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Article : 98 wordsCr. Craig presented a petition, eigned by ratepayers of Victoria Park, praying that the Mayor hold a public meeting in that suburb to protest against the ...
Article : 88 wordsDonald Seacroft Freer, vicar of the Port Chalmers Anglican Church, pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting two boys, aged 10 and seven Years, and was ...
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Article : 80 wordsThe Young Australian League's band rendered Mozart's "Gloria" at the morning service at Notre Dame Cathedral, it being the first occasion a British band ...
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Article : 236 wordsMr. Alec McRae, of Woodbrook station, a few miles from Roebourne, writing to his wife, who is at present in Perth on a visit, refers at length to the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 17 Feb 1925, Page 7
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