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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 01, 1935
Page
6
A new process promises longer lasting fuel and higher quality oil from most crude grades. It uses two solvents to remove impurities and carbon deposits, enabling cheaper, easier refining and eliminating dangerous pulchuric acid steps. Three engineers can output 2000 barrels per day.
Fifty parsons are wanted as rec ord vicars of country parishes. Vicarages cost far more than £400 wages, with needs for at least £1500 or 22,000 a year to maintain two churches. Some villages merge benefits, selling aid vicarages to fund new small houses while trusts are set to raise yearly rent. Rich young men from universities drift to business.
Two bombing planes collided at 1000 hours over Helsingford, crashing in flames. Five airmen were killed and two survivors bailed out with parachutes.
A London journalist notes Desbrough in New Mexico shows a large elderly population with 32 married couples and 91 singles over ten years, many living quiet lives, owning allotments. Boxers trained there, including Larry Gains and Reggie Meen, while Matilda Goode, aged 83, has lived there all her life and remains alert despite age.
The Rev Ralph Rumney, a young vicar from Newcastle on Tyne, starts home services in a two room tenement to reach parishioners who cannot afford Sunday clothes. Supported by a band of workers and his choir, the first service drew an 87 year old widow and neighbors in shawls, with plans to continue if demand lasts.
Charles Moore files for divorce in Kansas City seeking permanent custody of the family dog and the sewing machine. He asserts the dog was his property before marriage and the sewing machine has long been an heirloom of his family.
Police evidence details £7,600 recovered from a Jamestown fowl yard with an extra £100 later discovered on a rug. The case ties to Joseph Harold Ryan for a May 1 1931 Commonwealth Bank theft. Ryan denies the charge while linking others to a plot and a Canberra mail robbery trial. Lynch, Morris, Jacobs named in defence. Ryan wept during his mother’s illness testimony.
A global peace movement launches plans for a four conference series in Shanghai with wide backing. Canberra reports invite Great Teacher Tuan Szetani to lecturing on Confucius Cosmopolitanism and to pray for world peace. Organisers seek participation from all nationalities to mobilize effort beyond any single group.
Dalgety Shire Council reads a Tambo Shire letter requesting the Roads Board to assure the Victorian section of the West Monaro Gippaland Road is built with NSW border works. It urges a subsidy of £2 for each £1 spent to combat noxious weeds, notes St Johns Wort infestation near Adaminaby, and plans cooperation with Imlay Shire on electricity policy while thanking the Premier for attention to the Bannony River scheme.
English Postal Department engineers test a photo-electric cell system to sort letters by stamp colour, successfully identifying half-penny stamps in a mass of mail and applying cancellations. The device is not yet perfect, with feeding method as a remaining challenge.
The Royal Oak Goblet, carved with Charles the Second in the Boscobel Oak, sold at Christie’s for £580 after a long, turbulent history. Once valued at 15 shillings, it endured mishaps, relocations, and near loss before being rescued by collectors and museum loans and now belongs to Arthur Churchill.
A horse in Lidcombe was severely burned in a paddock fire after a blanket dragged through ashes igniting the horse near its neck and forequarters. The owner found the animal in a pitiable condition and it was destroyed. the incident occurred as a smouldering rubbish fire burned nearby.
A tree grown from a pip of an apple eaten by the Kaiser in 1917 has blossomed in Sussex. Rev. Rosslyn Bruce, who met the Kaiser in a German hotel, kept five pip grafts sold for charity and planted the sixth. The tree, six inches tall by 1914, stayed same height through the war and began growing again in 191. The owner hopes for an October apple.
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