The contract for the construction of the station building was awarded in 1889 for £1809/8/11.
He was appointed as West Adelaide Captain-Coach in 1950 by the club committee, but that committee was ousted and the new leaders installed Jack Broadstock into the position instead, with the club paying Faehse the sum of A£60 for his trouble.
The council spent A£5000 to bring the ground up to standard for WAFL level football in 1925, including the dumping of rubbish around the perimeter to create the sloping banks and the construction of a grandstand, as a result of Claremont-Cottesloe’s admittance to the “A” Grade of the West Australian Football League competition for the 1926 season.
The total value of the 2,700 ounces of gold and bank-notes taken was estimated at £14,000 (approximately A$12.5 million in 2012 terms).
The first sale of township subdivision was in 1913 at prices ranging from 15 to 30 pounds.
With support from his mother he purchased his first aircraft, an Auster Aiglet Trainer for 2,500 pounds.
The house and surrounding land was first purchased by Lindsay and his wife, Rose, in 1913 for 500 pounds from Francis Foy who built the property in 1900 as a half-way house.
On 29 August 1906, a contract was let for refreshment rooms to be constructed at Pinkenba station, at a cost of £318.
The Award was established in 1961 as a testamentary trust by Florence Kate Geach, sister of Australian painter Portia Geach, with an initial endowment of 12,000 Australian pounds.
In the height of the Great Depression Snell could earn up to A£10 per game and the same in wages playing in the Apple Isle.
Modified Front End was an extremely cost effective improvement given that it allowed the VR to defer new locomotive construction through improvements to existing locomotives that at the time cost just £140 ($280) per locomotive.
During the early 1950s, Victorian Railways embarked on a massive upgrading of its ageing locomotive fleet as part of 'Operation Phoenix', an £80 million program to rebuild a network badly run down by years of Depression-era underinvestment and wartime overutilisation.
On 12 June 1936 West Australian Airways was purchased by Adelaide Airways for £25,000 and in July that year became part of Australian National Airways.
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The Act appropriated A£30 million as the estimated cost of construction of the dam.