Local news from newspaper archives
The Tamworth Daily Observer (NSW), Saturday 29 July 1911
Cooney Creek (Armidale) Native Dog Association last year spent £33 in exterminating noxious animals. For this year the bonuses will be — native dogs, £3 each; foxes, £1; and 5/ each for cubs under four months.
Written by macalba
June 4, 2013 at 8:30 am
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Tagged with armidale, coonabarabran
This blog presents local news taken from newspaper archives, recording the minutiae of everyday life in a bygone age.
Newspapers were the main, if not the only, source of news and information for much of that time. For this reason we can get a deeper glimpse into everyday life a century ago, than we might gleen from today's newspapers.
[... and in the process of doing this, I'll learn more about the history of the area in which I live. I'll concentrate on northern New England, at least initially, rather than the entire New England area, as that's the part I'm more familiar with.]
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