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Northern Advocate, 9 January 1920, Page 1

A, boy named Keith Ryan, of Camberra, was bitten by a tiger snake in bed, and died. The parents heard the child calling out that something: was crawling over him. They went to the room and discovered a large tiger snake in the bed- The boy was bitten in several places. The suburb of Mosman (Sydney) will not permit advertising hoardings. Recently a firm applied for a license to erect a hoarding for such purposes, when the town clerk r°niarked: "This is an annual application, and it is annually refused." The Mayor said that they diet not regard hoardings as the ideal form of advertising, particularly when, as in the case under review, the site is right at the entrance to the borough-. The council refused the application. The drift from wheat-growing which has been so apparent in New Zealand in recent years is just as noticeable in Australia. $ir Joseph Carruthers, an ox-Premier of New South Wa'>les ) in a recent article iv* the "Sydney Darly Telegraph*" warns the country of the danger of the drift. "No farmer in Australia," ho states, "with the average yield per acre can tp-day produce wheat and pay the honest wages and charges under 5s per bushel at railway station. Hence lit is that every sano man is giving up wheat-growing rather than go bankrupt. If the wheat-grower had to pay the average city rate of wages, say, 12s per day, with a foreman's wage to himself, he could not grow wheat under 7s per bushel."