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Fifty Yeari Ago
(From "Ncpcan Times,"
August 23, 1902)
A DROUGHT ITEM
The price of fodder is greatly
worrying the local horse own
ers. An anecdote: A local buy
er ordered a truck of straw
from a Sydney firm. They for
warded an inferior lot at an
inferior price. On arrival here
the local man deemed it unfit
for the customers and promptly
reconsigned it to the Sydney
firm, who submitted it for sale
as St. Marys produce and got
35/-» a ton more for it than he
had offered it to the local buyer
RAILWAY SALARIES
The State Government pro
poses, in view of the anticipated
losses in revenue, owing to the
drought, to introduce system
atic entrenchment in all de
partments of the service. The
proposed increases in the sal
aries of civil servants are not
likely to be passed by Parlia
ment, and it is thought that a
scheme will be submitted for
temporarily reducing existing
salaries.