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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 06, 1905
Page
20
Widespread wrecks with loss of life reported. Mon W H Suttor MLC dies at 71. September rainfall well below average. Hospital grounds to be netted. subsidy of 560 pounds unpaid. Wool traffic up on the railway. Gwen Williams found drowned at Hay lagoon. Bank and sovereigns totals noted for the deceased. Local ads and social notices punctuate the column.
The article advocates using copper sulphate to purify water, suggesting one pound per million gallons for large-scale use and a small domestic method of a three by three inch copper strip left in water for six to seven hours. It claims efficacy against typhoid and Lyphoid epidemics with minimal risk to humans.
The bill tightens the pension system by raising residential qualification to 35 years and extending the absence period to five years. It lowers income and property thresholds, raises naturalisation requirements, and sets pension at 26 pounds yearly with deductions. It empowers officials to investigate, requires banks to report, and channels payments through the Government Savings Bank.
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