2020: DAY 42
SMH p7
142 Sussex St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
THE DARLING HARBOUR RESUMPTIONS
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MR G.H. REID ON THE LEGAL AND POLITICAL ASPECT
VALIDITY OF THE PROCLAMATION QUESTIONED
- Lyne responded to petition by 89 members. Reid not opposed in principle to resumption. He too had proposed a similar plan. But this one is illegal.
A Former Valuation
Exec Committee of Wharfage Improvement Association (GW Murray, John Young, W. W. McMillan) presented proposal for resumption in 1883 (Aug 15) Cost of scheme £2,478, 260
BUBONIC PLAGUE
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OPENING OF THE WHARFS
CASES YESTERDAY
PROPHYLACTIC FROM MAURITIUS
LECTURE BY PROFESSOR ANDERSON STUART. - use your own towel when staying in strange places. - people inoculated with Haffkine's were 40x safer from death by plague if they caught it. - the scheme for Greater Sydney ought to be carried out because it would encourage "a proper class of men" to enter municipal life; municipal officers could be paid so that they could act independently