Les wrote: | Trevor, I think the reason the testimony appears so chopped up and | incomplete is because the questions have been omitted. | I have seen this before in court testimony where the shorthand writer only | takes down the replies. The questions have to be deduced from the reply. | Am willing to be corrected on this. Les, I think you are partially correct on this. However, if you wait till the next few instalments you will see that there is a progressive deterioration in simple journalistic standards, compared with the hearings reported in the 'Dunolly and Betbetshire Express' later in the week. | Abolition of the Mining Boards? Apparently they only have power to make | bye-laws (governing alluvial and sluicing I presume). Now deep lead and | quartz mining has taken over they are dispensible, the Mining Board | elections were hotly contested in the 1860's. Yes. Later witnesses at Tarnagulla are mostly, but not entirely, in favour of both the Mining Boards and the Prospecting Boards being abolished and their powers handed over to municipal councils. I wonder if there was a bit of local self interest at play? Or am I just too cynical? lol. Trevor