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Middleton-C-H-Pte-53

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Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

Middleton C H Pte 53 Clifton Horace 7 Inf Bn 24 Clothing Presser Single Meth

Address: Moonee Ponds, Bowen St, 85

Next of Kin: Middleton, Mrs, mother

Enlisted: 17 Aug 1914

Embarked: A20 Hororata 19 Oct 1914

Prior Service: 3 years 5 AIR

Relatives on Active Service:

Middleton-E-H-Pte-2344 brother KIA

Presentation to Nurse Jacobson

THE POULTRY QUESTION .

(To the Editor.)

Sir,-As a returned soldier, will you kindly allow me space in your paper to state my case before the people of Essendon about keeping poultry. It is my intention to try and buy a home for myself with the aid of poultry. Having spent all my savings to secure some good birds to breed up my stock from, you can imagine the shock I got when I heard that tour Council are going to stop the keeping of poultry in the district. If I wished to secure the home I want, must I leave the district I have lived in for over 23 years? Are all the boys who are away fighting for Essendon as much as they are fighting for any other part of the Empire, to be treated in this way? There are a good many who will take up poultry breeding for a living when they return, but before they return I hope the ratepayers will see that justice is done, and see to it that they are not driven from Essendon. The Council say if we wish to keep more than 50 head of fowls we must first have their permission in writing. In what condition are we to keep our birds if we are to have the Council's consent to keep more than 50 birds? Are the Council out to stop the production of food stuff? If not, why the by-law? It cannot be a health measure; other wise the Board of Health would not have sent it back to the Council and the Council would not have been in the undignified position of having to eat their own words. They said it was a health measure. Why do not the Council call in a poultry expert to help them draft a reasonable by-law that will give some guide to all who wish to keep poultry?

-Yours, etc. EX-PTE. C. H. MIDDLETON

No. 53, 7th Battalion.

THE POULTRY QUESTION. (1917, August 2). Flemington Spectator (Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 5. Retrieved May 30, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88448840