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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 10, 1907
Page
16
Empire Day on 24 May will be celebrated with juvenile sports at the Peak Hill Showground to aid the Hospital. Schoolchildren will march in procession led by local bands, with a well prepared programme of events. An evening social will follow at the Masonic Hall.
Nominated immigrants can bring friends and relatives from the Old Country under revised rules. Open berths cost £16, while agriculturists or domestic servants may travel for £6 and other workers for £8. State residents can obtain a passage certificate by paying at the Intelligence Department in Sydney. Full details and nomination forms available from Sydney.
A Far East crisis grows as Russia warns of inevitable conflict with Japan and China. Reports claim Japan arms, builds a railway to Mukden, and may seize Amur at Stretensk, while China reorganizes its army for potential war in Manchuria within a year or two.
Mrs Jessie Lomas of Gladstone Queensland recommends Chamberlain Cough Remedy for chronic bronchitis in her son. After 11 years of illness he improved before finishing one bottle and was cured after four bottles, now healthy. Available through A W Taylor Co Peak Hill and J W Lees Tomingley.
Brevities note job ads for a cook and laundress at the Hospital with applications to the Matron. A May show on the 29th and 30th with entries due by the 22nd. Various local matters include hospital instrument case selection, rabbit pest notes, cricket premiership at Forbes, and a Peak Hill hospital cheque mystery.
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