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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 20, 1930
Page
2
West Australia savings institution advertises four percent interest on initial deposits up to 500 and increases to 1000 thereafter. It promises to invest funds to develop the area and invites locals to save with the West Australia Savings Institution. Office ads note location near Herald Office in Toodyay with electric light and contact details.
Clarke and Doig Limited is listed as auctioneers in Toodyay with the company name shown in full. The brief record notes the firm’s business identity and location.
Toodyay Road Board gives notice that ad licenses under the act for the year ending June 30 1931 become due July 1 1930 at the Board site Stirling Terrace Toodyay. Licenses cover motor cars trucks and motorcycles carriers passenger vehicles and must be obtained by July 31 1930 with inspection of vehicles and weight declarations for taxed loads. Regulations enforcement begins June 11 1929 with safety fittings lamps bells brakes and tyre width rules. Identification tablets for horse drawn vehicles for 1930 1931 specify red on black for private carts and red on black for hire or reward, blue and yellow to return next year. Cart tablets available at Board Office.
Notice warns licenses for dogs due July 1 1990 with a 21 day period to effect the license. It requires sterilization and states defaulting owners will be prosecuted without further notice. Issued by JOSEPH A. WROTH Secretary.
H E Ding, dentist, will visit sources every alternate Sunday at the Newcastle Hotel Nort. Hours extend to 3 a.m. Sunday, June 29. Ad.
The article details ongoing district efforts supported by Parliament members to advance local projects. It notes hoped speeches by Mr. Lee Steere and others, aims to press for Clackline Via Road completion, and Thorn's pledge to review closer settlement and unemployment relief options while stressing Toodyay's potential and investments, including repurchased estates turning profits.
At a Toodyay Traders Association meeting Mr L Thorn MLA heard a push for a Close Settlement Scheme with Deepdale as a possible site. He urged ministerial action to back a dairying industry, faster rail transport for butter fats, and a daybreak coach service between Bolgart and Perth to move perishables.
The Parents and Citizens' Association met at the School on June 17 with Mr A G Dawson in the chair. The annual balance sheet showed a credit a little over £16. W A Hodgkinson was elected President and H T Lee as Vice President, replacing departed members. A grania phone for the school and funds for pictures were approved. The School Board considered four tenders for Norman's Area Bus Driving Contract. decision postponed pending detailed conveyance particulars from bidders. Britt and Walton to report to the Education Department.
The Victoria Plains Road Board met at Calingiri to review many items including East West Cavani Road work, fencing on Seddons property, Wongin Calingiri road clearing, and a disputed private paddock access case involving Mr Tait and Mr Pratt. Debates covered rail approaches, drainage faults, a level crossing plan, and vermin control measures with inspector actions and pending notices.
In voluntary effort over five years the Young Australia League has encouraged local and overseas boys to take up farming. They report several experienced labours aged 17 to 20 are available for employment and urge farmers to contact the Bay Settler's Department at Sheffield House in Perth for arrangements.
An 19th century notice promotes Woods' Great Peppermint Cure as a remedy for coughs colds and flu like ailments. The advertisement claims quick relief and notes its availability from local retailers and apothecaries.
A playful if tangential notice riffs on a Jungle Hockey Club featuring all female players. The narrator teases the idea of sport meeting romance, warns of public uproar and crime over equipment purchases, and invites readers to witness the spectacle at sunset for value and entertainment.
The Rector's daughter Bantie married Leslie Johnson of Corrigin on Tuesday June 17 at St Stephen's Church of England in Toodyay. The bride entered with Mr P W Williams as her escort, wore Cream Sera Taffeta with a lace veil and blue sash, and was honoured by bridesmaids Maida Parentdem Patania and others. reception followed at the Rectory with gifts on display. The bride later left by car in a beige ensemble with red trim. A separate note records Miss O Halloran’s farewell from Toodyay State School and a teachers’ gift.
On Thursday June 19 Mrs Bate man of West Toodyay rode home in a sulky when the horse shied and she fell into the road. She was taken to Toodyay Hospital with inward injuries. A cyclist approached from the opposite direction. the exact cause of the shying is unclear.
Casual ads urged with payment upfront at four shillings per inch. The old cage-ad forwarding system ends. new policy requires cash with booking, reducing bookkeeping for small adverts.
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