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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 23, 1916
Page
2
Public notice from the Toodyay Road Board requires payment of license fees for bicycles motor cars and other vehicles and dogs under the Cart and Dog Acts. Licensing officers may demand statutory declarations and a stamping fee. defaults face prosecution.
Tenders invited for clearing 60 chains of Norman-Rejoording Siding Road No 5809 near Toodyay. Works include 33 ft wide roadway, root and stump removal to at least one inch below surface, clearing scrub and burning timber, with completion by 20 March 1917. Deposit required. application to B G inavou. Not bound to accept lowest tender.
State Commissioner of Taxation Edgar T Owen announces due date February 1 1817 for land and income tax returns. Under Secretary C A Munt notes cancellation of the scheduled traffic on the 29th instant.
Morning Prayer at 9 am and Evening Prayer at 7 30 pm announced for St Stephen's. Local church service times listed for weekday and weekend observances. Individual parish details indicate service cadence and wooden pew seating.
The Taodyay Herald notes no issue next Saturday and extends season’s wishes. Mass at St John the Baptist Church Christmas morning, with change to the second Saturday monthly 10am. Wheat weighing by Megra C M Lukin & Co from Toodyay to Oalingeri. Tax returns due February 1 1917. Motor vehicle licensing and wage logs warned. Summer heat and townsfolk plan seaside trips. Weekly thermometer readings listed. War Munitions Supply Company reports audited balance sheet.
The meeting charted races including Maiden £8, First and Second Class Plates £16, Giloway 14.3 £6, Trial £8, Jennacubbine Handicap £15 for 1 mile 3 chains, and a Farewell Handicap £8 for 7 furlongs. Tenders call for land work at Norman B Joording Siding with January 1917. Mentions new sea winds at Bulgart Wyening Calvarra Oslingari and notes progress of motion pictures in surgery presented by Dr J Wiliam Schapire at Bordhan University.
The Red Cross Society finished its final fortnightly meeting at Red Cross rooms in Thuraiay East with reduced attendance due to holidays. Afternoon tea was provided by Mrs J A Wroil and Miss McDermott. A letter from Mr A Lukin announced Mrs Harper of Guildford offered items to sell with half proceeds to Central Branch and half to Toodyay Branch. The group agreed to accept £40 and set a selling price of 23 6d. A parcel of clothing including two pajama sets and day shirts and two handkerchiefs was sent to the Central Branch for distribution.
Sir Arthur Pearson of St Dunstans London asks readers to donate to aid blinded soldiers. He notes nearly 300 training to bear blindness and 200 more arriving from hospitals, with 160 already taught to read and write and placed in suitable work. A large permanent fund is needed for supervision and recruitment.
About 80 people attended the Yugering State School prize distribution on Saturday evening the 16th. A short program featured songs and readings by Miss Dorothy Mofflin Miss Loreen White and others. Prizes were awarded to Mary O Dea for most rapid progress Maitland Waters for steady perseverance Monica ODea for care and neatness Davie Twine for diligence and mature study. Mary O Dea and Willie Ferguson received books for best girl and best boy. A commemorative book was presented to a staff member, and the evening ended with supper and God Save the King.
A fragmented health note warns that barb wire cuts require quiet handling and frequent bathing in a hot solution for twenty four hours. It prescribes arnica tincture, mercuric chloride caution, and a general wound oil blend with turpentine and eucalyptus. Emphasizes washing and careful measurement with a teaspoon.
In the Legislative Assembly debate on the Land Taxation Amendment Bill a half penny per pound tax on land value above 400 pounds was proposed for next year. The Premier and Prime Minister indicated a federal taxation conference would be convened in the new year to draft a joint State and Federal taxation scheme. The Prime Minister pledged cooperation with the proposed conference in the Federal House early next year.
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