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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 20, 1901
Page
2
Cash only prices for a wide range of groceries and household goods. Items include butter, canary seed, caraway seed, cocoanut, corn flour, tartar, flour, dried fruits, seeds, jams, matches, soap, rice, pickles, and more. Prices stated as cash terms with no credit.
The readable fragments show numbers such as 19 15 60 90 18 1h but no coherent event, names, places, or actions to summarize into a proper news item.
Fragmentary OCR item reports titles and names such as Jock and Prodwce Maruct with references to sections and hundreds. Details are unclear but imply local notices or notices of burning or events dated in a historical district with named individuals J. Denidson and Mr. Mitchell.
Anmarna Livarroce Maurer reports varied cattle bids with fat stock and dairy prices falling while oxen and bullocks command higher sums. Calves and porker prices rise. small yarding yields brisk competition from buyers, reflecting strong market demand and overall high prices.
In a Saturday issue the harbor report by Mr. Lindon Baton weighs a Robe based scheme versus Kingston. The analysis outlines costs of harbor works and feeding railways, with estimates near £980,000 for Robe and £1,990,000 for Kingston. Government view focuses on the total expenditure and strategic value of a southern harbor.
The article argues for a deep water harbor in the South East at Robe to keep the trade channel open with external markets and prevent drift to Victoria. It cautions against rail reliance, notes Port Adelaide and Portland as alternatives, and emphasizes the strategic importance of a new harbor for export of stock and goods, projecting economic and political consequences if seaborne routes are neglected.
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