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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 07, 1906
Page
4
Aroer notes penalties of £25 for breaches on polling day including vote solicitation inside or at the entrance of booths. Prohibited acts cover pressing for votes, inducing electors to vote for or against a candidate, or to abstain from voting.
A critical outline of Liberal policy under Mr Reid detailing plans to end secret caucus and defeat Deakin allies, pursue fiscal peace, replace bookkeeping clauses, sustain Braddon clauses, create a national old age system, grant unconditional preference to the country, expand volunteer forces and cadet training, promote white agricultural immigration, establish a Federal Agricultural Department, advertise natural resources, settle New Guinea, survey Western Australia, repeal union label, offer rural bounties, develop the Northern Territory, favor wage boards over compulsory arbitration, and resist state control that harms private enterprise and industrial freedom.
Under the Shire's Act workers in the district were given a month's notice that their road maintenance services will not be required as all road work falls under Shire Councils. Many may be rehired by the Shire Council and will likely receive first chance under the new order.
The piece laments a long hot summer in Mudgee with 9 pitiless tropical sun, rising mosquitoes and swarms of flies. It contrasts red hot sirrocos by day and a silent night as heartbroken men endure burdens and failed struggles.
Onck reports earning about £6000 for solicitor work while a New Zealand gold purchase features in a brief. Bonningtons Irish Moss is praised as a pleasant remedy. Robert Power, killed at Forbes last week, is revealed as the son of a London rector who withholds relatives’ addresses. Stock Inspector Dulhunty notes a flourishing district and optimism for 1906 for farmers.
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