News and Notes from Northam Council and Local Events
Notices cover council decisions on Bark ledgers and sinking fund earnings, continuation classes for youths with courses in dressmaking and cookery, and a push to enrol. A parliamentary debate setup, Wheat shipment schedules, a 49 year old horse in New Zealand, and funeral of R. A. Sholl are noted along with a London tram joke and ECFA fixtures in the region.
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Stave
New Zealand
Old Country
Waverley
Repatriation sustenance study and wartime demobilisation notes
The analysis covers payments for 114 600 men repatriated to the Commonwealth with 5 000 on sustenance and 36 percent of all returnees in some sustenance. It cites influenza, unemployment, and alcohol factors, noting only about 9 50 percent on sustenance and a strong push toward faster employment. British wartime demobilisation payments are compared with £14.3 million paid between Armistice and April 4 1919 for unemployment donations.
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Simanenent
Millen
de T
House of Comms
O. J. Wardle
Labour
Wardle
Chaos in Navy Ministry Sparks Demands for Action
Sydney Sunday Times quotes the Royal Commission on Navy and Defence Administration criticizing a dysfunctional public service. It highlights interdepartmental feuds, sycophancy, and loss of discipline, calling for reform and noting Minister for the Navy Sir Joseph Cook has been away for nine months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Commission On Navy and Defence Administration
Manly
Joseph Cook
Navy
Sydney
Woods' Great Peppermint Car For and Colds
A fragmented note mentions a product named Woods' Great Peppermint Car For and Colds with unclear spellings and markings. No clear dates or entities emerge.
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Woods
Iene Failu
Public Works Petty Contract Sealed Bid Opportunity
Notice invites sealed tenders for a petty contract related to a public works project judged by Architect Perth. Bid submissions close at noon on a specified date. Merredin School is referenced along with site and contractor details in the incomplete public notice.
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Betty
Weadermestionpf
Perth
Ortham Sehosk
Cme
Merredin School Et Oui Sag
Merredin
Victoria Plains Road Board Bridge Tender Announcement
Public works contract notice for tenders on a bridge over a creek at Calingiri won by Won Wora oes May Courthouse. The tender seeks bids from contractors for the Victoria Plains Road Board project with deadline and submission details.
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Victoria Plains Road Board
Bridge Over Creek
Calingiri
Wora Oes
Public Works Petty Contracts Details
Enders for Meckering School contracts announced with noon map particulars for courthouses in Northam and Meckering.
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Saat
Northam
Goomalling Road Board Licenses Notice
Licenses for all vehicle types including carts carriages and dogs must be obtained by 21st 1918. Unlicensed vehicles or persons will be punished without further notice. By order of the Board G Whitlock Secretary office opens Thursdays James Street Goomalling.
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Piperson
James Street
Goomalling
Road Board Tenders Invited for Works Near Northam and Toodyay
Tenders are invited and will be received until 6 pm on June 6 for road works including clearing 80 chains on Northam Road, graveling 12 miles east of Toodyay Road, graveling and forming on several roads, with specifications available at the Geomalling Board office.
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EC Football Association
Federals
Unions
East Northam
Toodyay
York
Morea
Twid Ae Northam
Eest
Goomalling
Notice to Creditors in Estate of Henry Rose Warne Lakeman
On March 28 1919 an order was made to collect and administer the estate of Henry Rose Warne Lakeman late of Dowerin Western Australia who died around February 1919. The Curator of Intestate Estates gives creditors until June 2 1919 to prove claims after which the will opens for distribution among creditors and rightful claimants. Notice dated Port May 1919.
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Henry Rosewarne Lakeman
Dowerin
Western Australia
Porth
Premier Waggon Builders Advertise Farm Implements
H and H Withnell of Fitzgerald Street Northam advertise 3 Farm Table Top Wagons 4 Table Top Wagons second hand perfect order 5 Hooded Buggies sulkies farm lorry dray and farm implements mostly second hand all in perfect order with prices right.
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Massey Harris
O.K
H. Withnell
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News and Notes
Alex. Tomlinson
Northam Municipal Council
Lroop
Commons
Lowther
R Lowther
Speikker
Ite
Becm
Para Australia
Mosars A
Hunter
Geo. Christmases
Messrs
R. F. Marshall Lend
J.T. Grey
Australia
Great Britain
R. A. Sholl
Aberdeen Street
St. George‘s Cathedral
Banbury
London
Tooting
CHAOS
Public Works Contract
Goomalling Road
G. Whitlock
Geomailing Road Board
Supreme Court OF Western Australia
Enry J Rosewarne Eman
Sient Gasset
Malloch
Bros
William S Perth
Tower St
Leederville
Fremantle
Chartes Mills
CASH
Clark & Phillips
Stanbury
West Northam
A. D. Mitchell
Swern
Fitzgerald Street
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