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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 02, 1924
Page
4
A chaotic record from a September gathering shows farmers arguing over the draught horse class, prize decisions, and exhibit rules. Witnesses include Walter Tucker of Losgeresong and others as the crowd debates competition outcomes and future entries.
Auction bases conduct sales across Victoria and South Australia with trust money handling and multiple insurers. Meantime a motor garage on Hamilton Street Horsham opens to the public with brick and Ford car agency and full mechanic service.
Horsham hosts a last 1924 sale listing mules cattle horses merino sheep and farming equipment. Entries invited with 16 mules from Horsham Os direct routes and numerous livestock ages and breeds. Proceeds from sheep furniture and effects to be auctioned at Booth Wort Alb.
Auction notice for Horsham Sale Yards on Wednesday December 10 listing numerous Merino sheep lots including 4 and 2 tooth wethers and ewes, station bred stock, aged ewes, lambs, and pure Merino lines. Luncheon provided. Entries urged to ensure advertising. Auctioneers Laidlaw and Co and AG Bros Horsham branches.
Four thousand sheep to be offered including young wethers and ewes with well grown Merino stock. Sale features rams and showy entries with various classes and prices. further entries invited by sale organizers.
A long list of unreserved stock and farming plant sales is slated around Horsham in December and into 1925. Major events include 10000 sheep at Hamilton and 7000 breeding sheep at South Woonwondah, plus cattle horses and complete farming outfits at Goroke Ararat and nearby towns. Prospective buyers are invited to attend the series of sales with specific dates from December 1 through February and March, including estates of Thos Laldlaw and others.
Auction list notes December 4 sale with 520 merino wethers 280 merino ewes 1080 inch wether lambs and several bred and hand shorn entries. Adds further entries invited for the event.
A regional notice names David Anderson and 0 Land stock and finance agents with offices at Wilson Street Horsham and branches at Jung Jung Pimpinio Seredniks and Gorake. It lists sworn valuator David Andi and weekly stock talks at Horsham yards along with agents for Ballarat land mortgage and agency Pinanese. Also mentions several insurers and land and stock agencies across Mallee Western District Geelong New South Wales Melbourne Ballarat Hamilton and Geelong. Assets and money held in trust with a National Bank Horsham.
Land stock and general commission agent on Wilson Street Horsham lists Mercantile Mutual Insurance Co Melbourne services fire and accident crops stock personal accident workers compensation employers liability and live stock insurance. Also brokers for produce and perpetual trustees. district agents for Austin motor car. Loans negotiated and land sales specialty. Private phone numbers and a PO Box.
Last season the WPC set an Australian record for quantity and price by securing 1 per lb for one lot of 90 bales from John Russell of Melrose. Other growers consign to commodious stores at Macaulay Railway Station.
Partial OCR reads J Strowm Street in Horsham and a note about a street or avenue project. Details are unclear due to text garbling but indicate civil works or planning in progress. further confirmation needed from original page.
Wiver invites tenders for a large crown property in Hor sham parish near Horsham. The allotments 85 86 87 88 in a described block lie about four miles east of Horsham and seven miles from Riverside, with TM wires or thereabouts.
Auction set for Friday December 19 1024 at Mell mith Bond rooms Nhill. Estate of F W Schultz and L K Schultz offers 868 acres plus 468 acres in parcels Nos 46A to 468 in Kiwa parish Lowan. Features include a brick eight room homestead with verandah, stables, outbuildings, sheep-proof fencing, 15 paddocks, bore water and two windmills. Travel till 1 March 1925. sale in whole or part. Inspect via Metta ith Bond Nhill or Fone Taosicker Hill.
George Hague Wool and Station Procure Brokers Geelong allied with South British Insurance Co Ltd report fire and accident coverage. Live stock crop Stark etc Ballarat and District Co operative Freezing Co. Ltd. Canadian-Australasian Royal Mail Line All Red Route to England offers illustrated pamphlets.
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