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Newspaper
Northam Courier
Location
Northam, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 02, 1920
Page
2
Townsfolk face closed businesses and a Canderdin market sale on Thursday with sheep cattle horses and farming gear. Council finances and local issues are summarized while regional rainfall and meat inspections are noted along with a fundraising fire brigade demonstration plan and a NZ Romney Marsh sheep sale anecdote.
An Eastern rumor claims eggs were incubated near Rourke’s camp. The Lach watchers, about 50 yards away, report no danger. An old man winks and approaches, finding solder on the track. The beat notes bullets melted between rifle sights near the roo.
During 1914 to 1917 western holdings faced heavy losses as Donald M Leod Cameron and Herbert Nagier Leonard challenged rent determinations for Hogan Thulla in Warrego district. Witnesses cited £14,442 loss in 1915-16 and £12,636 in 1916-17 with 1918 profit £10,042 and 1919 profit £2,324, total roughly £10,000 loss, plus costs to clear prickly pear. The property valued at £13,622 lease £13,368, cattle and horses valued at £142,750, 13,000 head cattle and 100 horses, area about square miles, drought halving cattle between 1914 and 1915.
Listing of land lots offered for sale at Northam District Lands Office includes Beefording Sub lot Ida Ir 5p priced £16 145 10x Ir A7p £12 and various town lots in Bence Rock Korbel Merredin Nukarni Nungarm with prices from £15 to £35 for cultivation use and suburban plots.
Tenders for the teacher quarters at Waddouring School will be received by the Minister for Works until noon on April 20. The notice also lists bids for courthouses at Northam and Merredin.
Tenders for repairs and renovations at Northam Central School are invited by the Minister for Works to be received by noon on April 13. Details and particulars are available at the Courthouse in Northam.
In a dramatic line from a historical page, Cardinal Wolsey laments that had he shown equal zeal to God as to the king, he would not have faced defeat and exposure in his later years. The remark invokes themes of faith, power, and downfall.
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