Parkes and New South Wales Notes Amid Diverse Items
A collage of 1900s items covers studies and statistics from Australia and Britain, including literacy in Spain, magnesite shipments from Fifield to Trundle, grasshopper damage in Parkes, and butter consumption in Britain. It notes underground Melbourne lines, a £500,000 cost scheme, and a pageant in Newlyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ewing
Defence
Spain
Mouars
Fifield
Trundle
Parkes Common
Flindera River
Queensland
Great Britain
Independent Labour Party
England
Morooway
Melbourne
Cornwall
Newlyn
Perkin Warbeck
Hoxton
London
Aule
Thomas Edison
Marconi
Atlantic
New South Wales
Bureau of Btatiation
New South Wales Railway Pi
Pige
Parkes
Prevent
Boome
Wagga
W.A
Trameaga
New Palace Emporium Fashion Portfolio Offered
The New Palace Emporium promotes its Spring and Summer Fashion Portfolio showing the season's creations. Anthony Horderns' famed low prices claim daily service to 30 000 town customers and widespread national supply. Post free patterns and price lists on application.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anthony Horderns
Grasshopper Plague Ravages Australian Wheat Belt
The drought and grasshopper plague dominate the country as swarms invade shops and homes and delay railway progress. Trains run slow while rails become greasy from crushed bodies. Wheat is being cut for hay in much of the Dubbo-Wellington district to salvage anything amid the drought and pest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jarramine
Dubbo-Wellington
Wheat crop may fail in New South Wales this season
An unusually dry season threatens wheat failure across New South Wales. Without timely rain before November the state may yield as low as three bushels per acre, with even the best rains unlikely to bring national production to needed levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New South Waite
Nocturnal Forage and Scent Clues in Farm Animals
The passage notes that horses cattle and sheep rely less on sight and more on smell and hearing. It mentions a ewe sniffing a patch of dark collar markings and an owl-like animal investigating its own bee. The text is fragmented and unclear in places.
Local Water Works Handed to Turon Shire Council
The Local Government Act is invoked as water supply assets at Bet wih ta constanly developag Act are transferred to Turon Shire Council. The Crown built the dam reticulation and workshop years ago, but the project has been unprofitable and now may be compulsorily imposed under evolving reforms. Homes along the supply line gain management by the Council under firm legal oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tax Bunny Corner
Turon
Topal
Hemlock deaths prompt warning description in Orange
Two children died in Orange from chewing hemlock called wild sarrot. Alderman Flanagan urged circulating a plant description in the Public Instruction Gazetter to warn children. A similar fatality was reported from Victoria as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orange
Deent of Public Instruction
Alderman Flanagan
Public Instruction
Victoria
Also Mentioned on This Page
Liexten
Lyndon Wright
Caswell Street
Peak Hill
Mulout
A. Stewart & CO
Court Street
ARESE
A. Stewart & Co., Parkes
F.C. Dawes
Tomingley
Western Queen Flour - Mills
Dalton Street
McGee & Co
Martin O’brien
Sydney
J. A. Cousens
Blacksmith & Wheelwright
South
Powk Hill
Ison
A. M. Paton
R. J. Parker
Peak Till
Noah Canridge Chub Hoth
Anthony Hordern & Sons
New Palace Emporium
Brickfield Hill
A. J. Matthews Elires
E. Dunn
A. J. Matthews
Carcass Butcher
Vedersignd
E. J. H. Farey
General Carrier, Peak Hill, McPhail & Tomin
uTroesaszmingley
T. G. McFarland
Rai Sxanow
Distefet Tiet
Bedawin
J. D. Cox
Ata
Ali
Farl Gree Hiatal
Averley
Aly
Mama
Seer
Theorum
Lwp
Imp. Vuethor Pedygn
Umbra
Hemlock
New Zealand
Australia
KL. McBean
Duntroon
Tucker
Chamberlain
Lymings Co
Poke Hill
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