2020: DAY 37
SMH, p8
THE WAR
(p7)
RELIEF OF MAFEKING
- (looks imminent …)
FEDERATION. (p7)
DELEGATES' MEMORANDUM TO MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
BOLD AND UNCOMPROMISING IN TONE.
STRONGLY DEPRECATES ANY AMENDMENT.
MR. DICKSON DECLINES TO SIGN.
LONDON, April 28. — The Federal Delegates, Mr. E. Barton (N.S.W.), Mr. A. Deakin (Victoria), Mr. C. C. Kingston (South Australia), and Sir P. O. Fysh (Tasmania), have presented a second memorandum to Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the matter of the proposed amendments to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Bill. In this second memorandum the delegates still strongly deprecate any amendment of the Commonwealth Bill, since the cablegram of the Premiers in reply to the despatch of the Secretary of State does not withdraw, enlarge, or modify the original instructions given to the delegates. The memorandum is singularly bold and uncompromising in tone. It traverses the arguments of the Cabinet, and maintains the position which was established by the referendum vote. The memorandum insists that any alteration in the Bill, even through the covering clause, would be distasteful and harassing to the colonies, and that if Australians acquiesced in the amendments, it would be because they were made to choose between bowing to the changes, or to intervention, or to the danger of delay in its passing. Mr. J. R. Dickson, the representative of Queensland, wrote to his colleagues on the Federal Delegation, declining to sign the memorandum on the ground that further controversy would militate against the speedy passage of the Bill.
BUBONIC PLAGUE
, (p8)
CASES FOR 2 DAYS
GREAT INCREASE IN RATS CAPTURED
- 7 cases
- rats killed 539; 1556 for week – new record!
’The work of cleaning up is settling down into a more even groove than it was during the first weeks of quarantining. At first, it will be remembered, the work was to some extent a " panic " one, but now that the quarantining is done for purposes of cleansing, without reference to whether cases of plague have been discovered within the areas or not, and simply because there is a danger that if the work is stopped the carriers of contagion may congregate and spread the disease among themselves, the work is being reduced to a system, and more as a precautionary measure than otherwise. ‘
RAT DESTRUCTION AT WOOLLAHRA
CAPITATION GRANT APPLIED FOR
Off 281 Kent St, Sydney, 1900 - source: State Library of NSW