2020: DAY 32
SMH, p10
NOTE: Lest we forget … as it is 1900. today is not ANZAC Day - this is still in the future.. The Boer War is happening now – but no Australians will die there, because there ARE no (white) Australians at this time: only New South Welshmen, Victorians etc.
RESUMPTION OF HARBOUR FORESHORES
(p5)
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT BY MR LYN
E
IMMEDIATE RESUMPTION AT DARLING HARBOUR
COMMENCEMENT OF A GENERAL SCHEME
SOME ASPECTS OF THE PLAGUE
- deputation urging resumption provided opportunity for announcement.
- deputation members: Haynes, MLA (head) Wilks, Law, Smith, JCL Fitzpatrick, Carroll, Bryce.
(89 out of 125 members signed petition in favour of resumption)
”We, the undersigned members of the Legislative Assembly, desire to urge upon you the expediency of at once resuming the whole of the wharf property lying between the Government property at Darling Hirbour and that at the Circular Quay. We urge this action for the twofold reasons that it is advisable that the Government should own this property , and that radical limprovements should be effected in this quarter at once as the only guarantee against the present disastrous plague getting a permanent hold on Sydney, to the great loss of life and ruin of our commercial interests. “
BUBONIC PLAGUE (p10)
ONE CASE YESTERDAY
NEW QUARANTINED AREAS PROCLAIMED
THE CITIZENS VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
ITS PLAN OF OPERATIONS
SOME SUGGESTIONS ASKED FOR
- members of committee: Messrs Pulsford (MLC) Archer, Wilks (MLA) Dr G. O'Neill, Aldermen T. Hughes & Waterhouse, Messrs G Lewis, JD Fitzgerald, G. Wallace, HE Farmer, Atlee Hunt, WA Notting, PC Mitchell, Mesdames Gibson, Hawley Wilson & Courtenay Smith
- meeting adjourned to 8 Thurs night.
Letter from Stockman suggesting that plague patients should be bled, since this works in cattle for blackleg and quarter evil and the symptoms are similar - sudden onset, high temp.
- “As soon as a cattle owner who knows his business discovers a case of blackleg the first thing he runs for is the lance. Plague symptoms, as far as I can learn, are very similar to those in cattle …”
Letter - build QS at South Head to save the sea trip
DISAPPEARING SYDNEY – TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD - Letter from G. Sydney Jones, Hon Sec. Institute of Architects - Institute has been collecting prints and photographs as record for archeologists and historians of future. Refers to leader in SMH on Sat 21st calling for pictorial record to be kept of changes taking place in Sydney - railway extension, north shore bridge, Darling Harbour.
Off Druitt St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW