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19 Jan 1915
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Newspaper
Goomalling Dowerin Mail
Location
Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 19, 1915
Page
1
Fragmented text from an old newspaper page includes stray phrases and unreadable names. No coherent incident or event can be determined for a reliable headline or summary.
Notice: all Municipal and Board of Health Licences for 1415 are due and payable at the Town Clerk office. Individuals neglecting registration within one month may face prosecution. Licences required for motor cars and hire, carts, cabs, cowkeepers, dairies, dogs, eating houses, goats, hawkers, laundries, drivers, carriers, chimney sweeps, milk venders, piggery, private hospitals, slaughter houses, stallholders. January 1, 1915.
The Committee in connection With the Atkin Benefit Fund thanks the public of Northam and Grass Valley, and Tollway employees for generous contributions. Grass Valley 2 6s 6d, Tollway employees 4s, Northam total 1r 8d. W. H. Black, Secretary Northint Brancly W A. A
A Northam tailor with over 20 years in business undercuts travellers by making suits at £1 175 6d while others offer at £2 175 6. The note warns there is no need to pay the higher prices.
J P Camm, Northam district surveyor, is appointed a member of the Farmers' Assistance Board. He will relocate to Portam next Thursday to devote his full time to board duties, bringing long experience to assist Paterson and Sutton. The government aims to strengthen the board's agricultural support. His family will move to Claremont. It is also expected J H M Lelroy will succeed Cams as Northam District Surveyor.
Notice from the Northam Road Board states sites should be taken out and obtained from the Secretary at Fitzgerald street offices Nor tham. Access available on Tuesdays weekly from 9 am. and until the 6th day of January 1918. Secretary WO Smy Tbe signed the notice for the Surtan Bowl Board.
Has started practices at the comer of Wellington as Barrack Streeta Perth lover Trouchet's chemist. Hours i Gil 4ead by appointment.
Good home offered with four rooms and additional kitchen in a well situated ground. The agents offer full particulars with terms at £325, urging the property as a first class investment with value growth potential. The Arcade Northam agents Watkins and Mitchell announce the let.
A fragment notes an event labeled Goomalling Doweria ail dated Tuesday January 19 1915. The readable text offers little context, no clear actions, but places the notice in the Goomalling Doweria area on that Tuesday. No organizations or people are clearly identified in the legible portion.
The Northam Choral Society plans a Thursday gathering at Tows Hall with a weekly rehearsal set for Wednesday night and the orchestra practicing tonight at 7:48. The Northam Agricultural Society meeting occurs Saturday afternoon at three, with the annual report and balance sheet to be presented and committee elections to follow. There will be emphasis on member eligibility, unpaid dues, and the election process, plus weather notes and local shop notices from Northam News Agencies offering stationery, music, and books at the center of town near the West Northam station.
Parliament considers a bill to relieve farmers unable to deliver wheat under contract due to surplus. The measure allows rescheduled obligations or partial relief after magistrate hearing, shielding from damages for contracts formed before March 1 1915. It requires crop surplus after essential needs and seeds.
Mr Daniel Thomas aged 57, a clerk at William Thomas and Co.’s flour mill for over two years, died after heart weakness. Active Baptist Church member and choir conductor, funeral held Sunday afternoon with large attendance. Chief mourners included Mrs Thomas and family. pallbearers named from local firms and friends.
St Johns and Cosmopolitans played a strong match at East Nos tham ground with slow scoring but clear improvement. St Johns totaled 88 in first innings with Maddock bowling for 43 and Buckley 17. Cosmopolitans were 2 for not out with Maddock and Sateliffe both unbeaten as play resumes next Saturday.
In Dowerin on Wednesday the residence of Mr W Place hosted a school children concert for the Belgian Fund. Mr BR M Scower presided, praising the children for their charity. Mrs Place supplied supper. Miss Scouler provided accompaniments as the youngsters performed a varied programme with recitations songs and plays led by Jean Place Norman Place Steve Tully and others.
Bundles of fresh maize fodder stood outside Mr A Z Watts on Northam main street on a Saturday. The sample stalks stood between seven and eight feet high with one inch stems, weighing about one third of a hundredweight each. They sold at one shilling per bundle or £3 per ton. Watts had planted an acre ten weeks earlier and estimates a harvest of 15 to 20 tons, with sale proceeds around £4 per ton.
A letter from London to the New South Wales Premier discusses maize sugar as an alternative to cane sugar. It notes recent Australian investment of £70000 in maize sugar plants, with a current output near 3900 tons per year and potential expansion to increase exports to relieve Britain's sugar shortage.
A truncated weather item records January temperatures with scattered numbers. It mentions readings around 17 and 18 degrees, reflecting a brief temperature snapshot without clear location or period context.
The Friday evening Northam Bowling Green hosted Electric Light Fours semis with Millington beating Beveridge 22-20 after leading early then trading points. Foreman and Jordan’s pair won easily while Foley Pairs saw Williams and Mure Fell defeat Withnell and Millington. Bunbury Carnival prep underway as Northam plans a four-man team to travel.
Official forecasts show area sown and yields across New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia. Drought reduces harvest expectations with NSW only about 2.4 million acres reaped and WA SA expected yields around 4.62 and 3.57 bushels per acre respectively. Carryover projections and total Australian supply for 1915 are near 29.5 million bushels with food and seed needs estimated at 37.305 million bushels.
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