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Newspaper
Traralgon Record
Location
Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 18, 1902
Page
2
The advertisement lists numerous discounts on hats shirts and coats plus heavy reductions on boots shoes and Balmorals. Items include ALPINE HATS white shirts singlets and tweed trousers with dozens of sizes and sale prices in shillings and pence. Every pair of boots in the establishment is reduced for this sale.
A 25 year old Bechuanaland Rifles veteran died of typhoid fever at Matakang on 25 February while on service in South Africa. He was a grandson of Mr Whittaker senior and a nephew of Messrs Whittakers, a well-known local figure in the district. He had previously visited South Africa on a prior tour. The report notes local mining progress at Walhalla and Long Tunnel Extended, with several shifts planned to extract stone and payable gold.
A Friday evening meeting at Traralgon Mechanics’ Institute elected a new committee and discussed rule amendments. An objection over Mr Shiells’s subscription triggered the previous committee’s resignation. at this session Shiells was deemed eligible, though the secretary’s recordkeeping caused confusion.
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