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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 20, 1931
Page
2
A letter criticizes a new unemployment relief tax as a heavy burden on business. It urges instalment payments and assures funds should support unemployment relief, warning money may fund overtaxed departments instead. The writer calls for a state wide protest to push for easier terms.
First grade cricket notes show Gloucester Blues defeating Tugra-Dekh on the Park by 108 runs, Blues 193 and Tugrabakh 90. G Easton top-scored 72 not out. G Muddiz for Tugrabakh 23. McIntyre took 6 for 42, Easton 2 for. Gloucester Reds beat Kia-Ora by 49 runs, Reds 120, Kis-Ora 71. Bucksheraim 2, F Boston 20, W Figgins 24. J Bell McHas 5 for 1 run. Second grade Gloucester victory over Stratford by 110 runs, Blanch 43, P Giddey 51. Details in Friday’s same. Transport Commission ban on pirate parties in licensed lorries referenced. Omega watches promo note follows.
Report from the Shire Council shows 72 men presenting for work after an advertisement. Married men get two days of work, single men one day. six men start on Waukivory Road with £50 allocated, and others toil on Stratford and town projects with another £50. The mayor predicts the end of the Shire Council system amid calls to merge boards and cut overlaps.
State Parliament reopens with private members' business in the morning and the government programme in the afternoon. Twelve bills and minor matters are listed, including the Marketing Bill and a measure to regulate starting price betting shops. Cabinet not yet completed. proposal for a Ministry of Transport debated. financial policy undecided. wages tax to be amended to exclude workers earning under £2 weekly.
A truck and diesel tank derailed a line between Wallarobba and Wiragulla about 5 am Friday. The crash wrecked rails and culverts, scattering sleepers and damaging an oil tank. Rail services were restored by 9 25 am with limited delays.
The public shows a clear preference for the North Coast route to Brisbane, with strong likelihood that the Brisbane Wallangarra Mail will run three days a week instead of six. Queensland has tentatively decided on a move, though not yet definite. Railway Minister and N E W Railway Commissioners discuss imminent rearrangements, with NSW side changes undecided.
In Sydney on Monday the Agriculture Minister said he awaited word from the Commonwealth Bank on a 3fob advance guarantee for wheat under the Wheat Advances Act. He noted its influence on state efforts to stabilise retail prices for food and expected a prompt reply from Mr. Scullin. Meanwhile a city elevator official reported wheat trucks arriving from the countryside at 250 to 300 per day, with overseas shipments scheduled to reach 64,000 tons by next March.
Premier Lang reaffirmed that the wage tax was not used for public service salaries and noted unemployment relief tax receipts up to January 13 totaling 80,000. He said £2,000,000 had been allocated for relief work by the previous government, exhausting all estimates to June 30, 1931. The revenue fund was drawn on to keep works going, and the Auditor General would restrict unemployment tax proceeds to approved relief work only.
The 2376 cattle yarded showed better quality than recent sales with prime light to medium grades, good condition cattle plentiful and strong demand for prime ready-to-market types. At Maitland fat stock sales about 1950 cattle and 2000 sheep were handled with brisk competition and varied prices. pig market had 375 yarded with active bidding and diverse ranges.
The Farmers and Graz iers Co op notes January offerings of 505 bales from Scone Upper Hunter Inverell and northern districts with generally average quality and satisfactory staple length. The market was mostly 5 percent dearer aided by exchange rates. Separately the State Parliamentary Labour party rejects a Water and Sewerage Employees union request for 2500 government works to hire union members, insisting labour use state exchanges contrary to the Assistant Minister for Labour's view.
The report notes a price reduction to a prefont level, marking a notable decline in the cost of key goods. Officials, vendors, and shoppers respond as markets show interest in the adjusted rate and immediate purchasing impulses rise.
West Australia reports the largest nugget yet found, the 1335 oz Golden Eagle unearthed by 18 year old Jim Larcombe in Larkinville. A bank escort transported it to Kalgoorlie, with value cited at £5655 plus premiums. A second find in the same field weighed 11307 ozdwt and is expected to fetch over £1080 in gold value. The discovery renews excitement over Larkinville prospects as authorities warn new prospectors.
In Bullock Competition at Bulllac and Mr Andrews paddock alone fatsheet trials tested seven Latimore bred bullocks against seven Andrews bred Shorthorn bullocks. Two Andrews Bullocks were killed. Weights show Speckled Toan Dullock totals 580 pounds and Greyd totals 1286 pounds with hindquarters and forequarters listed for each animal.
The State Government considers a special petrol bowser tax to raise revenue. Current charges include registration 40 shillings per year for the first 400 gallon tank and license fees of £1 for up to 400 gallons, £2 for larger tanks. Last year this yielded £9000 and £2700 in the first half of the current year. An amending bill is planned for Parliament plus a change to allow producers and country residents to store more petrol or inflammable liquid.
A notice warns that fishing shooting or rabbiting on Ky Wong Barrington is forbidden after January 20 1931 and that any trespass will be prosecuted without regard to persons. The notice bears L K Lawrir.
Impounding notice issued by Belborn police on Main Road North listing multiple branded horses including a black mare with V over tar and a bay horse with a quarter circle and bar over B2. If not released, the animals will be sold at noon on South February. A PURDON, Poundkeeper
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