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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 18, 1947
Page
4
The renowned punter L. Wanlias, famed as New Zealand, has bought four year old gelding Revinach for £1000. Revinach has earned £1720 from three wins. Wanliss plans to visit New Zealand for yearling sales and aims to race the purchases in Australia.
A list of players for the A and B bowling teams to travel to Queanbeyan for Sunday matches with surnames including Ross Coltheart Chalten Hower Cooper Smith Moss Grooms Fawcett Mitchell Marchant Lamb Law Griffiths Clerke Brack Roberts Gilbert Alder Smith Lancaster Wallace E Smith Marshall Rowland Johnson Cheetham Joyce Bradshaw Meeking Tickner Love. Saturday matches at 1 pm feature Roberts v Taylor Wallace v Bradshaw Alder v Johnson Marshall v Love and J J Brogan v Griffiths at Canberra City venues.
Wednesday report says two B South Coast aldermen Alfred Crew 50 and Harold Williams 49 were killed when their utility truck was struck by a train at Oak Flat eighteen miles south of Wollongong. Charles Moore witnessed the crash and was hospitalized in severe shock. Crew died instantly, Williams died ten minutes later.
Three Sydney horses Lackaboy Temeraire and Mine Host are likely to go to Melbourne to contest the Oakleigh Plate. Few Sydney entries appear in the race with Arahnene the last winner. Lackaboy and Temeraire clash in the Carrington Stakes at Randwick next Saturday while Temeraire will also run in the Challenge Stakes.
Sydney knockout victim Freddie Ioon defeated Vic Patrick who announced retirement, but Patrick said today he will fight again in the New Year. He credits lessons from Dawson and vows to use them to improve his fighting.
Seaman Orel Omlund of SYVOUNEYV age 26 was remanded in Central Cowl today until February 14 on a charge of causing bodily harm to a police constable. Sergeant Milne said Constable William Mahoney, a police cyclist, was struck by a car Omlund was illegally using, and both hips were broken.
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