Northern Territory Appointments announced for Territory governance
The Minister for Home and Territories, Mr Glynn, says arrangements with Mr Staniforth Smith place him as Deputy Administrator of the Northern Territory. Dr Gilruth stays in office until December 1. Smith, administrator of Papua, returns after 12 years in the role and wartime service. A four year front-line major becomes special magistrate, while Major McPherson joins the Territory patrol force drawn from ex-service men.
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Home and Territories
Glynn
Staniforth Smith
Northern Territory
Gilruth
Smith
Papua
Front
Senate
Kalgoorlie
McPherson
Magistrate Trials Name First In Old Case
A magistrate, hearing an old offender named John Anderson alias Brown alias Smith, orders the name tried first and then calls in Alice Brown to inquire what she has been doing, in a scene of procedural ambiguity.
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John Anderson
Brown
Smith
Alice Brown
For Sale Farm Waggons Lorry Drays and Implements
H and H Withnell advertise a large sale of farm gear at Fitzgerald Street Northam. The list includes 3 Farm Table Top Waggons, 1 Box Waggon, 1 Farm Lorry, 1 Farm Dray, 5 Hooded Buggies, 4 Farmers Buggies, 3 Sulkies, 4 Massey Harris Spring Tooth Cultivators, 43 Furrow Ploughs, 4 Furrow Ploughs, 155 Furrow Ploughs, Hoe Drills 13 and 15, 8 Disc Drills 13 and 15, all second hand in perfect order with prices right.
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Massey Harris
O.K
Practical Piano and Organ Tuner Opens in Northam
A new workshop for piano and organ tuning and repair is established in Northam with premises on Fitzgerald Street opposite the Post Office. Orders may be left. all kinds of repair work done and country orders catered for with free estimates on pianos and organs in any condition.
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Northam
Pitzgerald St
Opp
From Pulpit to Coalpit in Welsh Minister Wages Crisis
Swansea reports Welsh Nonconformist ministers forced to seek work in collieries and steel works due to starvation wages. Rev J Ellis moves from Zion Chapel Pontardulais to Mount Pleasant Gravesend and works at Craig Merthyr Colliery after Gravesend steel work. He cites stark pay gaps versus miners and tinplaters as low as £2 weekly, with socialists among congregations noting hypocrisy in ministers’ poverty.
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Swansea
Daily Express
J Ellis
Zion Chapel
Pontardulais
Mount Pleasant Congregational
Gravesend
Craig Merthyr
Lemual Jones
Railway Hotel Meckering and Spirits Supplied
Meckering town’s Railway Hotel advertised moderate tariffs with F G Markwell supplying spirits and superior accommodation for travelers seeking affordable lodging and refreshment during the railway era.
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Meckering
F. G. Markwell
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H. Withnell
Fitzgerald ST. Northam
H.and
Geo Holtum
Nicholson's Ltd
A. Broom
Shamrock Hotel
J. W. Purslowe
Harveson
Beenies
Stirling Street
Perth
Beaufort St., Bridge
Railway Station
E. Raphael
Merredin and
Goldfields
Wellington Street
Barnett
Russell
J. M. Russell
Towt
Jack Higgs
H. H. Campbell
Parchell
Gairdner Street
Burnside Avenue
Hana General
Fitzgerald Street
Northam Telephone
Joe Devlin
Qoon
West Northam
Frank P. Cornelius
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