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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 14, 1907
Page
7
The column lists items of interest from Peak Hill and surrounding towns including licensing court dates, hospital milk tenders, probate valuations, show prize plans, repatriation of Australiana, and local social events. It notes theatre and concert plans, traveling showmen, condemnations, football prospects, and policing enrollments, all reflecting a bustling regional telegram of playful commerce and civic life.
Alectown MEMS Omancuan notes a weather brief and minor price slump in rabbits. Local cemetery still clothed woods. A large area is under crop this year. J F Nicholas tops Howard subscription list with a guinea. Bishop Dunne and Rev Campion pass through Boca en route elsewhere. Mr W Mead seeks road mining rights south of Alecown but needs council permission. Whooping cough affects children. rabbits resist baits and quince jam loses appeal. Alectown gains direct representation on Molong P P Board via W T Job. A church service and Coffee Supper for the Stipend Fund set for Wednesday 19th at 7:30 in aid of funds. Peak Till chair aids. admission one shilling.
The Commons Trustees met Monday evening with Morrie Glasheen Mares Frazer Foulkes and Tho Ranger J Frazer present. Ranger Frazer resigned effective 30th instant and an advertisement for a new ranger was agreed. A fee increase for commonage was discussed as suggested by Trustee Bakes. A letter from the Municipal Association of New South Wales dated June 4 1907 defines commoners as residents or cultivators within the commons boundaries.
The passage recalls early wheeled carriages in France in 1559 and the first English newspaper in 1588. It also mentions a 30 acre Gundagai farm with 54 on Jones Creek yielding 2000 bushels of corn from 14 acres and 20 tons of lucerne from 3 acres, predicting £300 revenue this year. A Dr Sheldon coughs remedy is advertised for sale by Thos Hand Peak Hill.
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