arcade Buildings phone numbers provided.
Tenders for school renovations and quarters at Northam and South Cinderina are invited with required schedules and deposits. Rail excursion details show Anzac Day services April 25 1921 with special trains April 23–25 and goods warehouses closing on April 25 except evening hours. Applications by May 6 1921 for road work crew including a dray man and pit man with daily rates. Tenders to be returned to the Good Dralling Road Board.
A critic in Northam laments posters on roads urging no license and questions if beer funds bridges. The piece then shifts to Western Australia politics, wheat disputes, Baxter’s fall from ministry, and calls for regional minister appointments amid a broad editorial mix.
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