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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Leader
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 27, 1905
Page
3
The piece blends agricultural advice and frost damage to crops with political gossip about rail clothing contracts and coal supply. It cites a large land rush in Lockhart and Wagga districts, plus reform politicians promising land despite limited availability and questions over price and contract terms.
Three hundred young men applied to the Railway Commissioners for apprentice clerk positions in Sydney and forty sought a similar vacancy at Bathurst. Reformers are attempting to lure workers from England to swell the ranks of the unemployed.
Fragmented proceedings reveal fee disputes among lawyers led by Newton and Stith with Campbell as principal. Premier Carruthers faces opposition as Monaro quarrels over Sunday fire arts, while police raid another Sydney betting shop. Tattersall's sweeps defy law amid ministry backing.
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