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Newspaper
Goulburn Evening Penny Post
Location
Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 19, 1929
Page
2
Weather forecast notes cloudy conditions to 2 p.m. tomorrow across southern border districts and southern slopes with scattered showers. Elsewhere fine with some frosts on tablelands. Winds variable, chiefly westerly.
The Crockwell potato growers are praised for a wise move toward organization in marketing. The piece argues that primary producers need orderly markets to obtain fair value, avoiding price gambles driven by speculators. Minister Thorby is commended for supporting cooperative marketing to benefit producers, merchants, and consumers.
Mrs Kercher of Goulburn visits her mother Mrs Gann of Taraga. Mr John Brander, long time Goulburn Highland Society member, elected an honorary Life member at the annual meeting. Mr George Cooke of Lower Born is admitted to Sister Private Hospital in slightly improved condition after suffering horns. At Crookwell potato growers meeting Minister for Agriculture H Thorby awarded Mr Dan Marries a departmental certificate of merit for his K A B championship potato growing victory by Mr Harries.
Racing results from Ascot and Beaulta with multiple divisions and winners. Pacaport Ramondale All Pop led 14.1 handicap. Ballycan Datchlight Minny Noble won first stakes division. Apple Sauce Gay Glory Allanah won second division. Orient Dove Lady Palm Fort Silk dead heat in Flying Handicap. Wolarvale Amionze Heal Emblem won third division. Prices include Orient Dove 10 to 1 and Lady Palm 7 to 1.
Bir Thomas Lipton accepts the New York Yacht Club challenge for the America Cup race to be held off Newport Rhode Island starting September 3 2020. The contest will be a best three out of five series.
Goulburn District and C John of ied hospitala and St Andrew's Church Building Fund donate £5 5s each. A remarkable accident hurled two men from unloading trucks near Too woomba Qld injuring them as legs were severed. A writ seeks £2,400 damages in Leeton case. Rail line blocked near Molkrave after a shunter jumped rails. Broadcast control debate returns to Adelaide. A judge reports £13 robbed from his room. Crimes include a medical practitioner jailed for two years. Port Kembla rail progress described with Robertson station nearing completion.
The Tasmanian Flood Relief Fund, organized by the Presbyterian Ladies College students, raised funds through an entertainment event with refreshments. Proceeds and admission contributions support flood victims in Tasmania, providing a model for charitable support amid disaster.
In March last, Foony Grom of Mar ekville obtained a decree nisi for dissolution of marriage from Ted Raphael Groot a wool buyer on grounds of desertion and adultery with Miss Aston. Miss Aston answered with a demurrer arguing no valid cause of action for a wife against her husband’s adultery and that such a claim was abolished by the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1899. The case goes to the Fall Court at its next sittings.
Cold windy weather battered Goulburn with heavy rain at lunch and again later. Official tallies show 26 points of rain in Goulburn, Crookwell 6, Gunning 35, others: Bowning 44, Voss 4, Taralga 16, Bongendore 5. Overnight low 3 degrees, high 60.
The first Eng land vs South Africa test of the season was drawn in London after England declared at 245 in their first innings and 64 in the second, with South Africa replying to 258 and 151 in two innings. Mitchell and Catterall starred for England, while South Africa’s batsmen built solid partnerships despite the late acceleration.
General Dawes, new American Ambassador to Great Britain, says the United States seeks world peace by reducing naval forces. He cites the Kellogg Briand pact as key to international talks and supports a naval program totaling 260 million dollars, with power to suspend it if a broader agreement is reached.
riot at Durban ends in deaths and mass arrests as natives and whites clash after a midday skirmish. police suffer multiple casualties and injuries while authorities detain about a hundred, amid reports of organized native resistance and white retaliation.
South Africa's cabinet due to be announced tomorrow will include Col Creaell as Defence Minister, Mr Sempoon as Posts Minister, Dr Malan reappointed Interior Minister, Mr Robler Lands Minister, Mr Havenga Finance Minister, Mr Beyers Mines Minister, Mr Kemp Agriculture Minister, and C Malan Railways Minister. Pirow reportedly takes Justice, while ex-Speaker Jansen declined the post from Germany.
