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Newspaper
Goomalling Dowerin Mail
Location
Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 12, 1914
Page
2
The Northam Road Board invites tenders addressed to the Chairman for road forming and gravelling works in the Northam district. Tenders close at 11 am on Saturday May 16 1914. Various wards list specific lengths and segments to be formed or gravelled, with details supplied by the Board's Supervisor.
Mr AB Kidson will speak to electors in Doodlarine Meruhdin Ball Narrowin Jennacubbine on specified dates. The notices are authorised by Harold Dundee Forbes of Fitzgerald Street Northam.
Ward boundaries split the district prompting an extraordinary election to fill Road Board vacancies. Details appear on the Tele message and advertising columns. Labor movement meeting urged women to attend and hear prominent Laborites. Lease advertised for eleven acres of Baker's Hill warden soil. Selector's Guide from Lands Department received. Central District Football Association seeks two central umpires. Goomull ing aut Dowerin notes held over.
A Perth Labor Daily meeting at Temperance Hall May 2 invites shareholders after paying fees. The text also reports Morrells speech in Northam and a call for loyalty to the Labor cause with appeals to tradesmen and voters ahead of the provincial election.
Debates pit Mitchell Colbateh Morrell and Bir Rideon against Moore and Scaddan over railway policy water supplies and the Agricultural Bank. Discussion covers immigration commission, spur lines, decentralisation, tariffs and protection, with warnings on centralisation harming Perth Fremantle and regional towns.
A railway notice outlines timetable changes on the Eastern Railway with several routes accelerated or daily services. It notes specific departures and arrivals between Northam Perth Albany and Katanning along the Great Southern line, and mentions cancellations on Mondays. Posters at stations provide full details.
A notice from People's Printing and Publishing Co. announces a shareholders meeting at Temperance Hall Perth on Monday May 25 for applicants who paid the application fee. It also invites competent persons to apply for the position of Central Umpire two seats at one shilling per match, with applications due by 12 noon Saturday May 1 to W. P. Rumble Acting Sec.
Dowerin Road Board invites nominations to fill multiple ward vacancies including North Ward one seat North-West two seats North-East two seats South-West two seats Sand-Bust ward two seats and one Ratepayers Auditor. Nominations close May 16 at 4 pm in Nawerin Heari Office. if nominations exceed vacancies an election is set for May 23.
The University of Western Australia announces a special month course for farmers to begin at the University Build KS Werth on June. A prospectus with full particulars can be obtained by application to the Registry at the University Offices Cathedral Chambers Perth. Students enrolled may travel to Perth at one half excursion rates. Tow ns hend Registrar University of Western Australia Perth 1/5/14.
A meeting will be held in the Railway Institute on Tuesday at 7 for the purpose of furthering the interests of the Labor Movement in Northam and District. Prominent labor figures will address the meeting. All women are invited to attend. Also a notice about a facial massage course at Tim Harnett's hairdressing saloon.
Community debate over supporting a Norihwn bush project fades while calls grow for local music. A deputation to the Iowa Council was planned to seek aid, with hopes for a town band or an orchestra using small instruments. News also notes Annie Jones sketched for Ward Lock and Co and local social notices from Buswellton.
Personal notice states Mr T Maloney and Mr P B Me Gargie sons of De Maloney and Senator Hugh De Largie have left Melbourne for land settlement at Kosdinin. Both are graduates of Dookie Agricultural College Vic.
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