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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 16, 1907
Page
18
Premier on the wire netting duty warns the tariff will raise netting prices by forty to fifty percent, endangering farmers and rabbit control. Carruthers argues the policy could drive people off the land and hurts closer settlement while sugar growers receive a bonus.
Mr J T Slack reports strong growth for the Loyal Kincora Bathurst branch of the Manchester Unity Oddfellows 1 0 C F with Bathurst district lodges rising from 34 to 34 and membership from 1047 to 23000 and capital to £82177. Across New South Wales the Order totals 24000 members with accumulated capital of £423884.
OrrictAn returns supplied by stock inspectors show 57 percent of lambs marked. Government Statistician records 44,132,421 sheep in New South Wales on December 31, 1906. The state has added about five million sheep over three years despite withdrawals and losses, with spring lambing hoped to push year end numbers to at least 49,000,000, the highest since 1596.
A collection notes a shard of events: a Camperdown earthquake, population stats for Queensland, railways revenue and expenditure in South Australia, and Defence Department funding for cadet camps. It mentions a girl saving her baby brother from a fire at Outtrim, wool imports by Japan with Australia’s share, a boy burned after epileptic seizure in Parkes, and Christ Church Exhibition awards for New South Wales exhibitors. Also reports on a large farm sale in Parkes district, a Condobolin child’s death and an autopsy pending, and a second child’s sudden appendicitis death.
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