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Newspaper
Melton Express
Location
Melton, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 03, 1917
Page
2
Bacchus Marsh Market sale by L A Fairbairn & Co in Corporation Yards Bacchus Marsh on Thursday March 8 starts at 11. 150 head of cattle including milkers springers and heifers. Also fat store and young cattle. 500 sheep pigs and sundries listed. Mr W B Cain Jersay bull yearlings included.
Surplus stock and assorted farm items listed for sale including cattle horses mowers engines and implements. Estates of late William Bennett Coimadai hotel and 32 acres land Mr W P Crary farm of 40 acres Eyeneebit allotments in Carter township Hine maize crop Pearce Bros Kiln paddock Millbank churns etc. Auction set for Thursday April 12 1917 in Bacchus Marsh.
L A Fairbairn and Co will auction on Thursday March 8 at 12 oclock at the Corporation Yards Bacchus Marsh a 140 acre farm on the Blackwood Road Myrmong Creek with two road frontages nine paddocks and good fencing Improvements include an eight room bluestone dwelling cottage a large stable barn milking sheds tank and garden Heavy crops have been grown and the property is described as a first class summer grazing farm The owner health has prompted sale
L A Fairbairn & Co. of Bacchus Marsh announce a public auction at the Corporation Yards Burcl s Marsh for allotments 5 6 7 of Section 14 Township of Darley area 2 acres with frontages to Albert and Wellington Streets and adjoining Messrs Barry and Kings allotments. Sale begins at 12 o'clock sharp.
An old newspaper ad promotes the Ashman tailors shop at Main GT Bacchus Marsh offering up-to-date gentleman and ladies tailoring services. It also mentions subscribing to the Express newspaper with a 2/6 quarter rate.
Executors of the William Bennett estate offer at public auction the Well-Known Coimadai Hotel a brick building with 13 rooms a six-stalled stable outbuildings and 82 acres including flats near Coimadai Mineral Springs Immediate possession and easy terms available with full details from L A Fairbairn & Co Bacchus Marsh
McPhail Anderson & Co will sell cattle in their yards near Mac's Hotel starting at 12 30 p m. Pat Store and Dairy Cattle J 8 Ford Agent Shire of Melton By laws 26 27 passed by council 1916 17 notify inspection and purchase of true copies at Melton Shire Office with a one shilling price.
Preliminary notice announces a sale by the executors of Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkins estate on Wednesday March 24. The Sunny Side property includes a 6 room dwelling, 3 acres of land beside the railway near Bachna Marsh Station, plus a 14 acre paddock adjoining Watson and Vallance properties. Household furniture, effects, and stack of oaten hay are offered. Full particulars in next issue.
To let by tender invites offers for the lease of Greenside and Plainside Properties owned by Robert Dickson. The 205 acre barangay includes 8 paddocks with sheep-proof fencing, 5 large dams and 4 underground tanks, two dwellings and outbuildings. Tender return by Monday 5 March. L A Fairbairn & Co. Bac.
A meeting of the National Federation Melton Branch will be held at the Mechanics Institute Melton tonight at 8 30. All electors eligible. Annual membership 1. Full attendance desired. Also notices of Lost Sheep and livestock, a Jinker Turnout for sale, Dun Peas for sale, and a brick house to let at Glenleo Millbank Street.
The Shire of Werribee requires every dog owner to register within 15 days from March 1 each year or within six months from litter date. Registration fee is 4 shillings. Registration Officer Daniel Rogers, Werribee. D. A. Little, Shire Secretary.
Shire of Bacchus Marsh invites tenders addressed to the Shire President to be received at the Shire Hall by 10 am on Monday March 12 1917 for cleaning the street channels in the township of Bacchus. Specifications available at the Shire Hall. Deposits of £5 accompany each tender. Le Cucq Shire Engineer March 1 1917.
Nominal capital £250000, subscribed £50000, paid up £43698. Turnover £1390053, profit £19570, bonuses and dividends £55076. Commission on Fat Stock sales at Newmarket reduced to 2 per cent for shareholders. Owing to strong state support, consign all products to the company and share profits. Subscribe to "Express" 10/1 year, 9/6 quarter.
Mr WaldeMar Seidel Ltd Lab Gold and Silver Medallist of Trinity College of Music and Associated Board London offers pupils from junior to advanced stages. 1915 16 saw 10 Teachers Diplomas and many medals for top state marks. Visits Bacchus Marsh Wednesdays. Prospectus via Mr W Seidel 157 Hoddle St Richmond or c/o Glens Collins St Melbourne.