Rome reports the King of Italy has created Eignor Marconian hereditary Marquia. Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, conducted flat experiments in Bologna and in 1488 established wireless communication between France and England across the Channel. Born Bologna April 36, 1874, his Irish mother He ty was a senator of Italy.
Amid Channel disaster coverage, seven bodies are recovered including A F Smith of Melbourne and three women still missing. The Air Board plans a formal investigation while wreckage near Dunceness shows the cause as an engine shaft break and the craft overturning on impact, trapping passengers.
President Hoover faces concern over enforcement of Prohibition amid clashes at borders and bootlegging fears. A constable is jailed for murder over a liquor discovery, a sheriff in danger from mob anger, and cross border skirmishes with Canadian coast guard fire reported. Hoover urges restraint and Treasury contact to curb misuse of border patrol claims.
The French Cabinet backs reparations experts and plans a mid July vote on allocation. France would pay no more to the Allies than it receives from Germany, with the plan subject to final ratification by all powers.
In Calcutta on Tuesday reports say heavy floods swept Assam after a severe break in the river. In the Sheba district half the houses were washed away and villagers climbed trees to escape. Boats rescued survivors amid fears of a bigger loss of life.
Australian heavyweight George Cook defeated Johnny Risko of Cleveland by a foul in the fifth round of a scheduled 15 round bout. The result fuels Cook’s potential substitution for Maloney and possible further clashes with Heeney in Philadelphia on June 24 and with Young Birbiing in Kansas City on July 18.
A terse notice credits the Fremantle service and other special sources in information dissemination for overseas intelligence material. It states rights are reserved and the compilation is published in Australia and New Zealand with full attribution.
News from Murchison and surrounding districts reports 15 deaths after the N Z earthquake, with Murchison in ruin. Landslides and floods overwhelmed farms and bridges as rivers formed a threat, while miners and residents fled or were entombed. Communications broken and roads flooded hinder rescue efforts.
Market reporter notes no marked change in sheep prices at Goulburn fat stock sale. Demand remains steady though not brisk, with attractive lines selling well. Most sheep yardage averages with some top quality wethers and good fat lamb sales, while overall turnout remains light.
Merchandise and livestock sales from Meéerine and other vendors detail prices for merino and crossbred ewes, lambs, and various dairy and riding stock. Records show multiple consignors including Flynn and Co, Liewellyn, Voxiwl, and Gray and Lone with prices ranging from 10 to 40 shillings per head and assorted lot sizes.
A motor cycle and a sidecar collided on Braidwood Road morning, sending rider Micharda 24 to hospital with a large contusion in the right groin and shock. The sidecar was loaded with paint, splashing the ground, and the ambulance conveyed him to Goulburn District Hospital for treatment.
Mrs Selma Turner died in Balmain Hospital from an unexplained illness. She could not describe her symptoms, baffling doctors. A head injury from a prop a few weeks earlier is being considered unlikely the cause. A post mortem examination is planned.
Yarding exceeds a hundred head as prices stay firm. Prime lots sold amid brisk trading while westmaniak and Goulburn buyers show interest. Fresh quotations and assorted primes, flats, cows and calves feature in a detailed sales ledger from local agents.
Felith Mithell alias Ada Metiinness was fined £247 at Central Police Court on a cocaine possession charge. Detectives traced drugs to her Margrav e Street home after a June 7 raid. a police sergeant testified the defendant’s pocket disclosed the contraband. The case included forged notes and a separate charge of keeping a house of bad repute. An appeal was noted by counsel Mr. Young.
Bertie Kaye was committed for trial on a charge of buying assaulted W. B. Murray on the Tumut road on July 13 with intent to rob him. Murray described the struggle, pepper was thrown in his eyes, and Kaye fled after the car halted a few hundred yards from the scene. Constable Farrington stated Kaye was brought to Gundagal station and made a statement.
At a Crookwell gathering, Mr Thorby and local producers hailed the butter factory, noting its impact on regional farming. Speakers urged closer cooperation between farms and railways to expand production, improve transport and reduce costs, with praise for Crookwell’s industry and leadership.
Fragmentary text proposes a comparison of Brout audience heat output to an electric railer tor, mentioning Io and congregation. Details are garbled and no clear event, person, or organization is identifiable.
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