A dilapidated Port Adelaide police station
Describes a deteriorating Port Adelaide Police Station two months after plaster fell from the ceiling. Half the ground floor ceiling removed, with no prospect of repair for months. Rest room and charge room are makeshift spaces with broken glass, draughty partitions, and weather exposure. Officers endure poor furnishings, low pay deductions for room use, and crowd into the plainclothes office for warmth and meals. MP J TD Jonas plans to press authorities to repair the building.
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Port Adelaide
Plainclathes
Must
J TD. Jonas
Adelaide
Tom
Empire Day Letter From Port Adelaide Mayor
The Port Adelaide district schools received a letter from Mayor A O R Tapp urging Empire Day observance. The note praises loyalty to King George IV and the British Empire, asks staff and scholars to carry forward the empire’s traditions, and expresses best wishes for the students and staff.
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Port Adelaide
A. O. R. Tapp
Samely
Lefevre's Peninsula
Ethelton
Alberton
Lares
George IV
Duke and Duchess of York
Great Britain
Finger Amputation After Steamer Accident at Outer Harbor
Alexander Dadlitl, a waterside worker on the steamer Ulysses at the Outer Harbor, had his right hand fingers crushed on Monday afternoon. He was taken to Port Adelaide Casualty Hospital where the middle finger was amputated at the first joint and stitches were applied to other fingers.
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Alexander Dadlitl
Ulysses
Outer Harbor
Port Adelaide
Death of Former Glanville School Master Edward Sterling
Edward Simeon Sterling former head master at Glanville Public School died suddenly at Moorlands on May 16 1920 aged 68 born January 8 1852 near Mount Barker educated at Halindort College served as head teacher in Yorketown Rowland's Flat Lyndoch Tanunda Kapunda Glanville Grote Street Brompton Wellington Road and held advisory duties in 1908 his career spanned many districts he married Sophia Koop in 1876 and left a widow with three sons after resigning due to ill health on September 16 1920 he planned to retire to Glenels but did not live to enter his new home.
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Edward Simeon Sterling
Glanville
Ethelton School
Moorlands
Mount Barker Sunelvin
Halindort College
Yorketown
Rowland’s Flat
Arn Lyndoch
Mary
Tanunda
Kapunda
Gland Rile
Grote Street
Brompton
Wellington Road
Vans
Sophia Koop
W. Koop
Glenels
Veteran Railway Servant Perrin Retires After Long Service
Mr Ward J Perrin a longtime Port Adelaide railway porter retires after decades in South Australia railway work. Born in London May 27 1849 he shipped to Australia 1876 and worked at Hooker ironworks river steamers government yards Glanville and Port Adelaide wharves before joining the railways in 1888. He recalls Peterhead Station tenure and marriage to Grace Bastard in 1880 at St Pauls Adelaide.
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Miteray
South Australia
Port Adelaide
Ward J. Perrin
Port Adelaide’ Dock
Perrin
London
Agusta
Riga
Aga
Canada
Thames
Per Benang
Hooker's Ironworks
Hindley Street
Adelaide
Lower
Percin
al Messrs. Hickson and Slade
Priestman
Iris
Mc Perrin
McLaren
Blind
Bruce
Peterhead
Grate Bastard
St Paul's Church
Charles Bastard
City Baths
Man Hurt in Car Collision at Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide police report a man stepped from a footpath into a car on St. Vincent Street near Jervois Bridge. Hector James Harens drove the vehicle to Port Adelaide Casualty Hospital where the injured man, Patrick Byrnes, was treated for a broken arm and two broken teeth before being moved to Adelaide Hospital.
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Hector James Harens
Martin Street
Birkenhead
Port Adelaide
St. Vincent Street
Jervois Bridge
Harens
Adelaide Fospital
Patrick Byrnes
Yatala
Sloping Floor Warnings At Outer Harbor Wharf
Port Adelaide reports danger from a sloping floor in shed No 2 at Outer Harbor. Waterside workers and unions debate tests and safety measures as potential disruption to cargo handling looms, with talks of Harbors Board intervention and vessel berthing plans amid ongoing arbitration.
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Ty Tre Iy
Harbors Board
Department
Harn Construction
Therl
Sonsignees
Onter Mar. Dor
Liv Idens
al Alies
Arbitration Court
South Australia
Public speaking class weighs Port Adelaide hospital plan
Port Adelaide public speaking classes met in the Town Hall on May 17. discussions split by gender debated how to spend a £5000 gift, with men backing a new hospital ward and women proposing funds toward a new Port Adelaide hospital building, underscoring community support for hospital expansion.
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Port Adeisile
Town Hall Council Chamber
H. E. Deakin
Bicker
McEwin
H. Bray
J. Pearce
Javies
Miss Deakin
WeEwin
Catherine
West
Cockington
Langford
Kemsley
Port and Adelaide
Port Adelaide
Whitfield
W.E
Bullitine Moa
Narrow Gauge Confusion On Suburban South Australian Rail
Two immigrant travelers aboard the P. Branch Service steamer Heltana caused amusement after one claimed the suburban rail line uses two gauges. They explained at Glanville that a change is needed to reach Adelaide, implying two gauges exist on the South Australian suburban system.
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Outer Harbor
Approaches to Port Adelaide Wharfs Meeting Discusses Roads
A gathering of Port Adelaide representatives and interest holders met at the Institute of Marine Engineers Building in Divett Street to review road and approach conditions to the wharves. A committee of Crompton Tonkin Allen and Stephens was named to investigate and report at a future meeting.
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Port Adelaide
Institute of Marine] Engineers
Divett Street
J. E. Stephens
Federated Carters’ and Drivers’ Union
A. Crompton
Messrs
A Crompton
Tonkin
Allen
JB. Stephens
Drunk and Indecent Charge At Port Adelaide Court
Johry Carter appeared before Port Adelaide Police Court with charges of being drunk in Commercial Road on Monday afternoon and indecent behavior at Commercial Road railway station. Inspector Noblee prosecuted. He was fined 13 shillings for the first offense and 15 shillings for the second, with ten days imprisonment in default.
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Johry Carter
Ho Richards
PA. Blix
Port Adelaide
Commercial Road
J. E . Noblee
Motor car overturns near Osborne in Port Adelaide
A Port Adelaide ambulance driver reported that John William Walker of the Minories Port Adelaide was driving from Outer Harbor with several men when a sharp corner near Osborne caused the front wheel to collapse and the car to overturn. Driver Walker and passenger Henry Scotman were taken to Casualty Hospital for facial cuts after the 1:30 a.m. incident.
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Harry Robertson
Port Adelaide
Pure
Farber
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Venience
Association
Kirby
Vincent Street
Spm
Laubman
Chartres Ltd
Sele
Remington Typewriters
Fort Adelaide
W. Wineley
K Wilson & Sons
Amure Im
Bert Mast
Church OF Christ
C. Brooker
W. C. Brooker
Bible School
Christ
Port Tors Hall
P. A. Milnesotowe Bond
Miliary Sum Aemae
Mupnore
Agtat
Mercantile Muteal Insurance Co, Ltd
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