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Newspaper
Bowen Independent
Location
Bowen, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 10, 1922
Page
3
Townsville reports a waterworks issue as Engineer Roberts notes a five year lag in completing underground wells feeding the city. A pump-contact fault risks daily losses of millions of gallons of water, prompting mayoral action to press the matter forward.
Mr Hughes met deputations and addressed two meetings in Brisbane. He was entertained at a function by the Premier and State Ministers. He responded to a deputation seeking amendment of the Navigation Act to permit overscan Vowels to carry interstate passengers on the coast. The act was framed to support Australian mercantile marine, but the government would not aid shipping companies lacking vessels to handle passenger traffic.
In Toombs Friday the circuit court condemned the jury system. Judge O Salivan criticized the jurors for verdicts he called false and prejudiced. He argued the system undermines respect for law and discourages crown officers and lawbreakers alike.
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Reports from Gympie indicate a record ore crush with 120 tons processed from North Phoenix mine yielding 8,400 ounces of gold valued around twelve thousand. The monitor notes this as the best return in forty years of mining in the area.
A report on the Queensland financial situation cites a past deficit near £465,000 and an estimated current shortfall around £500,000. The Premier and Treasurer were asked for their view on the likely outcome for the month, acknowledging possible changes in revenues and expenditures.
Two leading accountants will probe government contracts with Clyde Engineering Works for the supply of locomotives, forty of which are delivered. Workers were dismissed amid dispute, indignation meetings followed, and a tentative arrangement allows the company to continue while the inquiry proceeds.
Plain clothes detectives raided a Pitt Street hairdressing saloon and arrested Peter George Macdonald and four barbers after a dispute over charges. They were charged with conspiring to defraud amid long standing complaints of exorbitant prices for services. Police remanded the group for magistrate hearings.
Melbourne reports a Commonwealth teamship interest in trading with Germany. The note indicates ongoing discussions and potential cargo routes expanding postwar commerce.
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Mr F X Perroux announces arrival in Bowen to operate as a photographer revising portrait work and plans for enlargements with each dozen photos. He thanks local residents for kindness shown during his father Walter K Persons residence and will visit nearby districts by appointment. The notice also mentions stock enlargements and framing, and references shipping news about German ports and Australia trade developments.
Seventeen candidates in favor of the Treaty and seventeen opposed were elected unopposed in the Irish elections. A contest is set for the 20th in constituencies between Collins and De Valera panel members and forty seven other candidates, reflecting rare gestations of the community.
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London witnesses a repeat conference between Imperial Cabinet members and Trish Provisional Government delegates on the proposed Lristt Constitution. The talks focus on shaping the constitutional framework amid ongoing political negotiations.
A London publication cites a Sinn Fein document calling for a united Ireland and urging destruction of enemy wires and bridges. It reports calls by Cardinal Logue for strong men with birch rods to confront gunmen, warning of a generation of footpads and comparing to Belfast’s massacre.
A Tolaingtore message claims Lenin will die soon and that event would trigger an armed rebellion against the Soviet Government. The report notes many arrests and crowded prisons as leaders are sought.
Warned by barking dogs Pablo Quis eppe and his family left their Nic atresse home to search for marauders. The raiders retreated then Guise nyon advanced, was shot dead, and the robbers returned to the farm killing his wife and five children while looting the house.
In the matter of The Public Guardian Act of 1915 and in the matter of the described act filed in Queensland, Bowen town parish, Jind dowaribed act Bubdielon 20 of Moument 4 of Seation 64, with part cancelled, parcel No 12178, Volume and Folio qt.
The Port Denison Sailing Club notes show 36 members present including 15 women, discusses Verdita and Volmae prizes, disqualification of the boat Veseta for missing a number, and a forfeited deposit. It records a request for hall use by the Royal Society and Nymph boat housing, and a rule punishing any lady skipper who refuses her drawn boat. Lamp post provision and handicap committee disagreements are also reported.
The text records small town matters such as a new stock of accordions and organs at prior prices, a request to involve Mr A Elebb Senr in a handicap for small bats, and a move to place a beachside lap near the beach. It notes five men and one woman becoming club members, committee meetings at 7 eta, and a Bathday plan for July next amid other garbled entries.
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