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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 11, 1950
Page
2
There were increased supplies noted in the cattle section with fair demand and moderate activity overall. Quotations show bulls heavy 88 to 98 shillings, steers 88 to 91, cows 82 to 81, heifers 87 to 94, vealers 88 to 107 per 100 pounds, with a fair, broadly represented market.
The Can were Police Force shifts its control to the Department of the Interior from the Attorney-General’s Department starting July 1 following a Public Service Interdepartmental Committee recommendation. The move aims to tighten civic administration links, with overtime, loans, and factory transfers to be kept as usual without radical change. Contempt rulings and wage dispute tensions continue to influence unions and employers in the metal trades.
The Arbitration Court in Melbourne fined five metal trades unions £100 each for contempt of court. Named unions include the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Australasian Society of Engineers. The Federated Ironworkers Sheet Metal Workers' Union and Boilermakers unions were also named.
Actress Dorothy Lamour will have an operation at the Good Samaritan Hospital today for an abdominal cyst after returning from Europe. The delay was to build strength through transfusions prior to the procedure.
London report notes most city road service ran normally while several hundred drivers joined a strike near Smithfield meat market. Two thousand troops were deployed to safeguard essential goods over the weekend as Mr Justice Kirby ruled costs should be the sole consequence.
A Ryde Coroners Court jury found Mrs Maude Clarke died of heart failure after a scalding bath at Gatesville mental hospital. They urged condemnation of the hospital’s hot water system and replacement with a new setup. Nurse Maris Lapkin said a mixer could regulate water temperature but she lacked a key to operate it, often running hot water before adding cold. Evidence showed Mrs Clarke was insensitive to pain and did not complain after a severe scalding. Detective Constable Ferris cast doubt on a fellow patient’s account of the incident.
A conference settled on higher minimum earnings for wool clasers, boosting weekly pay from the prior level to 14 pounds 18 shillings 9 pence. The new rates take effect July 3, 1960, tied to wool market movements for the 1949-50 season and adjustable with wool price shifts.
Wool sales at Goulburn report a general advance over last year with record prices for merino and related lines. The Farmers and Grazier branch notes strong bids from Canberra, Ginninderra, Sutton, and surrounding districts, listing numerous buyers and prices though many entries are partial or garbled in the OCR.
Sydney inquest hears Norman Robert Ells, 28, Ultimo, crashed Tiger Moth at Pelican Point Cronulla on May 11. Witness John Hayward farmer says engine opened during near vertical dive. Coroner Mr A N Bott returns verdict of accidental death in absence of contrary evidence.
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