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Newspaper
Northam Courier
Location
Northam, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 24, 1920
Page
3
Arrangements for Christmas and New Year holidays include closer hours and altered mail services. Offices open 9 am to 10 pm, inward Perth mails sorted on arrival, first full letter deliveries at 9 am, and telephones at Wortham exchange to operate all day with restricted long-distance calls.
An agent near Motihata visits a farm owner weighing about 20 maunds. A heated argument erupts. A stray dog is barked at and a farmer fires a double barrel gun. The agent flees toward his car as the dog is shot and a groan is heard.
Boxing Day program at Wongamine Show Grounds features horse and foot racing plus novelty events. Sheffield Handicap cited with stalls afternoon tea refreshments and a dance at night. Joint secretary M Brennan and M G Lawler listed.
For Sale an upstanding Suffolk Punch Stallion named Royal Prince from Royal Duke Nell line, described as splendid worker and quiet. Includes contact A Schocker Carrington Street Kalgoorlie and a Kalgoorlie Mecker ing District farm sale with 274 acres 180 freehold 107 lease suitable for mixed farming. Also cheap six roomed house in Goodson Northam.
The funeral of the late Mr William Sermon, who died at his daughter M O Rourke’s Grass Valley residence on the 16th, was held Friday. Many relatives and friends followed to the Northam Cemetery Roman Catholic portion after a St Joseph’s Church service by Rev Fathers. pallbearers included Stewart, O L Bernard, P Frost, A Martin, F W Roe. Wreaths came from Sermon and family and numerous relatives.
Professor James F Gemmill of University College Dundee reports to the Dundee Natural History Society on the life history of the wheat bulb fly. Eggs are laid in bare soil beneath the surface and numerous eggs per square foot in infected potato fields lead to millions of grubs per acre, complicating prevention and urging soil and crop rotation interventions.
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