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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 01, 1905
Page
14
Government outlines measures to prevent and control summer bush fires. Premier's minute calls police enforcement of fire laws, circulars to mayors, landowners, and storekeepers, and asks use of wax less matches, wooden matches urged. Fire-breaks, grass fire extinguishers, beaters, and railway line burning planned.
Practical tips for preventing breakage of glass jars during canning and remedies for jammed fingers. Includes heating water and bread poultice, a stomach remedy with carbonate soda and lemon, and sanitizing new ironware with lemon rind boiled in water.
A reader to the Exeress argues iguanas do not prey on rabbits, noting no observed rabbit killings by iguanas in the bush. The writer cites post mortem findings of rabbits in iguana guts and suggests rabbits may be eaten after poisoning, asking others to respond.
A CORRESPONDENT notes that occupiers may shoot penny swine and goats under the Impounding Act but not geese turkeys or other fowls. The act does not cover fowls and it is unclear if a shooter is protected for poultry trespass. burial may be allowed to prevent nuisance.
William Grover Porre, a 45 year old labourer, shot himself in the Botanical Gardens Sydney. He left a dated note at 639 George Street November 15 1905 declaring indignation at social injustice and proposing Christian socialism as salvation. He expressed a desire to live without sin and said he sacrificed his body to save his soul.
Express invites secretaries of town and district clubs societies and public bodies to send authentic reports of meetings and local happenings. The Editor asks for assistance from readers and correspondents across centers to make the paper representative of the district.
A correspondent debunks the claim that placing a dead rabbit under fence openings stops trespassing. The writer says after many trials rabbits still enter through the same gaps, stepping over the carcass of their dead relative with no hesitation.
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