Millicent Times District Meeting Deliberations Aug 12 1899
Millicent council wrestles with drain work tenders road openings and road maintenance. motions set advertising for jobs over £5 and road alignments near Mount Gambier Road. correspondence covers wire netting loan, Arbor Day help, fox destruction levy, and rail excursion timetables. financials show receipts and payments. cemetery vest upkeep criticized. appeals on coned to be heard December 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surveyor-General’s
A. Talbot
School Board
Harris
Narracoorte
J. Livingston
M.D
J.T. Morris
M.P
Mount Muirhead
Ranger
Nitschke
T. Ford
McCourt
Times
Rich
Mount Gambier Road
Mount Muirhead Hill
Adelaide
Millicent
Carty Board of Health
F. Holzgrefe
Eolong Racecourse
Spehr
Union districts meeting on fox bonus and sheep figures
The report notes a Monday meeting at Osma where the union of districts was deemed lapsed due to low attendance. A discussion on paying a fox bonus followed, with the clerk stating foxes cost £18 last year. It was estimated there were 20,000 sheep in the district, and Dr. McCourt was mentioned.
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Osma
McCourt
Local Option Poll Meeting in Mount Gambier August 8
A public meeting on local option was held in Mount Gambier on Tuesday evening August 8, presided by Mr W Senior with church representatives present. The committee noted poll date August 19 and speakers urged voters to support local option while arguing against additional liquor licenses and noting economic and moral concerns for Millicent and district.
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Mount Gambier
W. Senior
W. H. Hanton
Temperance
T. Dowding
Adjutant Hanns
T. Trestrail
Millicent
Salt Lake
Pe Oa
Presen
Millicent as Origin of Local Option Movement Urged
A Millicent based claim about the local option movement is challenged, asserting the origin was Millicent not Mount Gambier. The speaker warned of voter boycotts and invited supporters of the proposed license to meet on a Millicent platform with any champion they could muster. He closed with a stirring appeal to the voters.
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Millicent
Mount Gambier
London Wool Prices Reported by Grice and Co
London wool prices via Grice and Co show Penola and Krongart lots with grey and combing wools trading from 8d to 18d per pound. Other stations including NH, MM, EG, JR, CT, CP, TELANG, EH, EF, DC, GILLAP, BOWOKA, MAROUPE, GLENROY, Lincoln and WB list assorted scoured and combing grades with bel lies, lambs, pes, and crosses at 6d to 18d.
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Grice and Co
London
Conmurra
Parks
Bowoka
Gray Farm
Monbulla
Glenroy
Lincoln
Fernleigh
Osledonian Society Chief Elected At Annual Meeting
At the South Australian Osledonian Society annual gathering on Tuesday evening Mr A J McLachlan was elected Chief without opposition, succeeding Mr J Wyles. He urged renewed enthusiasm and aims to make the society the premier association of its class in the colony. Mr C L Spehr, QOLticrror and Commissioner for taking affidavits, visits Millicent every Monday with a $10,000 security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Spehr
Qolticrror
Millicent
South Australian Osledonian Society
A. J. McLachlan
J. Wyles
McLachlan
Register
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the Millicent Times
Board of Health
Williams’ Road
John Grice & Co
Mai & Morphett
Tantrain
Elder, Smith & Co., Ltd
Goolaspeanes Mort, & Co., Ltd
Melurne
Powers, Rutherford & Co
Melbourne
Coles & Pullum
Ballarat
A. E. Smith & Co
Casterton
Lancashire Fire Insurance, Co
N.B
W. Downs
H. H. Osborne
Mayurra
Wools Sales
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