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Newspaper
Northam Courier
Location
Northam, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Feb 13, 1912
Page
4
A dense listing of local trades and services including accountants, tailors, dentists, veterinary surgeons, milliners, butchers, hotelkeepers, and other merchants. Names include Arthur Bell, Fitz Gerald Street firms, Hemingway & Co, McPherson & Co, Milner & Co, Nicholson, and many others with varied trades and locations.
The readable text lists LES. EDGAR as a dressing saloon owner alongside BR HOLMES with stationery and moods, mentioning Togerdine a plumber and ear fitter. It references tanks baths chimneys and requisites for various trades and services in a fragmentary catalog.
Coastal and Boan Bhos. drapers at Wellington street in Perth list management with Stewart Dawson and Co jewellers on Hay Street Perth Pearse and Lee merchants Open Markets Henry Wills and Co work and Produce buyers agents for farming accessories Fremantle Patterson and Co auctioneers for produce Fremantle appear in the same catalog of local businesses and services.
The Agricultural Board discusses suitable wheat varieties for drought districts in the Wheat Belt. Canberra Progress Association cites Federation as inferior and prefers Comeback, while Sutton notes Federation remains common due to supply constraints and advises spreading seed choices to farmers.
Mr. Bath announced government seed wheat distributed by a new board has delivered 300 to 900 bags daily from Northam plants. Federation seed dominates the supply, with 318 applications totaling about 0.00 bushels. Farmers in Daye rin Mertelin receive most of the Wheat while grading and allocation procedures proceed with urgency.
The programme lists matches for the English cricket tour in Australia. Key dates include Fourth Test at Melbourne and matches against New South Wales and South Australia with dates in February and March. The schedule names locations and order but contains OCR errors in city spellings and years.
The Trapwell meeting at the Fenny tomorrow sees 135 entries the largest ever for a Eastern District meeting. A special train leaves Northam at 4 o'clock and returns directly after the last race. The handicap for each event follows.
The program for the February meeting at Goomalling races includes seven events led by the Macintosh Handicap of £7 10s for horses without prize wins of £5, seven furlongs. Other events include Trial Stakes, Sapling Stakes, Gel loway Race, Goomalling Handicap, Hack Race, and Flying Handicap. Nominations close with secretary Mr A J Horkly in Goomalling and Mr Jr Gollan in Northam on February 15.
Weights for the Newmarket Randicap and Austration Day races are listed for the V.i-C. nest venue. The notice details official weights and likely assignments for horses in the forthcoming autumn meeting.
Official programme for Goomalling Race Club detailing trials and handicaps with prize money. Events include Trial Stakes eight pounds, Sapling Stakes for two year olds, Goomalling Handicap, Macintosh Handicap and Smack Race among others. Nomination deadlines and fees listed with local organizers J R Hodle and J Gollan.
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