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Newspaper
Port Pirie Recorder
Location
Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 12, 1925
Page
3
Winter meeting set for Wednesday June 24 at the club office of A. H. J. Goode and Co. Nomination indications show good support while Gordon and weights will be published tomorrow. Publican rights and refreshment booths will be auctioned at 11.30 am amid renewed local interest in the club’s future welfare.
The Port Pirie Racing Club agrees to transfer control to the Port Pirie Licensed Victuallers’ Association after a series of reverses. A special meeting approved the offer with 20 votes in favor and ongoing plans to formalize the transfer at a forthcoming committee meeting.
Tennis club action at Risdon Park with mixed doubles handicaps. Play starts 2.30 pm with teams including McLean and Miss B Collins, K Williams and Mrs Le Lievre, Schultz and Mr Twells, Smith and Mr H Fiddaman, Kooy and Mrs Knox, Walsh and Mrs Limbawe, Collins and Miss McInerney, Esher and Mrs Piddaman.
The three teams kept up training with proprietors and St Mark's holding a good meeting on Thursday. Solomonton trained at Globe Oval and whites prepare for tomorrow's game against a weaker St Mark's. Hop King and Lunhe are ill. Perimenter and Manifold are away. St Mark's will be minus Lukeman due to a leg injury.
A retired municipal worker, once Hungarian and now Romanian, asked for his wife’s grave to be moved after ten years. He claimed neglect and rubbish around the tomb to place a new grave for her, then confessed plans to steal his wife’s jewelry and place it in her coffin for profit. Prosecution looming as motives revealed.
Vintage clothing sale notices list Wool Vests in various styles and sizes from 3/6 to 6/11, long and short sleeves, lace fronts, and all wool options. Ladies underskirts, spencers in natural color, and knitted wool spencers priced 3/44 4/6 with special value offers. Various colors for hats and straw hats with sale price 7/14 each.
Public notices describe multiple acres for sale with freehold titles and varying prices per acre or per arable unit. Terms are described as easy or good, with references to improvements such as walls and houses, livestock quantities, and accompanying furniture and property sales.
An old advertisement promotes Nurseryman Solomontown stock with Gladioli Roses fruit trees grape vines and seeds. It lists prices and items including arsenate of lead and nicotine as garden supplies and urges orders promptly for best pick of stock. The ad mentions various fruits and garden products and warns about garden destruction by pests.
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