THE Emu Plains and Bittern Race Club will hold their postponed race meeting on Tuesday next (weather permitting).
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S. S. PRICE, dentist, of Melbourne, will be at Garrood’s Prince of Wales Hotel this weekend, for the convenience of those who may wish to consult him.
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MR Allan W. Taylor, of the Frankston Motor Garage, has been appointed agent at Frankston for the Dunlop Tyre Co., and has in hand a good stock of all their motor accessories.
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THE secretary of the Frankston Football Club acknowledges with thanks the following donations to wards the club’s funds: Messrs C. Grant, W. J. Oates and Jacobs, 10s 6d each.
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SERGEANT Walter Fisher, who is reported wounded at the Dardanelles, previous to enlisting, lived at Frankston for some years, where his wife and family now reside. He is one of six brothers, all of whom are in the service of the King. Four of them are at the front, one is at Broadmeadows, and another is with the Heavy Artillery at the Heads. Mrs Fisher, the mother of the boys, resides at Footscray.
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MUNICAPILITIES which do not contribute directly to the funds of the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Fairfield will not in future be entitled to have patients treated free of charge at the institution. A regulation has been made under the Infectious Diseases Hospital Act, 1914, by the Governor in Council, fixing 1s per patient per day as the sum which the Fairfield Hospital authorities may recover from a non-contributing municipality in respect of each patient from its district received at the institution.
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A MEETING of the committee of the Frankston Football Club was held in the Mechanics’ Hall on Wednesday evening. Present – Cr Oates (vice- president), Messrs Kinnimont, Jackson, Young and C. Twining (hon. sec). The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Routine correspondence was read and received, and accounts amounting to £5 5s 4d were passed for payment. Mr Scoble was elected a member of the committee, and took his seat, on the motion of Mr Young, seconded by Mr Jackson. The secretary was instructed to write to Langwarrin club re payment of umpire’s fee for next Saturday, and the meeting closed.
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THE Consulting Engineer of the Frankston Gas Company, Mr V. U. Crowley, A.A.I.E.E., visited Somerville and Hastings on Friday and Saturday of last week in connection with the Frankston and District Electric Supply. Under the guidance of Messrs Watt and Keast, local councilors, he interviewed nearly the whole of the residents of these towns, and met with a good reception everywhere. Undertakings to take current as soon as available were given by householders to a most satisfactory extent. The other districts in the shire, where it is proposed to take supply lines, will be canvassed at an early date.
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MR F. W. Roper, of Somerville, has been nominated to act as Lay Representative of the parochial district of Westernport in the Synod of the Diocese of Melbourne. Failing the receipt of any further nominations Mr Roper will be duly elected. Nominations close on the 31st May, 1915. The Rev. F. E. Watts will be away from the district on Sundays, 30th May, 6th and 15th June, when he will exchange with Rev. G. A. M. Ceruthy, Rev. A. R. Mace and Rev. M. Griffeth, and will return on Friday, June 18th. During the absence of the Vicar the district will be in charge of Rev. A. J. Thompson, whose postal address is Somerville.
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FREDERICK Knox, of Pearcedale, was charged at the Melbourne County Court on the 19th inst; with the loss of a horse valued at £20, and alleged trespass and negligence. It appears that Knox, who is a horse breaker, residing in the same locality, proceeded to Jas. Burton’s paddock (the owner of the horse) in company with his brother and another man, and tried to catch the horse for the purpose of breaking it in, and while doing so the animal ran into a ti-tree pole in the fence and impaled himself. The judge said he could not see any evidence of negligence. No doubt Burton wanted the horse broken in and Knox came to get it. He seems to have done nothing improper or unusual, and there was no negligence on his part. A verdict was given for defendant, with costs, to be taxed.
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A GREAT game was witnessed by a fair crowd at Langwarrin on Saturday last, when Langwarrin and Mornington met. A good solid game was played which ended in anything but a sports manlike manner on the part of the visitors. When our goal umpires came to tally up (to our amazement) our goal umpire being closely interested, had forgotten to put down two points which Langwarrin had scored in the last few moments, and the visitors’ goal umpire seeing this turned away and was seen deliberately to turn away and destroy his official score card and then came forward and said he had it snatched from him. Well this is not clean sport, but in all confidence we uphold ourselves the winners by 2 points, being backed up by a majority of Mornington’s supporters, by male and female. The game was fast and full of hard knocks from start to finish, and the work of the umpire was made very hard through the bad state of the ground in general.
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EMPIRE Day was celebrated at Frankston on Monday, 24th May, very quietly. If it had not been that several of the townspeople displayed their flags, the day would hardly have been remembered. No doubt this can be accounted for by the war taking a paramount place in the minds of the people at present, and it being brought more forcibly before their minds as each day fresh lists of dead and wounded are published in the press.
The children at the State school at Frankston were given interesting addresses in the morning by Rev. R. Jackson, Mr Adams and Mr W. W. Richardson. Mr E. M. McComb (member of the school board) was also present. The afternoon was devoted to games and amusements in the school grounds.
In the evening a picture show by Mr Alex Gunn (of Melbourne) was given in the Mechanics’ Hall, which was well attended. A small charge was made for admittance, and the surplus over expenses will be given to the Belgian fund.
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THE local branch of the Red Cross Society is proving themselves to be a live and enthusiastic body. The secretary, Mrs E. P. Mair, has just purchased £3 worth of flannel from the Lady Mayoress, and has distributed it among the ladies to be worked up into garments for the soldiers. As the result of the canvas, a large number of residents have become members of the society, and are paying their subscriptions by monthly installments. On Wednesday next a social will be held in the hall in aid of the fund, when a thoroughly enjoyable evening is guaranteed. The committee of management is making excellent arrangements as regards music and refreshments, and a bumper house should result.
From the pages of the Mornington Standard, 29 May, 1915