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Newspaper
Coffs Harbour Advocate
Location
Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 05, 1910
Page
3
Opaque report details South Australia immigrant grants and labor market impacts. Observers note migrants report health, wages, and work opportunities as strong, with volunteers aiding arrival and integration. Local reports highlight abundant work and fair treatment, while notes reference a trade link to Africa and Marseilles.
The clipping records varied items: donations to the King Edward memorial in Malbourne totaling £16314. large financial figures from Australia and Britain, including railway worker strikes in England and sugar industry labor issues in Brooklyn New York. It notes a dredge work at Tweed Heads, a mining incident in Paparaa, drought concerns in Horminm Victoria, and a range of local incidents including a dog burying, a fatal fall on Coopers Shoot road, and a Chinese divorce and remarriage in Australia.
A parliamentary inquiry era in progress raising questions about appointment to a chairmanship of the Wover Soarde, pension eligibility for Chief Railway Commissioner Mr Oliver, travel and other expenses, and payments to members of the Decentralisation Commission. Also reported is a sleepwalker incident near Bendigo where a miner escaped death after falling from a train car and sustaining an arm injury.
The Royal Commission on decentralisation held hearings in multiple districts including Glen Inissidale and Port Ban. It outlined the commission’s purpose and the nature of evidence to be used in the inquiry. The commission plans to examine the Sout County districts and inland centers to guide railway decentralisation. The Aldermarda commission will continue with further evidentiary material for the inquiry.
A damaged report recalls the Altair of Marine incident near Macquarie Island. The crew endured weeks aboard a cutter after voyage delays and severe weather, living on scarce provisions and relying on avoided rescue due to ice and fog.
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