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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 17, 1935
Page
2
The Government offers a grant for primary products to needy families. Applications for food orders must be submitted to the Shire Clerk by Monday 23 December. Other items note long service with the Shire, funerals and staff changes, plus 1936 show prize schedules and local personal updates.
At Central Criminal Court Justian Hale Rogers imprisoned Albert Augustus Smith 4h to 12 years penal servitude and Bernard Joseph Brown 53 and Samuel Brown 48 seven years each for conspiring to place a bomb near Ernest Lowe’s home. Thomas Cecil Brown 21 bound over to keep good behavior. Samuel Brown may seek release after part of his sentence. Bernard Brown not granted a similar concession. The judge found no mitigating factors for Smith, who was deemed a dangerous man and the scheme’s originator. The defendants included a boxer and a past moneyed man, with the bomb possibly wrecking the building and harming occupants if rain hadn’t fallen.
Bernard Brown 58 cattle dealer Samuel Brown 39 labourer Thomas Cecil Brown 41 labourer and Albert Smith 45 baker were found guilty in the Criminal Court of conspiring to place an explosive near Ernest Lowe’s West Wallsend home around October 20. The jury heard handwriting expert evidence, with defense arguing against police testimony and calls to doubt detectives. Thomas Cecil Brown recommended to mercy, sentencing set for Monday.
At the Local Police Court Austin Tull pleaded guilty to using insulting words to Constable Hertz and resisting arrest. He was fined £2 and six days hard labour. Raymond Tull, accused of inciting resistance, was fined £3 or six days. The defendants claimed little memory of the incident.
The firm Andrews and Johnston operate a modern cedar planing and joinery mill in Gloucester Mes ra. They contract for cedar used in cigar boxes and supply building trades with cedar mouldings and doors. A new saw bench, four feet circular saw, headers, and other machinery run by motors boost production as demand grows.
Following a regular monthly meeting and a special session to elect officers for the year, Cr A J White was re elected unopposed as Shire President for 1936. The President’s allowance was fixed at 100 a year. Councillors formed Works Finance and Park Committees. A year opening celebration followed the president’s address with seasonal greetings extended.
In the first round of the B Pennant Competition begun last Saturday at Wingham, Wingham’s No 1 and 2 teams defeated Tarde No. % and Gloucester. Scorers include Bolton Rye Woodward Street 23 Bell Murphy Johnstone L Pereira and Teal McIntyre Adams Anderson Oy Smith Stone Walshe Milne Thomas Andrews Boor Maitland Summerville Vale Jace Gibson. Consistency handicap players urged to play off games for the Anderson trophy. Christmas game Saturday offers a special pairs tournament at 2 pm and a night game. all members and prospective members urged to attend.
Misses E Saxby and D Crawley served as bridesmaids at the Methodist Church wedding of Thelma Juay Slade and Wilfred Bolton on December 10 in New Lambton. The bride, daughter of S H Slade of Gloucester, wore satin with train and orange blossom veil. reception at Mrs Crawley’s home. couple to honeymoon in Sydney and Katoomba, then reside in Gloucester.
Messrs E W Luking and non Taree won the Alls Laval Separator Co contest for best sales results in A grade across New South Wales. Alan Lukinshan acted as district agent. B grade went to Gloucester with agent Mr Weston. Both divisions carried substantial prizes amid a harsh winter in the state.
Cricket fret grade action continued on Saturday with Barrington defeating Tugrabakh by first innings 150 to 87. Top scores featured Cyril Humberger 78 retired and John Matthewson 55, while Jack Smith led Tugrabakh with 46 and 1 for 23 bowling. In Waratahs v Wattles, Wattles reached 241 and Giddey 55 plus Beattie 39 aided momentum. GANGAT routed Thistles 256 for 5 with Bamberger 78 and Harris 43. Bowlers McAlpin and Gordon claimed 8-33 and 2-48 respectively.
Melbourne's T and G Mutual Life Society reports strong policy growth with 169 695 new and 13 700 402 in premiums, plus 274 accident policies totaling 7 25 102. The year saw 787 culinary department policies with accident benefits, total income 4 557 932, investments 23 170 360, and contingency fund up to 562 074. The actuarial report shows no surplus. repairs and factory maintenance funded. Chairman J T Thompson notes improving business conditions and confidence in continued expansion.
About 516 British school cadets toured Belgium visiting Mons and studying German and British battlefield positions. The group examined fortifications and observed how lines or trenches shaped the engagement in the early stages of the conflict.
A dense schedule of Christmas and Advent church services across Gloucester and nearby towns. Includes Church of England, Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational, Stroud Baptist, and Booral Union services with times at multiple parishes such as Tugra bakh Wallaswory Glouces ter Nabiac Forster Barrington Gloucester and Stroud. Also notes a Christmas Day lineup and a pause until January 18 1966 with Rev J Lundie and Rev A T Whale among others.
The Gloucester School of Arts Library will be closed from December 26 to December 30 for cloning of a display. Submissions and access will be restricted during this period while the project completes.
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