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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 30, 1932
Page
4
Race card details for Tattersalls on a Saturday listing weights and entries across Maiden Handicap 1m Juvenile Stakes and other races. Provides horse names, jockeys, weights, and start times with notes on barriers and pacing. Includes Denman Handicap and Carrington Stakes entries with declared contestants and pacing times.
AJL scratchings list changes and a race named Anniversary Handicap features tweaks to entries and odds. Key drivers like Staken and Htately are mentioned amid lineup adjustments and morning notes from the track officials.
The latest order of favouritism lists Carrington contenders Closing Time Holdfast Ron Cretien Vista Tom Pinck Captivation for the Carrington event and Denman Handicap entrants Magnetto Topical Bayington Haley Rogerson Lovely Balloon Phlare.
Melbourne officials reject trainers’ charges of widespread rough riding in Victoria. Chairman Mackinnon says racing today showed safety and fairness. He notes many accidents and interference stem from overzealous riding and inevitable race dynamics rather than deliberate unfairness.
Japan's wool buying shows strong activity in 1938 with imports from Australia and India rising. Currency depreciation boosts purchasing power, while competition from Japan in woollen goods grows. English mills adjust to maintain supply, and outlook remains cautiously optimistic amid exchange rate and global events.
The Flemington sale drew about 32 000 sheep and lambs with buyers active and prices up to 4s 6d dearer than last week. Wethers and ewes showed gains while cattle forwards numbered about 2400 with good to prime descriptions securing higher rates. NZ Lown and Mercantile Agency noted yarding of 1 600 wethers and lambs at Memebah, with offerings fair and prices easing slightly after opening.
In southern France a Stone Age workshop is uncovered by J Townsend Runwelt of the Smithsonian. An extensive surface quarry lies beneath soil, with flint tool flakes along a Pyrenees track. Finds indicate Cro-Marmon Holtrean culture workers sourced from a known regional tool tradition.
Report describes a mineral called chloite or Itinextone enabling human eyes to perceive infra red rays by transforming them into visible wavelengths. It claims minerals can map infra red into short waves, allowing detection and conversion to light, with implications for electricity and temperature effects of the mineral.
At Queanbeyan Court yesterday before Mr G A Morgan twelve cases of drunkenness and disorder were heard. Six defendants failed to appear and bail was forfeited. Remaining cases included John Pini Arthur Athomid Leslie Laurie Hilary Clear Eleanor Henry Janett John Haslam Patrick Ryan James Burrows John Doyle and George Skipper Caldwell. Convictions varied with fines, hard labour, or daily labour, and several were ordered to pay costs or placed on security.
A wartime spy tale details a German agent known as Herr J. C. Lund who operated from Liverpool to London. He supplied crucial intelligence to German authorities via covert channels, including smuggling messages through Canada and guiding communications to neutral countries. The account describes packaging, timing, and methods used to thwart submarine threats and to move advanced weapon designs to Germany.
A German discovery describes making small oxygen bricks by embedding oxygens in preserved form. The bricks are claimed to be stable for years and non explosive, with oxygen release activated by two chemists when a glass vial is broken. Production is costly but promises safer emergency oxygen supply for miners and households.
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