Absolute sale of Rockbank property and estate stock
L A Fairbairn & Co with Mr EB W Fowler announce an absolute sale on the property Rockbank and related lands at 3 pm on the dates May 9 and May 10. Includes four acres plus multiple lots, a substantial villa residence with modern conveniences, dairy capable land, and extensive farming implements, vehicles, and stock. Luncheon provided. Buyers may pay one fifth cash with balance over four years at 4 percent interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tevuin
Grazing Land Auction Near Parwan Bacchus Marsh
L A Fairbairn Co offers sale by auction of parcels from the well known Brooklyn estate near Parwan. Includes grazing paddocks around the Oxford Weir within 26 miles of Melbourne and on the Melbourne Wallarat stock route. Timber, water, and fencing noted with terms listed and viewing by notice to the auctioneers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. Fairbairn & Co
Bacchus Marsh
So Stoughton
Corporation Yards
Brooklyn
Exford
Melbourne
Wallarat
Adelaide
Staughding
Tuyer
Auc- Goneers
Auction notice for horses and farming goods at Mingstop Box Park
Wednesday May 16 L A Fairbairn and Co Bacchus Marsh and J J Burns and Co Geelong agents, constructed by Mr Boggs will Bell with horses farming implements and sundries to be offered at Talliang Dairybank Raweley teacher Miss Ethel Kerr seeks pupils by letter to Dairybank Raweley Trinity diploma senior honors open to receive pupils
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. Fairbairn & Co
Bacchus | Marsh
J. J. Burns & Ci
Geelong
Boggs
Will
Bell
Mingstop Box Park
Talliang
Ethel Kerr
Trinity College
Dairybank
Raweley
MacPhail Anderson Sale Of Stock And Cattle At Mac's Hotel
McPhail Anderson and Company set sale in their yards at Mac's Hotel starting at 12 30 p m featuring fat store and dairy cattle pigs and sundries with J F Ford acting as agent in charge of sale short notice auction item listing in local notices style
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McPhail, Anderson & Co
Mac's Hotel
FORD
Ballarat Auctioneers announce weekly stock sales
Coghlan Boase Co announces Graziers Farms and public that Mr Gea A Bence joins as agent. Fat cattle and sheep sale every Tuesday pigs every Wednesday horses every Friday store and dairy cattle every Friday. All stock consigned receive personal immediate attention. Phone 331 Tattersall's Ballarat Ballarat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ballarat
Farmore
Gea
A. Bence
Coghlan, Boase & Co. Tattersall’s Bavaar
Gippsland and Northern Co operative Selling and Insurance Co Ltd
Gippsland and Northern Co operative Selling and Insurance Co Ltd of 494 Flinders Lane Melbourne reports nominal capital 250000 pounds, subscribed 50000, paid 48698. Turnover for year to 10 April 1916 1390053 with profit 19570 and dividends 55076. Mrs A Burbidge appointed manager. weekend visitors catered for at Main Street Bacchus Marsh. Subscription price for Express 10 shillings per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gippsland and Northern Co-Operative Selling and Insurance CO. Ltd
Flinders Lane
Melbourne
Grarters Aurnabout
Ealeg
Newmarket
MELTON RED CROSS SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY EVENTS
Red Cross benefit by Talented Troupe of Werribee Merrymakers on May 2 with tickets 1/6 children half price doors at 7 30 pm event features music moonlight refreshments and knitting competition to aid Too ler Vale Red Cross entries due by June 3 prizes 10 5 2 6 inquiries to K Robinson final statements and tenders called by Shire Hall Ballan for local road and bridge works with plans at the hall details and deposit required by May 7 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Entertainment
Werribee Merrymakers
Moyra Smith
Toolern Vale Red Cross
Leeks
Bein
K. Robinson
Shire Hall
Ballan
Catill
Yuloak Vale
Blackwood
Myrmione
Greendale
Country Roads Board
Ballarat
Weir
Cowan's
Balan
John Y. Porter
Bal lan Town Common Herdsman Application Notice
Applications to the President are invited for the Herdsman post at Ballan Town Common. Salary 10 pounds per year. Apply by 11 a.m. on Monday May 7 at Shire Hall. Addresses by J Cotter MLA and Taylor on Monday April 30 at 8 p.m. at Bacchus Marsh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bal Tan
Shire Hall
John V. Porter
Melton Mechanics' Institute Annual Meeting Called
The Melton Mechanics' Institute will hold its annual meeting on Monday April 30 at 8 p.m. The program includes receipt of the balance sheet and election of officers for the ensuing year. Members are urged to attend. Jan H. Cunningham, Hon. Sec.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jan. H. Cunningham
Bacchus Marsh Bowling Club social night and trophies
Cheap meat E Dalton Grant Streat Bacchus Marsh announces a social evening at the Mechanics Institute on Thursday May 3. The event features presentation of trophies closing of the season good music refreshments and a gentlemen’s ticket with Lasky members free. R H Dugdale president P F Emmett secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Grant Streat
Bacchus Marsh
Mechanics’ Institute
Lasky
R. H. Dugdale
P. F Emimett
Bacchus Marsh Gun Club annual meeting notice
The annual meeting of the Bacchus Marsh Gun Club will be held at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday May 9 at 4 o'clock. All members are requested to attend. Signed G W McFarland secretary. Dates mention April 26 1917 and weather notes are unreadable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sl. McLachlan
Bacchus Marsh
1Chuly
Royal Hotel
Victoria
Aule
Andrew Gillespie
Maddinglay
Bacchis Marsh
Mararet Gillespie
Maddingley
Pyke's Creek Reservoir Water Figures and Supply
The Water Commissioner provides reservoir figures including full supply height 73 feet and volume 14,850 acre feet, present supply 620k. Last weekly return shows 11,068 acre feet with 63 feet height and output 14 cubic feet per second, down from 15 cfs the prior week.
