Fire Brigade Demonstration Sub Committee Meeting Minutes
The Town Hall supper room hosted a Fire Brigade Demonstration sub committee meeting with officials including Dunkley Withnell Serjeant Bourne and others. discussions covered a possible race meeting with the Northam Race Club, a permanent 4 inch water main proposal for 272 pounds, and a temporary option to be lifted in 16 days. A plan to print Programme for Fire Brigade events and a request to Trotting Club about carnival profits benefiting Hospital Memorial Wing were approved. A separate meeting of the Hilletring sub committee elected Dunkley as chairman and noted 339 men seeking accommodation with hotels able to house about 113. a loan for 300 beds and 600 blankets was requested from the Health Department with support from the town’s Member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fire Brigade
Town Hall
Preser T
Dunkley
Withnell
Serjeant
Bourne
Golding
Gilligan
Mickle
Chidiow
Meeres
Caddy
Oldham
Gillett
Carter
Rady
Watson
Coxon
Ferguson
Corlewis
Pankley
Messrs
Taylor
Ruediger
Pattinson
Race Club
Messrs Carter and
Northam Race Club
Ork
York
Gilletting
Northam Trotting Club
Hospital Memorial Wing Committee
Messrs Rady
Hilletring
Messe
Curlewis
Bereny Nevelles
Triscotts
Health Department
Urgent appeal from Parkerville Children’s Home in 1920
Sister Madeleine, honorary secretary, appeals for aid for the Parkerville Children’s Home in Western Australia. She notes long service, the illness outbreak, and strained finances after a previous fundraiser, urging friends to donate to support babies and children under care. The note is dated December 6, 1920.
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Edward Stone
Wester
Australia
Parkerville
Madeleine
Midland Junction Weekly Stock Sale Report
Dalgety and Co report 435 cattle offered at Midland Junction with prices firming from last week. Best beef quoted 64d to 6d per pound, good weighty bullocks 16 to 17 10s, cows up to 16 17s 6d, smaller stock lower. Sheep and lamb values also rose with 1856 sheep and 2707 lambs penned, store stock firmer and overall market steady to higher. Pigs 491 offered, prices generally steady except stores firmer.
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Dalgety
Expensive Train Ride Leads to Court Fine
Clarence Henry Glossop faced Northam Police Court with charges of riding a moving goods train without a ticket and assaulting a railway official, plus resisting arrest. He admitted guilt, was fined L88s with costs or three weeks’ imprisonment, after intoxicated conduct on the Perenjori to Gentine journey.
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Northam
R.M
Clarence Henry Glossop
Bignell
Perenjori
Buntine
Railway Department
Tohill
Glossop
Gentine
Dowerin Notes and Local Happenings
The district reports eight to nine bag wheat yields and busy railway yards with incoming wheat. Dowerin Lakes cricket likely to form two teams and an association of four clubs. A Christmas Concert and Dance for charity is planned. Town faces housing shortages with blocks recently surveyed, inviting builders to erect cottages.
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Dowerin Lakes
Asa
Parity for Wheat Sees Prices Fall and Failures Rise
Wheat prices declined over the past three months with trading in New York Times market notes showing a drop from 252.5 cents to 29 cents per basket, while other grains moved lower. Foreign buyers seized the opportunity to acquire large quantities as several Kansas and Nebraska grain elevators and warehouses failed amid the slump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicage
New York Times
Sevral Kansas
Nebraska
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Children’s Home
Children's Home
Dowerin Notes
The
Western Australian Turf Club
W. H. Willcocks
W. H. Willcocks Fitzgerald Strreet
Leeuwin
Leederville
Rechiubuieans
Malloch Bros
William Street
Aes Perth
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