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Newspaper
Northam Courier
Location
Northam, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 02, 1920
Page
2
News and notes recounts the Prince of Wales visiting Northam next Thursday drawing a projected record crowd. Various brief items cover auctions, pestering riots in Italy, and community notices from Perth and surrounding regions.
The 44th Battalion Association invites country members in Perth for the Prince’s Visit to attend a reunion and smoke social at St George’s Hall on Friday at 8 p.m. President C Longmore urges comrades to meet. Government Land Sale notice lists Brace Reck Town lots and Buntine Merredine and Wooroloo Town lots with prices and allotments.
Tenders are invited for the water supply quarters renovation project in Cunderdin. Bids close on the advertised date with details available from the Public Works office. Suppliers must meet all regulatory requirements and provide completion timelines.
The Salvation Army launches its annual self denial appeal to raise funds for relief work. Since 1881 in Adelaide the army has grown to 1265 corps and outposts with over 2000 officers and employees. It runs homes, hospitals, shelters, and institutions for the needy, extending its world wide prisoner work and boys and girls homes in Australia. Harrold Repbie calls it The Army of the Helping Hand.
An old verse criticizes true virtue versus hypocrisy, noting saints and Pharisees alike. It contrasts claimed fearlessness of death with practical clamor for Wood's Great Peppermint Cure during cold seasons.
J EK Carter lists a range of wines including port muscat and family port with bottle prices from 1s 6d to 2s. Hardy's Muscat and Hardy's Port show 2s per bottle, stock all leading brands at city prices.
A brief note records that after moments for the East Northam Depot the firm of Carter and Barr is appointed to receive entries from farmers and others, with those lists and tales of bovine ore sheep arses referenced in the text.
Sheep owners in the Meckering district are asked to book early for the coming season. Expert shearers will manage the operation with wool to be shorn, classed and sealed ready for sale. Shearing begins early September 1920 with arrangements by local proprietors.
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