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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 18, 1908
Page
2
The document lists a chaotic batch of reader names and addresses for a contest or notice page. Amid the jumbled OCR, numerous individuals and places appear, including schools, towns, and streets, with many unreadable fragments and repeated patterns.
Unclear OCR text lists multiple barrier events and times including 11 am 1.40 pm and 2 pm with names such as Dorcaart Reeve Southwell Bouthwell and Denve. No clear outcome or location. Entities include G A Reeve and Wands.
In England the Central Emigration Board aims to relocate socially failed Britons to Australia. Critics warn these so called reform efforts ignore Australia’s needs and risk importing unfit candidates. They argue Australia should rely on its own energetic population and avoid sending social drifts overseas.
The article argues for selective immigration to Australia, stressing active, industrious English migrants while denouncing English failures sent to Australia. It warns against admitting disreputable individuals to avoid burdening cities with hangers on and discouraging worthy future immigrants.
A deputation from the Farmers' Interstate Conference thanked Mr. Austin Chapman for liberalizing postal and telephonic services and endorsed penny postage. They cited 73,000 farmers using telephony weekly and urged a nationwide penny post era with daily weather and other notices. Chapman praised the work and predicted his successor Mauger would push the bills into law as penny postage revenue outpaced higher rates.
At the Local Lands Office the acting agent Mr Rancland sold town allotments with two exceptions at upset prices. Listings include Atkinson and Yarrow streets and Booth street with several lot allocations to Maxwell Hincksman and Woodger. A grazing and agriculture lease for 127 acres near Cooma to Goulburn was awarded to Maria S Colverwell for £40 1. A quake shock was felt at Gundagal on Saturday.
A special general meeting of Queanbeyan P and A Association members in the Council Chambers discussed the next show. With stock scarce due to grass shortage and dry weather, postponement to spring was debated but the motion to hold in autumn was carried, with dates set for late September or October consideration.
Queanbeyan faces Taraga in a rifle match at Barrack Flat range next Saturday with a 1 pm start. A dinner at Arandelson's Hotel precedes the event at 7 pm. The Talliges distance is 500 yards with seven shots per man.
Following are the lowest tenders for works at Braidwood rifle range and Talgandra public school. W. J. Poulton submits £1390 for additions and repairs to Gundaroo public school with seven tenders received. Erection of kitchen and wash-house at Talgandra and mantelet and mounds at Braidwood range are noted with Poulton as tenderer.
Wool clips from Burra Bigdoe Angel Royalta Bywong Gules Flat Kowew Riverview Reece and others sold yesterday through Winchcombe Carson and Co. wire reports list top prices for day. Notables include Hutton Armidale Cameron Wollombi Moffatt Uralla Menzies and Frvoen with scoured lots commanding high bids.
The piece analyzes the timber yard strike in Sydney with casual laborers earning about 30 to 35 pounds a week and employed only part of the year. It notes heavy industry shifts, widespread casual work, and weak protections under arbitration law while unions clash with employers over wages and job security.
Residents express dissatisfaction at delay in accepting lenders for fencing the Mall cemetery after a grant to the Hall Progress Association. Trustees favor wire netting but lack funds to proceed, prompting debate on fencing versus netting. Meanwhile Bungendore freezing works plan to start with limited capacity affecting local rabbit-rappers who will operate within the Bungendore district.
A chaotic transcript-like notice describes twelve thousand acres of waterlocked terrain at Barren Jack. It mentions Sydney Harker and various distorted names, alleging conspiracies and imitators tied to a controversy around an extract called MAMUINE SANDEL & HONS' BUCKTYPTE EXTRACT and a court-related outcome.
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