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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 27, 1914
Page
1
In a partial notice a 145 page listing appears with entries about card sales or selections. The fragment mentions volumes and parts, with references to Australia and pasted wires. The readable text is highly garbled, showing intermittent numbers and phrases without clear context.
A Port Pirie Municipal employes union dispute centers on forcing carters to join the Wharf Union for work on the wharf. The council debates whether a non member should lose work, naming Mr W. Smith as the case, with motions rejected and the matter dropped. Also reported is the death of Captain Medland at Port Pirie West after a stroke and injury, noting his naval service and community ties.
An itemized notice discusses railway and travel facilities through Petersburg and Pirie with a renovated Gladstone Commercial Hotel offering Acetylene gas and first class dining. It lists monthly stock sales, subscriptions, offices, local counts, and postal rates, detailing public notices, holidays, and rates within the Commonwealth.
Railway time table details list arrival and departure times for various lines. Services from Port Pirie to Adelaide and other routes show daily and Sunday patterns with connections to Peterborough, Gladstone, and Terrowie. Some entries indicate exceptions on Sundays and holidays.
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