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Newspaper
Pingelly Leader
Location
Pingelly, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 14, 1906
Page
2
Service times listed for St Luke’s Pin ll with morning and evening sessions Monday through Wednesday. Names and places appear garbled but indicate organist, choir, and hymns including Beautiful Bible and Home of Rest.
Tenders for the Pingelly Local Board of Health sanitary contract for the next year will be received for twelve months starting January 1 1907. All bids must reach the Secretary by 6 pm on December 27 1906. Specifications are available from the Secretary or Chairman Williams.
Salvation Army listings show a Sunday 1 a.m. Holiness Meeting at 7.40 pony Salvation with Macling on a sermon titled The One Tone Religiia. Also noted is a Thursday children’s annual musical meeting.
Subscription rates for The Pingelly Leader shown in a compact table. Prices include per quarter in advance, per quarter booked, per annum in advance, and per annum booked with figures indicating multiple options and formats.
In a call for decentralisation, concerns grow over the Land Office’s Narrogin bias. Pingelly, Brookton, Cuballing, and Popanyining suffer from underreporting and limited local access. The writer urges MPs to inspect districts, highlight Cuballing’s railway stake, and prevent Narrogin from draining credit and revenue away from smaller towns.
The minister aims to grant land offices to the three named places and avoid making them mobile subservients to others on the route. Pingelly may not produce Premiers like Banbury but yields crops that sustains Premiers and the people.
The Dune era in Pingelly supports forming a new body for mutual town progress. Readers applaud plans for a railway siding and call for revived or new Progress Association to champion local improvements and services for the district.
A row of notices and brief reports from Pingelly discuss a planned holiday closure for the Pingelly Leapen, AM.A. meeting changes around Xmas, a new member, and an impromptu speaking session. Advertisements for Opossum and Kangaroo skins appear amid local business notices and a call for railway platform improvements with a proposed deputation to Mr George.
Tenders advertised for publican and refreshment booths at the ANA sports on New Year’s Day. W Truslove noted for tanks baths acetylene gas and gun repairs at Parade Street Pingelly. Also notices of a public ball tender in Popanyinning and Sunday organ recitals at the local church.
Mr Thos Reynolds conducted a Saturday sale of household sundries horses and cows with calves at foot. Two cows reportedly died after eating poison. Goods platform extended 16 feet to aid loading as settlers press for better facilities before the commissioner’s visit next week. Wickepin settlers celebrate near completion of a public ball while Cuballing residents are urged to subscribe to the paper and advocate rail and district improvements.
Cricket match at Quballing ended in an easy win for the social team with 141 for six and opponents scoring 37. Top scorers were Atkli 98 Roxsi 24 Davey 20 and Aylward 6. Also noted are Christmas toy sales by Mrs E Nicholson and Pingelly Cricket Club’s social and dance in the Agricultural Hall Friday evening with a strong ladies’ committee aiming to boost club finances.
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