Motor Cycles for Sale and Second Hand Bicycles
Listed items include Monarch and Humber motorcycles with powers from 3 h.p. to 34 h.p. prices range from £15 to £40. Also noted are a Sydenham side car with coach built body and Sim. tyre and a small 241p lightweight forshaft gear setup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humber
Sydenham
Sim
Ta‘Wien
Melton Biskervose Full Supply Feat Report
Fragmentary OCR summary notes a full supply involving 17 000 acre feet and a feat labeled TOM 11 520 acre feet with references to GOL Bu and UJHA. Entities appear garbled but indicate irrigation or water extraction figures and related parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ujha Eure
Bereavement notices from wartime era
A collage of bereavement notices and in memoriam messages from World War I era. Entries express thanks for sympathy after deaths in action in France and Gallipoli, with names such as Frank Dodemaide, F J Dodemuida, Alex Murdoch, Tom O’Leary, and families like Templeton and Sheppard referenced amid mournful verses and memorial dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Dodemaide
Frank
France
Ray
Egan
Ballinng
Doramamr
F. J. Dodemuida
Auatraia
Martin Booth
Rawaley
Melton area auction notices and community events in 1917
Auction and sale notices from Messrs. Fairbairn Co and Burns Co include land sales at Balliang Rockbank and Sunbury with dates in May 1917, a Melton market sale on May 5, and a Rockbank clearing sale on May 10. Red Cross concert and Melton Mechanics Institute annual meeting are noted, along with church parish changes and a Melton coursing club entry draw for May 2. Also reported is the death of Mrs. Tilley of Cotmudai.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. Fairbain & Co
Weilnonsley
Sayers
Balliang
CU. Beggs
Messrs
L. A Fairbairn & Co
Burns & Co
Sunbury
A. G. Shaw
Dunlop & Hunt
Jennings & MacInnes
Melton
McPhail's
Red Cross
Melton Red Cross
Rockbank
E.W. Fowler
Mellon Mechanics
Melton Mechanics’ Institute
Leve
Church of England
Hay
Hinedlax
Sydenham West
Melton Coursing Club
Bo Rum
Melton Event and Red Cross Concert This Week
A notice outlines a Wednesday Melton gathering followed by a dance with admission at the cheapest shilling. Rainfall for the week is tallied at two points. farmers stay busy with crops, grass thriving, some overground. Tickets for the Red Cross concert will likely be sold by the farmer or at local sales outlets as readers prepare for upcoming community events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melton
Red Cross
Pearson, Rowe, Smith & Co
Werribee
Bacchus Marsh Meeting Topics and Local Notices
Bacchus Marsh hosts a Saturday meeting at Meeks Institute with Hon Crawford Vaughan premier candidate for the National Party addressing electors. Labor voices to speak Monday evening led by E J Cotter M L A and Mr Taylor. Shire tender notices for road work advertised. Local church services, Anzac Day commemorations, and a Northern Salvation Army band visit noted with collections and thanks to supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meeks’ Institute
Baecelus Marsh
Crawford Vaughan
South Australia
National Party
E. J. Cotter
M.L.A
Me Taylor
Bacchus Marsh
Shire of Bullan
Conneil
Sinan
Po Maerul Bacelus Murch
Martell
Gippaland & Northern Cou Operative Selling Co
J. E. Cashmers
Bace Marsh
Sehulefivll
Baptist College of Victoria
Holy Trinity Chireh
Bacchus
We Anzac Lanting
Toesiay
Kelin Davis
Bacchis Marsh
Melton
Baechne Marsh
Anthom
Alice Grant
Sole
Cod
Byans
AIP Weleon
Williams
Molton
Woodward
Techs Marsh United Churches Debaring Society
North Melbourne Salvation Army Brass Land
Adjutant Schomberg
Bachus Marsh
Royal Pictures to Improve Offerings on Saturdays
Legal yartrony of pictures will be better watered for in the future than ever they have been in the past. Messrs. Simon Bros. have non as sumed full control of the management and intend to screen a better class of pictures each Saturday night. There will be no programme tonight owing to the hull being otherwise engaged. On Saturday next May 9th the new service begins with a 15 part serial The Master Key and a five reel star The heart of a painted woman featuring Madame Olga Petrova and other comedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
Simon Bros
Hull
