Australian bush yarns and coach drivers legends recollected
A narrator recalls old Cobb and Co drivers and bush yarns from Victoria and beyond. He shares tall tales of whale-towing bullock teams, fallen trees turned inns, and the vivid country life along dusty tracks. Names like Mick Dougherty, Jack Galvin, Ned Strahan appear in reminiscences of the old coach route era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cobb and Co
Red Road
Yellow Road
Billy
Jimmy
Figh
Mark Twain
Mick Dougherty
Victoria
Gee Smiler
Op Smoker
Roger
Australia
Ambler
Ginger
Swampy
Point Danver
Gabo Island
Tumbarumba
Bago
Taradale
Fallen Tree
Houtel
Jack Galvin
Ned
Jack
Fallen Tree Hotel
Spot It Competition Window Challenge Opens This Saturday
The Times outlines a Spot It competition in local shop windows from Saturday with twenty prizes. Entrants may submit unlimited entries using official forms. envelopes with article details are stored at a bank until judging. Entries must be in by June 1st. duplicate entries advised and the full list will appear later for error review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
Blood pressure bees metas SP Se rine ater i i o 848
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a British Medical Laboratory and a Sydney postal box, with unclear references to blood pressure, be es, and chemicals. The legible items are disjointed phrases and do not form a coherent report or identifiable events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sekensis
Sydney
Holpa
Confiscation Debate Warns Of Mortgage Tax Law
A reader denounces Section 25 of the Mortgage Taxation Act arguing it would empower colonial treasurers to seize titles and home deeds by force, threatening homes and property. The letter cites cases on marginal notes and warns Lang’s followers face political punishment in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Colonial Treasurer
Lang
N.S.W
Sutton
Messrs Garden
Graves
Demands of modern wheat growing in New South Wales
The Director of a Department of Agriculture report notes farmers claim new wheats bred for vigour via hybridity or purity, yet old varieties fail because they cannot meet modern needs. Federation and Canberra have declined due to disease susceptibility, while newer varieties resist flag root rot stem rust Septoria and other diseases, with breeders still expanding yield potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Federation
New South Wales
Canberra
United Country Party and United Australia Party policy points
The joint policy seeks constitutional reform with Royal Commission recommendations, creation of new Federal units, local self government under simplified state constitutions, equitable senatorial representation, and federal state boundary tribunals. It calls for debt relief, unemployment subsidies and loans to farmers, extended moratoriums, state control of wages, legal reforms, and reduced military housing interest rates, aiming to support unemployed youths and Returned Soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Country Party
United Australia Party
Commonwealth Royal Commission
Loan Council
Lang
Commonwealth
Doles
Arbitration Courts
Legislative Council
Public Service Reform and Moratorium Extension Debated
A legibly long, fragmented report outlines measures on settler extensions and relief, salaries legislation, and greater public service consultation. It notes non political control goals, expansion of private transport radius, and urgent steps to curb loyal and seditious propaganda alongside overdue overdrafts and ministerial accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lang
Te Retin
Public Service Board
la Party
Legislative Assembly
Also Mentioned on This Page
Will Carter
Huratville
the Fallen
Tree Hotel
Adelong
Batlow
The
Murray
Corryong
Hoyle
Ned Strahan
Mentigo
Bago Forest
Wordsworth
Sydney Central
Windows
the Times
Woods
Dobhie'a & Griffiths’ Pharmacies
Mores
Vam
Mad Hin
Leng
Owealpt
MR. Stevens
Stevens
MR. Lang
Sane Democracy League
R. Barclay
Lane Democracy League
Spri
MR. W. Smith
R.V
Bodangora
United Party
P. K
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