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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 30, 1906
Page
6
Ma A Hats of Goobang explains a simple technique for starting tomatoes and other delicate plants. He uses double jam tins heated to seal joints then filled with soil and sheltered until hardening off. After frost danger passes the pots are moved outdoors and tins removed to allow rapid growth.
NSW and Queensland governments advertise for thousands of miles of rabbit proof wire netting amid tight supply. English and continental works report full orders through mid 1907, likely pushing prices higher. Immediate bookings advised with Noyes Bros or Gibson Bros for delivery 12 to 18 months hence.
The Lands Commission examined 260 individuals as witnesses across 92 days, totaling 543 separate examinations due to repeated recalls. Edward Mcfarlane spoke 32 times, Speight 22 times, Peter Closa 14 times, the Premier and Crick Act eight times, and W N Willin six times. The evidence spans 25 970 questions and answers across 1 134 pages, about a million and a quarter words.
Fragmentary marketable prose condemns a dyspeptic husband whose cruelty blinds him to his faults. A satiric shift promotes a phantom cure and a dubious suppressor of strain, ending with a misprinted sales line for a digestive product.
A pamphlet by Hon. James Ashton Minister for Lands explains the amended Crown Lands Act focusing on conditional purchase leases and related regulations and forms. The document outlines key provisions and how they apply to tenure changes under the new act.
The new Shires Act fixes capital value of leasehold at 20 times annual rent and taxes this value. With rent of 2d per acre per year, capital value becomes 38 id per acre and a tax of 1d in the pound would levy 1d for every 6 sores as the Shire tax.
Tax following tenders for forage at listed police stations have been accepted. Names include Peak Hill Thomas Hand. Tomingley Aledown Wright Heaton Co. Narromine Trangie J O Hasler. Trundle Todd wring Obley W D Gibson Parkes Wright Heaton Co. Dubbo O Areb Engew A Hosie Bogan Gate B Williams.
A collage of short items notes 189 lawyers in the House of Commons, fines for unlicensed carriage, local dairying plans, numerous Divorce Court cases, a Duke of Wellington item, a butter market firsts, a large monthly payroll, and Cadbury profits. It mentions a 17 year old serving law, venue restrictions on alcohol, a Wellington banana eating contest, and Queensland Premier Kidston’s past stance. It also cites patent medicines, a Mexico gold find linked to chickens, and land speculation involving Albert Palow’s farm.
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