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Newspaper
Melton Express
Location
Melton, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 27, 1917
Page
2
Advertisement offering garden supplies including hose spades shovels forks rakes mowers and seeds. Also pest sprays arsenate of lead line lotion and other garden items. Ends with a list of tools and seeds for flowers and vegetables and pest control products.
On Thursday November 4 the Gippsland and Northern Co operative Selling and Insurance Co Ltd will hold a monthly sale. They will offer 200 head of cattle including dairy cattle and store cattle, 18-month-old stock, fat cattle, dairy cows and bullocks. Also 40 store cattle, 6 and 8 tooth cattle, wethers and 35 prime spring lambs. J Seelford, local representative.
Gippsland Northern Co operative Selling and Insurance Co Ltd based in Melbourne reports nominal capital 250 000 subscribed 57 015 paid up 49 106 with a 24 percent commission on fat stock sales at Newmarket for shareholders. Turnover 1 954 026 bonuses 56 998 dividends 9 716. All farm produce on consignment. Monthly sale held at Ballan second last Thursday. Local agent A W Flack Ballan.
Classified egg and poultry notice listing Pure White Leghorns four selling, extra pen birds, two year old Padman hens, Swift-Lawson cockerel, week old chicks, and ducks with prices per unit. Names W West Gell Street Bacchus Marsh J Lodge Rosebank Bacchus Marsh and J Palmer Myrniung. Eggs for sale include White Leghorn and Black Orpingtons five shillings per dozen on wetting.
J Chambers carpenter of Gell Street Bacchus Morah offers employment by day through a contract. Advertises 900 designs of houses ta thers from furniture made and repaired. Fly Donets coal safes ladders barrows and more with guarantee of satisfaction.
On Friday November 2 at 1 o'clock Mr R Gaitskell will stage a clearing sale including stock farm implements a $3 mixed horses a 10 hp Blackstone oil engine a double bager and chaffendler Payne gal iron shed and tanks straw hay and sundries Also the 175 acre farm adjoining Footscray road 21 miles from Melbourne and 37 acres of ont weeds growing and ing well
Land near Myrniong at Koroebil Marylands comprising 102 acres 2 roods 9 perches Allot 1 Parish of Myrniong currently leased to William Symons until March. Assets include a snug rich farm with a good farmhouse outbuildings and frontage to Myrniong Creek plus a paddock leasehold. Auction by L A Fairbairn & Co Perth district estate wind up.
Navy sale notice for a two storey brick building at Main and Graham Streets Bacchus Marsh, fronting 45 ft by 1200 ft depth, 14 rooms, tenanted drapery and Beveler's Studio with dwelling quarters. Auction at the Corporation Saleyards at 12 o'clock. Estate wind up with good terms and immediate possession if required. L A Fairbairn & Co Bacchus Marsh.
Mrs Ercexe O Cassus will sell by auction at the Corporation Yards Bacchus Marsh on the above date at 12 oclock. Comprising a commodious dwelling with six large rooms, detached servants quarters, laundry and store room. About two acres land with stables sheds and outbuildings in a prime Bacchus Marsh position. L A Fairbairn Co. auctioneers. Also a public lecture Entitled The War and Industrial Democracy by Miss Vida Goldstein at Mechanics Hall Racehius Marsh on Nov 1 with Rev Sinclair in attendance. Questions invited. Dont miss this opportunity to help homeland buy war loan byode.
Several World War I death notices list Private Alfred Bromiley Private Albert Jackley Private James Edgerton and others killed or died of wounds in France or in action. Names include Parker Fyfe Fyfe Heyward Murphy Ramsey and Baxter among families in Bacchus Marsh and Geelong with memorial verses and official notices.
Melton district notices list clearing sale at Mr. Gaitskell on Friday and a Melton sale by McPhail Anderson & Co on Saturday. Auction results note draught horses to £25, reapers and binders to £25. Memorial services announced for Ted Lovell and Rockbank death, with Red Cross and local helpers seeking linen and parcels. Liberty Loan drive and local nominations discussed, with Melton and Rockbank dates and speakers planned for week ahead.
The Gippsland Co operative Co publishes multiple sales for Bacchus Marsh on November 8 including the late Mr Thomas Cain’s Millbank Street residence and the Hall of Commotes buildings. Auctions by L A Fairbairn & Co and notices on Korobwit farms, estate sales, and local events. Also lists a meeting of District Bay Ex cursion delegates and upcoming agricultural show.
Bacchus Marsh State School to help Flower Day with a show and sale of pot plants in the afternoon, proceeds aiding State School War Repatriation Fund reaching £212,000 with large donations to soldiers and relief efforts. Fire in Grant Street destroys a woolen shop, while a grand memorial service planned at Mechanics Institute honours fallen troops alongside local church notices and notices for 1918 diaries and irrigation records.
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