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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 23, 1908
Page
12
The assembly lively with interruptions as Efiden spurs talk on wage board remuneration. Premier defends capital site compromise while rail truck shortages prompt questions on livestock and new wagons. Opposition claims unfair tactics. debate shifts to building frontage and local ordinance expectations.
A letter discusses immigration to Australia, criticizing optimistic league rhetoric and urging concrete information for farmers. It questions land availability, Crown land rules, tenures, soil, markets, rail access, rainfall, and the need for sound government action over vague appeals. It decries private immigration bodies and calls for practical, businesslike guidance.
Voice of the People letters discuss minimum frontages for suburban blocks. Alderian D. M. Cooper argues for council power to set frontages per district, opposing state-wide limits. Criticism targets building tyranny and calls for policy favoring the poor, with references to engine purchases and oversea imports.
In the last week of July, Strabane in Tyrone reports valuable pearl finds in the river and its three Foyle tributaries. A man sold a pearl to a local jeweller after about half an hour’s fishing, with several smaller pearls fetching varied sums. Amateurs also yielded fine pearls in this routine fishing trade.
Mr Frank Summers of Denham BrosRockhampton writes that after a severe influenza spell he was advised to take Chamberlains Cough Remedy and within days recovered enough to resume his travels. He attributes a complete cure to the medicine.
Mr Robert H Lalor laments truck and engine shortages hindering rail operations. He argues that without sufficient locomotives, extra trucks are useless. He criticizes the practice of teams sharing an engine and praises Eveleigh's potential to supply all needed locomotives with proper authority and resources.
The Bishop of Gippeland Dr Pain arrives in Sydney by express on Saturday to conduct confirmations for the Archbishop of Sydney. Also advertises Laxo-Tonic Pills a laxative and tonic and Woods Great Peppermint Cure for influenza and colds in the head priced at 6d and 2d respectively.
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