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Newspaper
Port Adelaide News
Location
Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 24, 1925
Page
1
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The Adelaide Steamship Company sails the Wandana to Port Lincoln to restore mail and passenger service to the West Coast during a waterside workers strike. Despite initial refusals to coal the ship, staff volunteers loaded 50 tons in two and a half hours and the vessel departed on schedule with passengers, mails, and three motor cars aboard. The voyage aims to reconnect Gulf ports with Adelaide, with returns planned and crews signing on as disruption continues.
Under city patronage the Port Adelaide procession from Largs Reserve features the Port Adelaide Municipal Band and school bands from Largs and Westbourne Park Public School. Prizes awarded for costumes packets of lollies and sports events including kite flying and swimming with guidance from the Largs Amateur Swimming Club. A day of band performances and an evening concert is planned with additional sales of vanity mirrors and tool collectors.
The Wandana returned to Port Adelaide with passengers mails and a motor car after sailing from Port Lincoln on Sunday afternoon. Port Adelaide wharf laborers and Water side Workers protest saying the vessel should not operate under current conditions. Melbourne later declared Gulf boats white again restoring the old agreement. Seamen's Union secretary A C Woodsford announced further actions.
Port Adelaide harbormaster Captain W F Baddams presided over a Marine Board inquiry into the Gulf steamer Quorna after it struck Buffalo Reef near dawn last Sunday and returned to Port Adelaide damaged. Representatives from the Quorna’s master, second mate, the Merchant Service Guild, and the Commonwealth Navigation Department attended. Captain Baddams will report the investigation results to the board.
Constable Scott reported that around 11.45 a.m. a man was thrown from a horse and dragged by a stirrup toward Port Adelaide Casualty Hospital. The injured man, later identified as Robert Lovegrove of Cheltenham, was taken to Adelaide Hospital with a suspected fractured skull.
Sunday schedule lists a.m. baptismal service on the subject Believer's Baptism. 2.30 Bible School followed by 7 p.m. service on Gratitude. A Welcome Awaita You.
An interesting series of talks will be given in the R A O B Hall Port Road Alberton each Sunday evening at seven under the Christadelphian Church. Next Sunday an address will be given. There will be no collection. Bring your Bibles. All welcome.
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