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Fragmentary OCR text lists names and phrases without coherent context or events. Unable to identify people, places, dates, or a discernible news item for a proper summary.
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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 09, 1916
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text lists names and phrases without coherent context or events. Unable to identify people, places, dates, or a discernible news item for a proper summary.
A letter to the Express argues for adopting proportional representation in New South Wales as a superior electorial method. The writer urges Parliament to implement a transferable vote system, claiming it would better reflect voter preferences, reduce party strictures, and preserve fair representation without radical changes to boundaries. The piece references historical context, calls for constitutional reform, and cites NSW Proportional Representation Society activity.
General items note German child goods and a grown rabbit fetching 238 in northern Germany. The Gazette de Holland reports a boy selling two Titters of young rabbit with their mothers for 200 marks. A Scone Advocate copy shows a Scone Cooperative Dairy Co. statement for 25 cows owned by Mr P. J. Head with a nett return of £57 18s 6d for last month, about £2 5s per head. Maitland Licensing Court suspended licenses for three years for William Beckoolan and John Thomson for liquor offences. A solicitor in Johannesburg advertises for Mrs Davie Charles Davies, sister of Lt. Col. Richard Bernard Poole, who requests £8,090 for a claim of farms and houses.
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