Dairying Scheme Prompts Western Australia Growth Outlook
The Commonwealth plan to co operate the dairy industry across Australia aims to remove middlemen and base the system on Danish lines for overseas marketing. In the Great Southern Districts, farmers shift from wheat to stock raising. dairying, pig raising, and silage improvements are viewed as future mainstays as land occupation expands and fertiliser use rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth
Australia
Denmark
Western Australia
Great Southern
England
Sither
Fertiliser adoption urged to boost farm output
The article advocates fertiliser use to improve grazing and grain land yields amid wartime taxation. It cites Australia and Victoria's experiments with top dressing and superphosphate to double carrying capacity, urging landholders to switch to dairying on smaller holdings as a more profitable option than sheep.
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Australia
Victorian Director of Agriculture
Community Notes and Local Returns From Katanning
News and notes from Katanning include the Cottage Gardeners Society meeting at the Parish Hall, announces of winter wear sales by Richardson and Co, and soldiers settlement updates with Thorstas Hunt granted land near Jingalup. Local troops returning home, electoral provisions for under age service members, and a couple of motor car fires are reported alongside a Welcome Home social for returning servicemen and band accompaniment.
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Cottage Gardeners’ Society
The
Katanning Cottage Gardeners’ Society
Jingalup
Kororup
Thorstas Hunt
Divine Service and Local Notices in Katanning and Kojonup
The Rev H Moore of Katanning will conduct a Divine Service at 3 pm Sunday in the Theatre Royal Kojonup. Deboe and Co offer a month free trial on above separators. Rev E S Dorman lectures in Katanning Town Hall on Cameos of the Conflict and in Woodanilling on Fragments from France. Tonight at Katanning Town Hall repatriation program features The Seal of Silence and The Mystery of the Double Cross. Keeley brothers announce purchase of M C Dunnon business in Katanning with agency lines including IHC Harvestora and Temperance Mutual Life.
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H. Moore
Katanning
Kojosup
Theatre Royal
Dome
Messrs, Debbie and Co
Messrs, Richardson and Co
Katanning Town Hall
E. Dorman
France
Earle Williams
Stuart Blackton
Gilbert Parker
Keeley Bros
Mesers
Joe
Gus
Keeley
M. C. Dunnon
Clive Street
W.A. Bank
IHC
Harvestera
Deering and McCormick Farm Implements
Metters Ltd
Padbury Store, Ltd
Ocean, Accident and Guarantees Corporation, Ltd
Temperance and General Mutual Life Association
Arm Amputation After Kojonup Chaffcutting Accident
On Friday morning at Kojonup Mr H V Piesse’s chaffcutting plant injured Jack Norrish 17 when his coat became caught in a 14 hp engine. His arm was severed at the shoulder after he was thrown by moving machinery. He is at Katanning Hospital in severe shock but is expected to recover.
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H. W Piesse
Kojonup
Jack Norrish
J. W. Norrish
H. V. Piesse
Letter From General Birdwood Praises Military Cross Hero
Lieutenant H B Smith of Moosebing receives a letter from General Birdwood congratulating his son Horace on earning the Military Cross. The note recalls his gallant action near Fontaine les Cappy with three men against a machine gun post, capturing eight prisoners and driving the rest away.
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F. E. Smith
Moosebing
Birdwood
Horace
H. B. Smith
Friends
Fontaine Les Cappy
Dun
Childare Cheat Complaint Woods Great Pepperarint Cure
A brief item notes an issue titled 1 9 and 89 involving Childare Cheat Complaint Woods and a claimed cure called Great Pepperarint. This compact record records the names and the unusual phrase as read in the source.
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Childare
Pneumonic Influenza Quarantine Ordered in Perth Metropolis
Health officials impose a metropolitan quarantine as pneumonic influenza spreads with 24 cases and one death in Perth and additional suspicious cases in Fremantle and Leonora. Inoculation is urged amid warnings from Dr Cumpston and local boards to prepare for isolation wards and stock preparations for fleet train arrivals from Melbourne.
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Perth
Health Department
Fremantle
Leonora
Blackboy
Forthcoming Sheep Sales Across Katanning and Cranbrook Markets
Dalgety and 70 Ltd with Kenry Wills and Co present a series of sheep sales in Katanning and Cranbrook. About 16 000 sheep offered at Katanning on Friday and Thursday sales at Cranbrook and Katanning markets. Elder Smith Co and partners announce three building blocks for sale in Katanning. special sale at Cranbrook for Mr Grey Warburton with over 1000 sheep yarded on Wednesday July 16.
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Dalgety and 70, Ltd
Kenry Wills and Co
Weedne
Kojonap Residents Honour Mr Simms At Rifle Club Event
A Kojonap district resident presentation is planned for Mr CGA Simms at the Rifle Club ball on Thursday to mark his services while living in the area. Simms has sold his hotel freehold to Mr Adair who will take possession on the 16th. An Italian named Giovann suffered a serious foot cut while timber cutting and was driven to Katanning Hospital by Mr W Jones. Nive ruin has Gallen will aid farmers in completing their cropping.
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CG. A. Simms
Rifle Club
Kojonap Distriot
Simms
Adair
Giovann
Katanning Hospital
W. Jones
Nive Ruin
Gallen
Also Mentioned on This Page
Richardson & CO
Are
the Western Australian Insurance Co
Edtanaing Stockh & Trading Co. Ltd
Bastwoods
Ion Comeni
Belfast
Ford
Dunlop
Commercial Union Assurance CO. Ltd
Katanning Stock & Trading Co. Ltd
Austral Terrace
Henry Wills: Co
Albany and Katanning
Albany
Overland
Henry Wills and CO
W. M. Baker
Gmail
Ekataining
S.P.Q.R
House of Value
Areare
J. F. Wanke
Australian Mutual Provident Society
the Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited
Commercial Union
ST. George's Terrace
George H Jamnston
Katanning Stock & Trading 60, Ltd
William Street
Port
W. H. Derry
Industrial Dept
F. W
J. J. H. Seaman
A. J. Watt
Austral Obrack
Katansina
H. Watts Wyppeon
Wagin
Waii
Hain
Doris Purkiss
IMS Leagner
Java
Argent Street
Katenuke Baptist Churcb
Lom
A. Hotter
M.A. Woodanilling
Cartmelhup
C. HJ
Warren
ARMY
Lower
Culhain
Escellent
J. A. Norrish
Mesers, Richardson and Co
Lewis Quartermaine
F. Quartermaine
Amherst-street Katanning
Cpl
Harry Byrne
H. Byrne
Olive-street Katanning
Soudon
Pte
W. J. Cobb
W. J. Cobb, Formerly of Messrs. F. and
C. Piesse
Commonwealth Electoral Authorities
J. Mews
Albany Fire Brigade
Mount Lawley
North Perth
Welcome Home
Welcome Home Committee
E. Grover
Dayeins
Boy
Metropolitain
Commissioner of Public Health
Atkinson
Curmostin
Curposton
Melbourne
Cumpaton
Serum Institute
Cumpston
Board of Health
J. Hewson
Same
Kojonap
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