04 Dec 1933
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Newspaper
Inverell Times
Location
Inverell, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 04, 1933
Page
1
A Sydney Auckland radio link relayed messages from a long air voyage. The crew described flying at altitudes from 450 to 850 feet above cloud layers, speeds from 65 to 85 mph, and a calm sea below as they progressed over many hours. Final reception upon landing marked a successful voyage.
Mr M F Bruxner praised peers for backing rural districts and industry in the Upper House contests. He endorsed Mr H M Wraces of Gunnedah for the final ballot and urged Mr Wragge to stand for re election to secure long term North and North West representation and fifteen years in the Legislative Council.
Rev. J. Fisher at Guildford Memorial Congregational Church warned vice saps Australia’s manhood and deforms humanity. He said unemployment threatens youth, moral fibre weakens, and lives become embittered as Sydney experiences gambling, bevy, corruption, and all forms of vice.
Melbourne officials report numerous dismissals at the Victorian Railways amid a broad retrenchment. The Monday update notes additional workers being discharged as part of a department wide efficiency drive.
Monday sales at Homebush saw 390 head of cattle listed with varied grades and unchanged trends. Beef cattle ranged from £3 to £11 with best beef near top values, while cows averaged around £4 to £8. sheep warmth held firm with 21 009 head penned, wethers £0s to £1s, ewes to £1s and lambs around £8 to £9, reflecting steady demand.
L Jacney, Harvard philosopher, profiles the Commonwealth Bank and founder King O Malley. It notes a 112 launch, overdraft near £19,000, a £109 million balance sheet, £35 million profits, and praise for Denison Miller and Sir Herbert Gibson. The piece predicts balanced 1934 budgets and calls the bank the people's bank. It urges curbing foreign borrowing to fund needs.
The Sydney tin market quotes the price at a day’s high and low with no clear values provided. Traders monitor supply, demand and exchange movements influencing the metal’s spot value.
Sussex Street market prices listed with commodities including wheat bulk at 2.10 per bushel, Tasmanian potatoes 45 to 4, Victorian 4 to 4, Clarence River 2 6, eggs new laid 1d, honey 4d to 4d, maize 1.9 to 3 per bushel, onions, chaff wheaten 3 to 4 per cwt, lucerne 1d to 5, hay 6 to 8 per cwt.
Forecast calls for warm, mostly fine conditions in the northeast quarter. Elsewhere unsettled with variable rain and thunder and local heavy falls. North to northeast winds and coastal variability observed.
The Daily Telegraph Berlin correspondent reports persecution of Catholic clergy by the Nazi security police. One priest is jailed a month in a fortress for pulpit statements against the government, another five months for insulting Hitler and Goebbels while teaching in a private school. Three Bavarian priests are detained on charges of spreading atrocity reports.
In Cork on Saturday night the Blue Shirts and Republicans clashed injuring several. A police baton charge created a siege state as Blue Shirt leaders General O Duffy and former ministers Blythe Cronin attended a march, with Cronin defying police and Blythe resisting arrest amid efforts to suppress free speech. The town was isolated by cut wires and felled trees as troops cleared the route for order.
Archbishop Kelly in a pastoral letter urges modesty and piety for women and chastity for all. He condemns shameless conduct as leading to infidelity and degr adation, criticizes impure marriages, and calls for prayers to prevent such contracts while aiming to save the parties involved.
Karl Radek in Pravda attacks the League of Nations disarmament conference as a house of cards. He says Great Powers try to rebuild with the Four-Power Pacts, yet that effort also collapses. Germany’s withdrawal signals a shift to conferences and a new arms race.
In Brisbane, Queensland scored 349 and Victoria, replying, stood at 314 for three after day one with Brew and Bromley among top scorers. Victoria faces further play as Bromley, Fleetwood-Smith and Alexander lead a tense chase while Queensland's bowling tightens on the field.
Mr. M. Sawtell speaking at the Central Methodist Mission argued most native white friction stems from breaches of the native moral code. He warned that punishments for natives who break the code are death, while whites are government protected. He noted a planned Punitive expedition to Caledon Bay was scrapped due to public opinion. The natives’ only crime, he said, was defending their womenfolk.
Edward Sims, 28, from the La Perouse aboriginal reserve, walked to Coast Hospital Saturday with a severely injured left forearm and injuries on both sides after a dispute. An Aboriginal man was arrested and charged with malicious wounding Sims, who is described as a quarter-caste living near the reserve. He said the incident followed an argument.
Flood waters have penetrated the convent grounds at Charleville and spread to nearby cottages. A mailman attempted to row the mile to reach the Warrego River. Record floods are feared with many grassers running short of rations in the Charleville area.
Premier Stevens announced in Sydney that in response to the Federal Government imposing a flour tax of £45 from December 1 he will introduce a short bill in Parliament to remove the State flour tax of 30 on December 1. He said the federal levy would ban NSW trade and raise bread prices, while NSW would gain about £2 15s from production costs.
A motor car plunged from a cliff into the harbor 290 feet below at Lyttleton New Zealand killing passenger Mrs Jessie Harris and injuring two boys while the driver escaped. The accident occurred Monday.
A dance at St Marys Hall Echuca Saturday night erupted into a fracas during which laborer Chadwick died after a man attacked him with a razor. Deep cuts injured his face and jaw and an ear was nearly severed. Police fired four shots at the assailant, who escaped.
Detectives probe a blast on the Tempe East Hills line near Kingsgrove after pelignite placed on the track exploded as the train passed. Several derailment attempts have occurred on this line recently. A note on a local grocer’s ad promotes a big selection of goods.
Sir Horace Rumbold the British ambassador in Berlin says he does not foresee another European war soon. He dismisses war talk in the European press as mischievous and argues confidence rather than armament buildup is the better insurance. He questions funding for large arms while noting tensions in Indo Japanese trade and tariffs as potential solutions.
The Soviet ice breaker Cheluskin is trapped north-west of the Bering Strait as ice floes push it northward. Commander warns of doom unless a northwest current opens the polar sea. Stores may last to spring. Cheluskin had earlier gone to aid a wintering party on Wrangel Island.
Detectives traced the Bondi cat burglar for some time. They tailed a woman to a Glebe house and arrested a man found asleep in bed. Tennis racquets clothing and jewellery allegedly stolen from Bondi were found nearby. He faces breaking and entering charges.
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