Olga Petrova
Cough Medicine Advice For Children Warns Against Opium
A health notice cautions against giving any child cough medicine containing opium, warning of hidden dangers and possible serious illnesses. It endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as safe and effective for coughs colds and croup in children and adults, noting it contains no opium. Sold by W Grant Morton Bacchus Meesh and A Comboa Werribes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tong
Chamberlain
W. Grant Morton
Bacchus Meesh
A. Comboa
C. . Werribes
Child rider injured after horse kicks at Staighton Vale
A four year old daughter of J Murphy of Staighton Vale was kicked on the hat by a horse a few days ago and seriously injured. A separate report notes a pony shied into a kale post and capsized a gig but no one was hurt. A sale at Mr Schnee’s farm by the Gipplanland and Northern Selling Co. yielded satisfactory prices. A social by the Tool Branch of the Fairs' Union at Mec Edebs' woolshed drew good attendance and was well run by Secretary Reither.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Murphy
Staighton Vale
Pecos
Ing
Mr. Shnee
Gippelant and Northern Selling Co
Ealey
Bucelius Marsh
White
Beaneh
Fairs’ Union
Wits Hell
Mec
Edebs
Fiiday
Reither
Onder
Wml
Staughton Vale Child Injured In Horse Accident
The three year old daughter of Mr Murphy was kicked in the heel by a horse during play this morning. She was transported to Bacchus Marsh by Mr Eduls’ suitor rey with Dr Mae Donald and Tr Jutian Swith in attendance. The child is reported as improving but still not out of danger. Raulliame East visited the local tontix court on Saturday. visitors enjoyed an afternoon there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staughton Vale
Murphy
Mowlis Myornig
Bacchus Marsh
Eduls
Meth.y. Dualest Resport
Raulliame East
Council reforms and drought hinder farming progress
The correspondent reports that dry weather and hard ground delay sowing and plowing, while grass remains backward. Shire Council has added new councillors, proposing boundary improvements and consideration of Yalouk Vale joining the Shire. Frustration grows over Thistle Art enforcement and weed control as stink-wort spreads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yalouk
Vale
Bacchus Marsh
ANZAC DAY CELEBRATED AT LOCAL SCHOOL
Anzac Day was observed with enthusiasm at the local school on Wednesday. Morning lessons and a late forenoon gathering featured tributes to Australian soldiers who landed on the peninsula, followed by afternoon speeches and patriotic songs. The flag was raised as cheers for King and Empire rang out, and refreshments were served in fine autumn weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empire
Anza
Austin
Gallipoli
Also Mentioned on This Page
EB. W. Fowler
Anetion
Searling
Sir Lawrence
Fiste
Modis Gree
Sale
Ben Eadie
Pontes
Dunlop & Hunt, Pty. Ltd
Collins Steet
Jennings & McInnes
Vere
Jil Rourke Street
Im Conjunction
A G- Shaw
Parwan
Melton Market
Yar
Bacchus Marsh Coffee Palace
H.M.H
EE. M. Hodgson
the Good Valus Btoro, Bacchus Marah
Melton Red Cross Society
Toolern Vale Gun Club
Toulorn Vale
State Shoal Patriotic Fund
Mechanics” Institute
Landers
Melbourne Hospital Children’s Hospital
J. W. Albemare
P. Murnane
G. Funston
John Macpherson
Shire OF
Savings Bank
Cartrid
Ballan Town Common
National Federation Campaign
Mechanics’ Constitute
Corio
Mechanics' Institute
Cotter
Taylor
Bacchus Marsh Bowling Club
Bacchus Marsh Gun Club
G. W. McFarland
Ingle & Strange
Costumiers
Miss Campbell
Grant Acchus Marsh
REGAL
J. Skinner
Massey-Hurriy
Ule
Facil Juning
Babcock Hutter
A. Shebler
Ifor Sale
Seoil
R. Barrie
Towlern Vale
H. G. Campbell
Lyles Creek
Express
Xii St
Bacehus Marsh
Edward McDonald
Grant St
Margaret Gillespie
Bacchus Marsh Observation Station
Jin Abade
Pyke's Creek Reservoir
Motor Cycles
Cegond
H.p
Simon Beos
Kauchus Mabah
Melton Biskervose
O'Laasr
Timothy O'Leary
P. A. O'Leery
Bacobus Murah
Muapece
Alex. Murdoch
Bar
A.lf
Olln
Dardanelten
Alea
Rye
Hera
Ieabella
James Sheppard
Ruby Cannon
Jimmie Sheppard
O'Lesey
Tom
le O'Leery
Coimsdai
Marsh
van Bell
Hickey
Tifa
Viaduct Farm
Eunice Muriel Ann
Elie Vers Tampleton
Bownley
A. Templeton
Belton
Gapress
Royal Pictures
Myensong
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