29 Oct 1920
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Newspaper
Goomalling Dowerin Mail
Location
Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 29, 1920
Page
1
The Meckering Cycle Club held its annual sports meeting on Monday with fair attendance. Handicapping was poor for local cyclists though events proceeded well, including half mile and cycle club races.
The program lists 130 yard dash results with G V Delane and AJ Bonser and others, second heat won by Delane. 100 yards race features Bert Wilson, with multiple heats and times around 13 seconds. Two mile cycle race shows J Smith and Mackay leading with times near 4 minutes 54 seconds. other riders include H Cockman, E Smith, B Walkes and more. Several events note inch start and dead heat mentions, with competitors such as Henning, Sheehan, and Millington.
M Posa of Dowerin and Meckering and Bruce Rock takes over the business formerly run by Mark Swindell. The store dealt in wholesale and retail fruit, vegetables, fancy goods, stationery, cigars and cigarettes with prompt counter service.
Fragmentary OCR shows port prices with Hardy’s Muscat and Hardy's port bottles listed. Entries mention quantities per bottle and shillings and pence pricing, though many words are garbled.
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