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  5. SCANDALS AT YANCO.

    The condition of affairs here portrayed at Yanco reveals that settlement in the depths of disorganisation, and hampered by the most wasteful extravagance. What our special correspondent states is borne out by other investigations, and by a large ...

    Article : 407 words
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  7. ANSWERING THE SETTLER.

    Indignant and aggrieved settlers have asked over and over again for inquiry. Soothing promises of better organisation have been made to them, but ...

    Article : 358 words
  8. THE SELECTOR'S TIMBER.

    One of the most amazing complaints--almost incredible if it were not positively asserted--concerns the way in which the trust has dealt with timber on the selections. Men ...

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  9. DRIVING A NAIL

    "I have seen a fellow driving a nail," he continued. "He was the most deliberate man I have ever seen. It was a case of one smack between ...

    Article : 332 words
  10. SETTLER'S MELANCHOLY STORY.

    Our special correspondent met a man who looked as miserable as a wet hen. A leading question, "Have you got the hump, old chap?" was the means of releasing an ...

    Article : 460 words
  11. MATERIALS NOT FORTHCOMING.

    One of the worst muddles in the growth of the settlement has been the utter lack of business capacity in the supply of materials for buildings and other works, but ...

    Article : 495 words
  12. SETTLERS SCARED AWAY.

    There is no doubt whatever that intending settlers are scared away by the burst of grievous complaint they hear as soon as they arrive in Yanco. It is no wonder. In ...

    Article : 317 words
  13. NO ORGANISING CONTROL.

    Organising talent has never been at the head of affairs to direct the progress of the settlement. It is managed in the first instance by a political Trust, consisting of ...

    Article : 275 words
  14. CASE FOR CLOSE INQUIRY.

    Surely this muddle of disorganisation deserves the immediate attention of Parliament. The Ministry is very closely wrapped up with the confusion in the affairs at Yanco, ...

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  15. SLACK LABOR CONDITIONS.

    Without subscribing completely to the doctrine of unquestioning obedience that some employers would like to impose on the whole class of workmen, any body hearing the ...

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  16. AN OFFICIAL'S REVELATIONS.

    Complaint has also been made concerning the haul account charges. Settlers assert that while they have been charged a fixed rate for a load of building material brought ...

    Article : 397 words
  17. ACCOUNTS NOT FURNISHED.

    The Auditor-General complains, with regard to money expended on working plant and live stock, that "the inventories required by Treasury Regulation No. 85, ...

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  18. SCANDALOUSLY DEAR HOUSES.

    Among the chief monuments to the glaring errors of the Trust and its officers are the five houses which have been erected for engineers and other officers. Surely a few ...

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  19. BLEEDING THE SETTLER.

    One of the worst hardships inflicted on the settler in the way of trust charges is the price he has to pay for "supervision." On ordinary contracts, anywhere else but at ...

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