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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 08, 1903
Page
3
A fragmented OCR item mentions life, schools, roads, and local names. The garbled text references a split or division, possible notes about events at specific places and dates. Entities are unclear due to damage, but hints of local places and institutions appear.
Matron Patterson resigns from the local hospital after years of capable service. The nurse has given utmost satisfaction and the committee will face difficulty replacing her with a equally qualified successor.She departs to enter the bonds of matrimony and well wishes follow for health happiness and prosperity.
The Hospital Committee met in the Council Chamber on Tuesday afternoon with President Gideon presiding. Minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed. Correspondence from Junior Minstrola Parkes offered an entertainment at Penk Till for hospital funds and the secretary’s acceptance was endorsed. Visiting Committee reported satisfaction with hospital conditions. April medical officer's report showed 2 admissions, 4 discharges, 1 remaining at month end, and outdoor patients treated. A hand-ambulance was requested. recommendation to sow lucerne pasture to be carried out by Messrs Davey and Wynne. The disputed Jackson & Jackson item was postponed again. Monthly accounts of £27 2s 6d approved. Committees assigned: Visiting Fitzgerald and Davey. Finance Schmidt and Milan. Works Freeman and Oldham. Doorkeepers for the concert: Frazer and Farquharson to act. committee to oversee details.
A special council session at the council chambers approved the provisional receipts and expenditures for the coming year. The council set rate reductions on all ratable properties, scheduled appeals to July, and authorized rate notices and sealing. Officials authorized included Mayor Gibson and Aldermen Keamy, Oxley, Davey, Swain with clerk Marne Wynne.
The gazette reports cancellation of several gold lences for non fulfilment of labor conditions in Narromine and Kennedy parishes with areas and owners named. It announces conditional purchase areas in Narromine Parish Burra ding, and a June sale of improvement leases at Condobolin Burrawang Leasehold and in Dubbo Turamungamine with total acreages and prices per acre.
A reader نامه from A J Fixrouin NZ 239d April 190% criticizes government appraiser Grimmett for omitting farm costs like fencing, netting, and sheds in wheat cost claims. The letter argues such omissions inflate ground rents and depress land values, urging fuller accounting and vigorous public scrutiny.
A letter from Brace Hall in the Butter Peak region critiques an earlier correspondent’s view on old age pensions. The writer questions the insinuation that pensioners are paupers, citing a noted elder who contributed to the state and raised many children, and arguing the state's work capacity unit set at 85 complicates judging natives or others. The exchange reflects local tensions over pension policy and dignity of recipients.
A reader letter responds to Mr. W P Foulkes and the pension debate, arguing that many pensioners are long-established natives or settlers with deep country roots. The writer defends government contracts and pension terms, critiques Foulkes’s use of “paupers,” and urges rational discussion, endorsing Bruce Fallas’s appeal for open-minded debate.
Timber for the Bogan Weir at Dandaloo lies on site though work is held up by a freak river interruption after nearly three inches of rain from Wednesday to Sunday. Weather now cold and dull with roads nearly impassable. Mail services facing expiries. meeting at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday the 22nd heard from MP and doctors.
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