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Newspaper
Brisbane Courier Mail
Location
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date
May 05, 1936
Page
2
A collection of notes on land value, pension state claims, and estate duties. Mentions Commonwealth estate duty scales, probate and succession duties, and Queensland met value thresholds. Includes remarks on fiduciary entitlements and cross state recognition of university credentials.
Allan Matr, 23, labourer, pleaded guilty to possession of gaming instruments and assaulting a constable at the Broadway Hotel Woolloomabba on May 2. He kicked the constable in the stomach as he was being escorted to a car. Fined £10 for gaming and £2 for the assault with default imprisonments.
David O Keefe aged 31 pleaded guilty before Mr W Simper PM to possessing 40 doubles of racing bets in a book found on May 2 at Honala Bickers billiard room Day's Road Grange. He claimed he bet for another man and offered no name. He was fined £10 or one month imprisonment.
Herbert Benfield a 47 year old polk man appeared in Brisbane Police Court on a consorting with reputed criminals charge covering January 8 to March 13 1935. He admitted working as a cook in the Cunnamulla district and said he planned to leave the city.
An ad style blurb promotes Claire Dodd of Warner Bros as a top dancer and dramatic talent. It urges women to use Creme Charmosan for youthful skin, claiming seven ingredients restore clarity and charm against sun wind and dust.
A list of crossword clues and numbering from a Courier-Mail page includes terms like Skip Seat, Innocence, Wanderer, Prospect, Mariner, Dedicates, Unites, and Careen with various numeric references and broad theme hints. The items mix definitions and wordplay, suggesting a puzzle page calibration or clue catalog from a late edition.
James Blair aged 39, engineer, was charged in the Police Court with obtaining a motor tyre and tube by false pretences from Robert McIntosh Dean on March 2 at Forest Hill claiming authority from G. 8. Webb and Co. Blair pleaded guilty. Prosecution said Blair, a Webb and Co. former commission worker and drug addict, sought five tyres and tubes. one was supplied and others promised. Blair had been in morphine daily four months earlier, was treated and discharged after a £50 good behaviour bond for 12 months.
Edward Bilins pleaded guilty to stealing three sheets of galvanised iron valued at £1 from a building on Ipswich Road. He admitted the act and said he intended to use the iron to improve his fowlhouse. He has 18 years on the tramways and was discharged on entering a bond of £10.
In a Melbourne police court yesterday Frederick Keogh pleaded guilty to stealing a cake of soap from Woolworths Ltd. He claimed he needed it for a wash to support his ten children. The magistrate discharged him after brief remarks by the prosecutor.
Anthony Clark 19 appeared in Follee Court with magistrate Mr W Simpson to answer a charge of stealing a gold wristlet watch and an electric torch valued at £25 from George Leake Campbell at Murphys Road Cee Bung on April 20. Clark pleaded guilty and was discharged after agreeing to a six month probation at a Salvation Army farm, with a £10 bond.
Proceedings list for the Law List display with cases The King v Parmenter Kop Ves Atherton Ralph Graham Forrester and related applications for leave to appeal against convictions and sentences Civil sittings include Reeve v Haenke before Justice Henchman and others
The New South Wales health minister said NSW trails Queensland in child diphtheria immunisation. Queensland provides free or nominal cost treatment to all children, with the NSW scheme targeting welfare cases. Officials note funds spent on assessing indigence may exceed direct benefits, but the diphtheria drive is welcomed for public health.
J Prancis reports that the Deputy Director of Posts and Telegraphs has ordered changes to the Coomera exchange hours. The postmistress will run a broader but slightly shorter opening period from Monday to Friday and Saturday, extending service across more hours though total hours open will be marginally less.
At the first general meeting the State Public Service sub branch of RSS.LL.A. decided, subject to Education Department approval, to award a £55 Cursary to the child of a returned pastor, soldier, or nursing sister employed in a state government department who attains the highest marks in the December Queensland scholarship examination.
The Sunday lesson in Christian Science presented Everlasting Penitence as the theme with the Golden Text promising peace. It cited biblical lines on sowing and reaping and quoted Mary Baker Eddy on belief, hypocrisy, and divine law, emphasizing divine mercy and the destruction of error.
A police court hearing yesterday listed over 20 offenders for drunkenness at the home of William Woodcock. One man died in hospital the day before and the remaining defendants were either fined, discharged, or remanded as to the forfeit of their ball.
Edward Small, 25, butcher, was fined £3 and ordered to pay £3 restitution or three weeks in jail for stealing a gold brooch and two gold servings worth £3 from Edith Dorothea Chesser on December 14 1935 in Brisbane. Small admitted the theft after residing with the complainant’s family and selling the items to a buyer.
H Ivers Mackay sugar planter arrived in Brisbane aboard the Mongolia with a collection of rare mango varieties from India including Sabra Uthadamon Office Pacinda and Langra. He hopes these fibreless fruits will offer better flavour and plants include frangipani hybrids ixoras tropical fruit trees and nutmeg and cocoa shrubs.
Hedlands Poultry Club hosted the Redlands show in Cleveland with about 100 birds. Awards went to Geo Taylor for White Leghorn and Austrelorp entries, A Davies for Rhode Island Red and Ancona, Les Holland for bantams, and E J Trade with several utility and game breeds among many classes.
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