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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Oct 25, 1950
Page
2
A garbled OCR item mentions a lottery in the Hinann P Hopital area of Nowra with a prize and a winning number. It references contestants or organizers but the text is unreadable in places.
The Canberra City Bowling Johnson Cup challenge team lineup lists Blewitt Challen Marchant Kee sa Beet Brack 7 Regan Marshall Rose HLM Ginith Gutsherison Howe Dunner Withers Styles Nielson Rowland Taylor Medh Alter Makin Pointon Jayce Fats as players for Sundays match at Braddon starting 1:45 p.m.
Names of captains and participants across athletics basketball swimming and junior tennis finals listed for the girls events. Notable figures include Joan Limbert Helen Lavens Esther Greig and Beverly Green with scores cited for the junior House tennis competition.
Arrangements for the 2001 Southern Tablelands pennant competition were approved. Royal Canberra will open at Vale on in April and finish in August at Goulburn. Vanderasening announced his club would provide a pennant and trophies for the winning team. Approximately 169 players from pennant clubs attended.
Representative of the NSW Wales Country Rugby League said the Group 8 meeting at Queanbeyan was postponed due to Captain's Flat's absence and incomplete books. Mr. A Bowers noted the balance sheet for the Canberra England match was not finalized and cited ongoing questions from the Country Rugby League.
Trainers report on track forms with Chieguita and Taracian Lad excelling in pace work at Mentone and Moonee Valley. Chitral and Benvolo show speed, while Careiesa may miss the W. S. Cox Plate due to caution in turning. Bellwood rode Careleas in a morning trial but the horse pulled up.
Police witnesses told City Court that a horse trainer and two others defrauded the Bank of Australasia of 68 548 pounds in January. Walter Thomas Walker of St Kilda Road, Melbourne, was remanded to October 30 awaiting arrival of a witness from Sydney. The prosecutor urged a substantial ball given the large amount involved.
Perth reports a weathered cricket day as West Australia and the M C C finished in a draw after mutual innings. England lacked pace bowler Bedser due to influenza while Australia chased ambitious targets before lunch and posted 890 runs in 200 minutes earlier in the day.
Australian jockey Neville Sell wood praised as one of the greatest booola of all time by Joe Brown auld in Los Angeles. He struck up a close friendship with Bellwood in Sydney and is arranging mounts for Bellwood at Santa Anita before Sell wood leaves for England next March.
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