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Newspaper
Meekatharra Miner
Location
Meekatharra, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 15, 1917
Page
2
ERN. HANSEN Be announces a constantly engaged lorry for carrying and quick delivery of all orders. All teams met, furniture removed, wood and water supplied on short notice. Orders left at the Co-Operative Store receive prompt attention.
Polling day set for Thursday December 20 to approve the War Warn Heroes measure. Authorized by the Reinforcements Referendum Council. William Leslie serves as chairman with WM. D. Campbell as honorary secretary.
Last week saw various notices from Meekatharra including polling hours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for Referenda, a fatal fall from a brewery wagon in Geraldton, and Christmas Tree and Fete plans on the Road Board lawn with 64 admit and gifts for children to aid Red Cross work.
Publisher warns readers no issue on Saturday December 29 due to Christmas holidays. Last issue of the year appeared December 22. Publication will resume January 5.
The Daily Publication of an extraordinary containing War News will be discontinued after Thursday next 20th inst until further notice. The office will be closed from December au d to January 2nd. D J Colgan Proprietor. Sunday December 1 Church notices follow with service times for Catholic, Church of England, and Methodist congregations led by Reverends.
A war letter from France by Lieutenant Allan laments reinforcements being delayed and soldiers returning wounded, urging women to vote Yes for conscription to support Australia. The piece links a railway strike rumor to wartime shortages and the need to crush the enemy. Also mentions a Yalgoo race meeting proceeds benefiting Fremantle Base Hospital with a profit of £80.
A wartime plea denounces the lie that the war is already lost and urges continued, intensified effort. It argues that traitors spread defeatist rhetoric while British leaders claim victory is possible only with supreme sacrifice and persistence.
R Ainge Johnson of Reinforcement Elena Council denounces a widely circulated claim that passing the Refer endum would force married men to war and that conscripts would be paid less than volunteers. He cites repeated refutations and accuses the antis of a house-to-house campaign aimed at poor women.
A Geraldton Guardian note corrects two inaccuracies in the Sunday Times piece on Lady Munro Ferguson’s visit. It says no song was sung and Lady Helen Munro Ferguson did not accompany the vice-royalty in Geraldton, despite the Sunday Times depiction of a moving performance during a local ceremony.
Correspondence from Senator Buza cott and Private Pady arriving from Perth to Meekatharra to address conscription in a heated gathering shows Anti-extremist factions determined to drown out speakers. After 46 minutes a chairman urged Anti members to allow Private Pad to speak amid fears of further unrest and Junta pressure.
Meekatharra Road Board met on Tuesday evening with T Allanson chairing in Mr A L Roberts absence. Members J Smith C F Connelly J Brosnan and J Searle attended. The group discussed the Water Supply Department rate increase and protested. They planned to relocate windmill and tanks near Haggett's home, and to speed up Kumartina copper field road work. Board finances and electric light scheme details were reviewed, with staff reductions debated and a deputation planned to seek bank loan concessions. Continuous road inspections, repairs, and board business wrapped the session.
The Dominican Convent at Meekatharra marked seven weeks into Christmas holidays with a large turnout for a schoolroom opening event. Rev Father Lewin praised the Sisters for secular education, while the School Inspector commended the school and pupils who passed musical exams with credit.
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