Campaign to Eradicate Mosquitoes in Cootamundra
An editorial urges year round mosquito control in Cootamundra after Arthur Bragg offers 100 pounds to the town to fund a sustained campaign. It notes past failures, compares to rabbit controls, and calls for health inspectors to compel backyard and tank inspections with community cooperation to rid the town of mosquitoes.
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Cootamundra
Arthur Bragg
Iliindgrove
Campain
Thorougly
Grezier
Bragg
Council
Aborigines Liquor Rule Highlights New Act Penalty
The piece notes an amendment to the Aborigines Protection Act making it an offence to sell methylated spirits to aborigines with heavy penalties. It also reports on local notices including missing man cases and various community items.
Erosion Menace Surpasses Guns in Australia Warned by Sir Frederick
Sunday reports Sir Frederick McMaster, owner of Dalkeith, warning that soil erosion threatens Australia more than external foes. He supports the forthcoming Soil Conservation Bill and cites two paddocks to show overstocking causes erosion, one bare after years of rain and the other healthy and productive after rest.
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Adelaide
Cassilis
Australie
Sydney
Wickeond
Frederick McMaster
Dalkeith
Australia
Frederick
Ostrich to Race Trotter at Sydney Sports Ground
A Mudgee ostrich named Flying Feathers will race a local trotter from Mudgee at the Sydney Sports Ground on Sunday June 26. This marks Sydney’s first ostrich racing event with the bird and horse harnessed in trotting gigs over a mile to five miles. Owner names are Messrs. Eric McRae and Oscar Wilkins with the opponent trotters Neurea Lass or October Boy.
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Mudgee
Sydney Sports Ground
Sydney
Flying Feathers
Messrs
Eric McRae
Oscar Wilkins
Messrs. McRae and Wilkins
Ostrich challenge nets betting interest in Derby talk
If Flying Feathers wins the own era will wager 60 or 100 pounds that he can beat any city trotter including Lawn Derby over any distance. The ostrich is about six years old. Harold Chant, noted Mascot trainer, said he would back one of his horses against the ostrich.
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Flying Feathers
Harold Chant
A.msp
Young Woman Killed in Car Crash at Petrol Station
Mrs Joyce Glover of Kogarah, wife of Arthur Codby Glover who faced forging a marriage certificate case, died after a motor crash that struck a petrol station Saturday night. The report notes her evidence at the Quarter Sessions and the defendants bound over for four years.
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Joyce Glover
Kogarah
Arthur Codby Glover
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