2020: DAY 39
SMH, p7
(p6) editorial pointing out inadequacies of municipal inspection system. A new inspection system required. - "proper system of inspection" for boarding houses, hotels, "used by what may be called the floating population of a large city like this."
WHARF RESUMPTION (p7)
IMPORTANT CABINET MEETING
THE DARLING HARBOUR WHARFS
AN EMERGENCY SCHEME AGREED TO
AN EXPENDITURE OF ABOUT TWO MILLIONS - Mr Wise - resumptions to deal with present emergency. More complete scheme will be submitted later to reconstruct the "crooked streets on western side of George St between Margaret St and Miller's Point.
- SMH writer: "Indeed it would be far more satisfactory as well as useful and effective work, from an engineering point of view, to raze the buildings and level the country from the sea back to the centre of the city; but established cities may not be handled as rigorously..."
- SMH approving of decision: -> "There are many members of Parliament ... members of Govt... who applaud a certain idea which has found utterance and which presents to imagination the picture of a splendid unbroken sea wall, dipping down sheer into deep water and backed by lines of imposing stores, with a goods railway gliding along the broad roadway past the front doors...The present shoreline is a succession of twists and irregularities - kinks to use a colloquialism..."
- List of the wharves affected.
THE WAR
COLONIES AID TO THE EMPIRE
A MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE
SURPRISE OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD
DRAWING THE EMPIRE TOGETHER
GREAT BRITAIN'S PRESTIGE HEIGHTENED
AN INFLUENCE UNPARALLELED IN THE WORLD
SPEECH BY LORD SALISBURY
RELIEF COLUMN FOR MAFEKING
BUBONIC PLAGUE
(p8)
CASES REPORTED YESTERDAY Two quarantined areas released
- 6 fresh cases, 2 deaths
- first two gazetted areas released.
613 rats caught & burned
CITIZENS VIGILANCE COMMITTEE- Exec meeting held; Dr Graham MLA in chair Prof Anderson Stuart asked to repeat his lecture on plague .
LECTURE BEFORE LADIES SANITARY ASSOCIATION - between 50 and 60 ladies attended meeting at Town Hall under auspices of Sydney Ladies Sanitary Association. Lecture by Mrs Hassfield who had been a nurse in Bombay recently. Arrangements were being made to engage the "lecturess"to lecture to working women. Valuable hints given for keeping plague out of "the home"
Illawarra Wharf, Sydney, 1900 - source: State Library of NSW