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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 15, 1942
Page
6
The World of Sport notes a Hack Club event with a race scheduled for Saturday afternoon at 4 pm. Details are sparse but indicate a local club racing session likely featuring runners associated with Hack Club.
In Brisbane December 14, the Amber spear case centers on the running of Amber inelli v Moran. The matter involves owners, stewards, and a pending inquiry from Rosehill the prior Saturday. No immediate restriction on the horse or connections was stated, with possible race allowance at Randwick discussed as the inquiry continues.
At Ravenshoe on December 12 the Tumoulin Hack Race Meeting conducted a limited benefit event for a Commonwealth fund. Attendance was moderate and racing quality varied with several divisions and multiple horses starting. Scurry dominated several races with clear wins and tight finishes noted in the results list.
Greyhound owners are reminded that nominations for the two day meeting begun over the Christmas period. Excellent nominations have already been received. Prize money has been raised and the success of this meeting will depend on the support received.
Mr Hedley Ward, a former Sydney racing reporter, and Mr 8 Bowen resign as stipendiary stewards of the South African Jockey Club. Ward hopes to return to Australia by mid next year. The move reflects tensions over steward powers and calls for greater control, with South Africa and New Zealand cited as examples. Bowen previously served as stipendiary steward at Calros for the Normherr District Racing Association.
A Melbourne luncheon to celebrate St Andrew's Day featured High Commissioner Sir Joneld Cross urging a greatly increased Australian population. Speakers including Chancellor Lowe and Governor Dugan stressed postwar expansion and national as well as world influence. Colonel E Burti noted morale in Guadalcanal.
The piece argues colonial America produced little Shakespeare or Michelangelo, focusing on practical labor while Europeans built art and architecture. It credits early collectors like Halsey, Revere, and silversmiths, noting Williamsburg and Annapolis as examples of developing American cultural identity during the colonial era.
A historic patriotic call laments loss of wartime resolve and urges renewal of sacrifice and faith to meet present dangers. It invokes liberty or death, pacifism as golden calf, and roots in Lincoln era ideals, urging humility, repentance, and moral action across communities.
The piece argues that society rests on a strong cement of shared ideals and liberty. It warns that power lust weakens this bond, citing Henry A Wallace on democracy and the Bible as a political guide, urging the Bible’s practical use for building enduring freedom and civil society.
The Calms Sub-branch Assalla invites attendees to a monthly general meeting at the Anzac Club tomorrow at p.m. The NQ Bacon Association also invites applications for a male or female clerk.
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