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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 30, 1908
Page
4
Local store announces a deep summer sale with wide discounts on damask cloths, table linens, lace curtains, sheeting, towels, and quilts. Prominent items include damask cloths, linen serviettes, bedcovers, table covers, calico prints, and Turkish towels priced well below regular value.
Readers in the North-west denounce the new railway timetable for harming populated districts and delaying market news while favoring outlying stations. Victorian notes criticize police speed enforcement, domain traffic, and public park use. Others urge hospital flower drives and debate the Saturday half-holiday impact on shopping and city life.
The Metropolitan Licensing Bench grants transfers of publicans licenses for Port Jackson in George Street North Sydney from Arthur E Sumerling to Michael Norris Market Hotel on Market Street Sydney from Charles Eadie to Andrew Henderson Moran's Hotel on Abercrombie Street Redfern from Clarence Dawes to Bridget Rutledge Surry Hills Hotel on Reservoir Street Sydney from Andrew P Heavey to Michael Rush.
Sydney Legislative Assembly addresses disparity between train and tram fares and hears about timetable issues west of Homebush. Discussion covers Crown Lands amendments, special conditional purchases, subdivision rules, settlement leases, and timber removal with royalties, ending with clause passage amid divisions.
The text records passage and forwarding to the Legislative Council for the Crown Lands Amendment Bill, its committee amendments, and updates on the Contagious Diseases Bill being renamed to Prisoners Detention Act, read a second time and amended in committee.
The Continental motorcycle reliability trial runs from Goulburn to Sydney covering 133 miles on King's Birthday. Entrants must submit by November 5, with fees and silencers required. Time penalties apply for late or early arrivals. secret controls use red flags. winners determined by fewest points.
At Burwood Court Julia Rattenbury was fined £3 1m default two months for indecent language in Queen's road Five Dock. References to Gostwycx Salisbury Terrible Vale Kentucky Rimbanda Balala Toryburn Lana Brusherove Stations appear garbled. Uralla district activity noted. Doctor Sheldon claims new discovery to prevent consumption.
The Royal Commission report presents forestry finances since 1887, detailing revenue of £570,717 and expenditure of £424,901 with a surplus. It estimates 7.5 percent of the state’s territory holds commercial timber and outlines hardwood and softwood stock, future yields, and proposed royalty increases for various timber products and species.
The commissioners propose transferring forest control from the Land Department, framing a Forestry Act, appointing three commissioners and a conservator, hiring inspectors, expanding field staff, revising salaries, and revoking about 2,378 acres of existing reserves while dedicating 7,138,624 acres and 518,910 acres for permanent forest purposes. They urge inspections, higher timber royalties, ten year export ban on ironbark and tallow wood, silvicultural thinning, grazing controls, converting waste to charcoal, planting exotic and indigenous trees, establishing plantations, protecting western growths, and using technical and agricultural colleges for forestry education. Also referenced are Laxo-Tonic Pills advertisement.
At the Tulsi mer mens banquet, Mr Waddell and Mr O Sullivan discussed defence. The New South Wales Treasurer lamented low patriotism among Australians, urged a stronger navy, and warned Eastern nations pose a threat while Britain needs a united imperial council backed by the navy.
The Australasian Society of Engineers schedules its biennial federal conference in Sydney starting November 6. Delegates will discuss raising death benefit for financial members from 5 to a maximum 15 after five years. Also on the agenda are piece work, its evils, and limiting membership to exclude those under a bonus system. An Adelaide branch proposes banning free passes or concessions for members employed in state works while on society business.
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