The Shire of Ballan invites tenders at Shire Hall Ballan up to 11 am on Monday March 5 1917 for multiple war related works including new culverts at Maher's yards near Gordon, metalling and gravelling on Greendale Road and Ballark hill, gravel near Mt Wallace and Beremboke, shooting ranges near Doctors Creek to Greendale, sanitary services at Gordon and Egerton, and spill and gravel supplies for Daylesford and Mt Wal. Lowest tender receives award.
Miss Hobbs offers dressmaking and costuming services with practical Malburns experience. Workrooms located at the Hall of Commerce. Uses ladies own materials and guarantees satisfaction. A trial alteration solicited.
A J Manly notifies Bacchus Marsh residents of a new business at the stated address offering repairs with best materials and guaranteed workmanship. Firewood for sale in any length with delivery, orders via Sylvie Shea on Main Street.
B and Mrs J Bimp son and family Bacchus Marsh thank friends for letters and expressions of sympathy after the death of their son and brother Lieutenant F N Bimpson of the 8rd Australian Pionser Battil jou, killed in action.
On Saturday March 3 1917 Mol ton market is listed with full particulars advertised War Loan applications may be lodged up till Monday and April A meeting of the Molton branch of National Federation is called for this Saturday evening Rev F Stanley Love of Meredith has accepted the charge of the Church of England parish of Melton and may take a larger parish near Melbourne Hay trade and crops are noted with rising prices and good grass prospects The Melton Coursing Club forms a strong committee to run the season Mr Martin Macdonald takes over the Cochrane livery stable The National Federation branch opens in Melton with about 50 members and officers named including Dr Holden and J C F Ulbrick The federation aims to unite Australians for war effort and social unity during crisis.
Friends of Mr Thomas Lang head teacher announce that his son Private Horace Lang has been awarded the Military Cross. Trooper J J McPherson has sustained a Potts fracture on active service in Egypt and is the only son of Mrs John McPherson of Melton. Melton Shire Council calls for fresh tenders for the sanitary service with options for contractor plant or council plant. Sportsmen are reminded the quail season does not open until April Tet.
Bacchus Marsh market listings and auctions announcements via McPhail and Fairbairn partners. Tenders invited for leases of farms opposite the race course. clearing sale at Hawkins estate near the Bacchus Marsh railway station. War Loan investments due by April. town cleaning tenders, marching council meetings, and a March horticultural show entries notice. Community notices include church services, harvest festival plans, and a remark on telegraph insulator damage. Also sale of Coimadai hotel property and Drury’s Mt Blackwood farm. Local happenings from Bacchus Marsh and Ballan districts.
Will Horder, son of Mr and Mrs W Horder of Grant Street Beehus Marsh, is reported seriously wounded in action in France. A volunteer to replace him, Donald Tarnour of Cohuna and formerly of Bacchus Marsh, has enlisted. Liev Sandford, recruiting officer in charge of Corio, notified local secretary A T Oliver he will visit Bacchus Marsh on Thursday evening the 23rd to hold a public meeting at the Mechanics Institute with speakers from Melbourne. An animated picture Why Britain Went to War will be shown to draw an audience.
On Friday 42 sick and wounded soldiers traveling by train to Adelaide received tea cigarettes and fruit from the Indies of local Society. A Merrymakers troupe from Werribee offered an entertainment in Bacchus Marsh and a meeting is set for Tuesday at Shire Hall to discuss it. Donations acknowledged include pillows shirts socks washers books old linen and food items with various contributors named.
The entertainment in aid of the branch will be held Friday evening next. The secretary Mrs Jas Dugdale acknowledges gifts from Myrniong Race Club seven pounds fourteen shillings ten pence, Mrs P Shneahan books, Miss L White linen, Miss Fowler cocoa, and Friend books. Items sent away include twenty two shirts ten pairs of socks one helmet three pairs of mittens old linen books and cocoa.
A Melton Red Cross Committee gathered at the Mechanics Institute on Tuesday with Mrs. H. W. Slaughton presiding. An early May entertainment will raise funds, backed by a strong committee and generous local donations totaling £38 10s 6d in cash and substantial goods including socks, linen, books, and食品 items.
The Water Commission provides figures for Pykes Creek Reservoir including full supply height and volume, present supply levels, last weekly return, and outputs. Reported data show output at 20 cubic feet per second with last week at 23 cfs and reservoir volumes listed in acre-feet and acre-feet equivalents.
Melton Reservoir data lists height at 60 feet and volumes of 17 000 cubic feet. Additional figures include 7 feet, 11 571 feet and 13 890 feet. The item also advertises a remedy titled How to Treat a Sprain noting Chamberlain's Pain Limiting...
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