Ugly Men's Association

[1] Previously, a Mrs Alicia Pell had organised an "Uglie Man" competition to raise funds for the Red Cross in Kalgoorlie.

The football club's work developed into a successful grassroots organisation with the first branch opening in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley and focusing on supporting cases of hardship caused by war.

A selection of rides (including roller coasters, toboggans and chair-a-planes) and live shows by circus performers and illusionists kept guests entertained well into the evening.

Situated at the foot of William-street, and forming one of the few blots on the picturesque riverfront of Perth...White City, also, contains a large open-air -dance floor on which youths, with their hats on their heads, perform intricate and sometimes immodest, steps with, young women whom, prob- ably they have never seen before...Since its inception, White City has proved to be a magnet, for larrikins and loafers, who, in various stages of intoxication, make for its gates when the hotels are closed.

"[7]Caving to mounting public pressure, the Western Australian government ordered the closure of White City in 1929, effectively bringing an end to the Ugly Men's reign over Perth's social scene.

Part of an Ugly Men's Association newspaper advertisement published in the Daily News on 16 February 1917
Members of the Ugly Men's Association building an extension to a house owned by a WW1 prisoner of war in North Perth in about 1919
Entrance to Uglieland fairground, Fremantle lit up at night
Article from The Argus , 28 November 1923