Postal Rates and Fees Items Not Clear
Fragmentary OCR text mentions postal rates and fees with unclear phrases about postage, intervals, and established charges. No clear names, dates, or places are identifiable to form concrete facts or outcomes.
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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 21, 1916
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text mentions postal rates and fees with unclear phrases about postage, intervals, and established charges. No clear names, dates, or places are identifiable to form concrete facts or outcomes.
The Port Pirie Ladies Benevolent Society held its April 11 meeting with good attendance. Officers were reappointed, including President Mrs G J Middleton and Secretary Treasurer Mrs M M McEwen, as committees and district visitors were listed and work planned to resume April 25 with welcome of new members. The article recalls the society’s 1894 foundation during a Christmas relief drive and outlines ongoing aid to distressed women and children, meals, clothing, groceries, and hospital and convalescent support, noting retirements and past annual events with lingering need in the town.
The society reports income from yeast sources, subscriptions, tea money, bank interest, racing club telefractione, loan refunds, donations, and £77/6 from the Excelsior band. Expenditures total £39 10/7 with receipts £30 2/2 and a £9 8/5 yearly deficit. The group plans fundraising next year while praising help from the band and various donors. membership stands at twenty active members.
A tribute from Mr Peter Dawson appears in unclear text. the fragment references a person named Peter Darna and mentions a famous singer with unclear context. Further readable details are not available in the fragment.
The notice lists daily hours for a resting room from 9 am and details about assorted offices, shipments, and rail departures from Gladstone to Port Pirie and Petersburg. It includes names like Mr Odgers and Bagot Shakes & Lewis, with weekly and monthly event mentions and a canceled midnight Adelaide train.
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