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Newspaper
Port Pirie Recorder
Location
Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 30, 1925
Page
2
Shipping entries list high tide arrivals and port calls. Names such as Anchorage Barus Whert Whit Ansty Balla and Barus Whert appear with vague dates and locations. The fragmentary text mentions various vessels, wharves, and potential engagement notes across multiple harbors and waterways.
Unclear OCR fragment mentions movements and individuals with scattered details. Key names like Tatiana and Akad appear among vague references. The text references volumes, dates, and locations but lacks a coherent event or outcome.
Fragmented OCR notes describe shop items, prices, and bargains with unclear names and places. The legible bits mention investments, hills, towns, and a few monetary references, but the overall flow is jumbled and names are partially unreadable.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a sailing by Adelaide Steam Tug Co Ltd from or to Whyalla and associated dates. The text mentions perishable cargo, small fines, and returns around December and January, with unclear names and details. The readable items include a voyage, a port and a rough date sequence but lack precise facts.
The Adelaide Steamship Company timetable lists ships to Port Adelante and Port Germein with calls at Port Pirie Port Augusta Lincoln and Adelaide on Saturdays and Mondays. The notice specifies sailing times at 2 pm for certain ports and includes repeated references to Port Adelaide and other ports in a period voice.
Fragmented notice shows tenders to be received by January for civil work in Port Pirie area. It lists Fugin Jenkins as architect and includes garbled references to office and tender requirements.
The Port Pirie corporation advertises tenders for chaff and surveying work. The notice references Moyle as surveyor and townslanger details with location and intent to erect future development in the district. The fragmented text indicates official bidding and municipal planning actions.
Guidance on removing yellowing and discoloration from whites using borax, cream of tartar, and thorough rinsing. Recommends soaking in cream of tartar solution overnight and boiling borax in water for stain treatment, plus tips on avoiding shrinkage and achieving bright whites with proper rinsing and ironing.
Me OL and Taylor, penniless mapper at Shorediten, now runs a new scavenger dustman service under the borough council. He recalls being called a sucker by a man he later defeated in a fleetion incident.
An item from Che Recorder Publisher Daily provides a fragmented notice with unclear event details and stray phrases about a Wednesday timetable and Mega at Tigi, offering minimal readable facts for a compact newspaper card.
The readable passages discuss hospital systems and aging populations with references to Australia. It mentions the need for seven hospitals per population, hospital efficiency, and public funding. The tone resembles a period health policy debate with scattered names and terms.
Port Pirie Police Court: Willis Gardiner charged with drunkenness, fined £4 plus costs. John Daly fined for betting at Hashyoy Hotel on December 26. Excursion trips to Port Pirie well patronized, about 500 attending, with 200 children noted. Police reports say Christmas period quiet, one serious offense, otherwise routine. Mail service had 46 delays but overall satisfactory operations. extra stamps needed for peak season. Scout activities planned to continue with a bathing expedition and coastal disturbances noted. weather warnings and travel arrangements described.
A suspect identified as a man named Roberts was captured after a night-time home invasion in Prospect Garden area. Police pursued after a reported break in at a residence on Watell tense Madden arr Ve Mig, with jewellery and £456 in cash recovered from the suspect. The arrested individual had been staying at a Falstation Army facility prior to capture.
An early issue profiles Mrs. Aunt Tisaet as the voted author and tutor on religious philosophical and scientific topics. She serves as president of the Theosophical Society with headquarters at Adyar Madras India.
The latest Australian crime statistics report a grim 1924 25 record including vast activity from petty betting to manslaughter. Divorces rose from 23 in 1915 to 193 in 1924 with 15 decrees in 1925. insolvency liabilities reached £262 959 against £167 982 assets. Insolvents span trades, professions, and domestic workers, with rail and transport figures prominent. Theft, forgery, fraud, drunkenness, and violent crime populate court dockets. The report notes 4 226 drunkenness convictions and a broad mix of nationalities among detainees, ages ranging from 11 to above 70, and 96 committed to mental hospital care amid a year of 94 inquests and multiple accidental deaths. Police force size and costs surged, with 64 000 regular officers and 100 black trackers and female searchers, costing £245 923 for the year.
London dispatch states arrangements are completed for a patent nights of the Keorall domes wheels to be joined with the Vickers-Aussie tractor. This move will give Vickers an interest in the British-Australasian Tractor Company as Sir Keith Smith joins the board of Waters.
The piece argues that minds are better kept private and that private individuals, especially women, drive social service. It cautions against imposing personal tastes and stresses personal privacy as a sacred value while noting the impact of private conduct on public welfare.
In Port Pirie a peculiar bell tradition unfolds each Sunday at 6 45 pm. The small bell on the Genie Methodist Mission steers local worship until 7 pm, drawing passers by and congregants who listen to the ten second chimes. A churchgoer recalls nearly forgetting to ring the bell and running half a mile to arrive on time, while others lament the town’s lack of bell towers.
Readers report a brisk return to routine after Christmas in Port Birie. Shops opened daily. assistants swept and dusted, doors, counters, and windows redecorated. Shipping and customs offices buzzed as ships’ masters and waterfront workers resumed tasks while drink-related incidents were few.
Lat Malley of the Waterside Workers' Federation says a brisk port scene with about 400 workers earning 50 shillings daily. The Hearthlixen and Trewen load at Bulle Wharf, Hho Dorls works at Warrior Wharf, Went worth oat loads at yuren's wharf, while the sindsters wharf hosts ila Mar Whibther and Anglo Indian. Seka Mart discharges timber at Bellway, alongth is busy and four vessels are in port.
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