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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 23, 1906
Page
4
The Methodist Conference notes fewer Sunday School participants due to parental work, play, sport on Saturdays, and Sunday picnics. It argues neglect at home pressures religious instruction to fill the gap, yet religious passion often yields to secular gains. The piece questions collective denominational responsibility and hoped remedies.
Mr Ashton critiques Loot methods for settler selection arguing against ballot sweep and departmental officer choices. He contrasts auction room sales as imperfect but preferable to political allocation and warns of favoritism and corruption from noncommercial methods.
A fragment discusses rushing into a wire-netting wave and warns that forging weapons could harm settlement. It notes the burden of summonses forcing Ivan to raise hundreds of pounds, threatening those who fail to pay.
The St Patrick’s Day event Monday night drew a large audience with £168 4s 6d at the door. The Myalls Peak Hill Band played free, and several named performers joined, while disruption at the rear halted part of the program. After the concert a social raised £4 17s 8d, with Mr Laing adding the music and Mr R J Baker thanking helpers.
A Farwan correspondent notes district farmers disagree on 36x1x17 rabbit netting. Mr R Clifton’s 600 acre Trundle farm uses this netting on boundary fences and reports successful reduction of rabbits during drought 1902.
A Forbes district resident, W T Woolley, died after an accident while mixing phosphorus and pollard for rabbit poisoning. The wife heard his cry, found him with a burning leg, extinguished the flames, and then discovered a burning phosphorus tin. He died four days later from the injuries.
The piece surveys NSW state politics with references to upcoming elections Queanbeyan April 7 and MPs like Reid Holman Crick Lyne McDonald Burns Clynes and Parkes. It mocks debates socialists railway pledges and a Parliament seen as pay punctual yet lacking statesmanlike resolve.
The article reviews fresh stock and bargains at David Jones and Co with daily arrivals of new fashions. It highlights napkins damask cambric and duchesse fabrics, discounted prices on lace and drapery, and Panama hats reduced from 14/6 to 19/8, urging early catalog requests to secure selections.
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