17 Jan 1931
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Newspaper
Port Pirie Recorder
Location
Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 17, 1931
Page
1
Today’s card lists district cricket fixtures and club events across multiple associations. Memor o versus Solomontown opens the schedule, with Smellers facing Railways and diverse clubs like Recorder Guild Imperials Ellendale and Haystack plus ladies and miscellaneous matches set for the day.
Riadyu Gold faces St Mark's at 81 on Mark's courts in a Bluey YALCA event.
The Port Pirie Cycle Club will conduct a 15 mile road race today with handicaps listed for riders E Whitehead S, A Stacey 20, C Hart, K Synnett 30, V W Govan 40, C Peneilly, and others.
Horse names and weights from the 1 20 third class plate divisions at Gawler. listing includes Jagotong Greentol En chantment Home Graturity Sonia Seal Cheery Ribbons SL Crook Marshal Peahill Hunged Brier Rose Wonder Lass Star Gun Two Stroke Monitrix Last Gun Acte Shot Kingetol Lady Lavadierra Bihornway Black Flag Argosy Lad Oaks etc. Includes Maiden Two Year Old Handicap five furlongs with Mis Bier Mise Boa and others, plus Summer Handicap and Jumpers Plate Handicaps with Water Pistol and Greek Gift competing. Also First Class Plate Handicaps with Steel Guitar Bon Anton Greenhide and Thracian Queen among entries.
Caulfield Today reports Melbourne racegoers will have a Gaul fel meeting with selections by Matthew Arn including Hawthorn Herd Sobranevil and other races. In a separate item James Devine was discharged after his wife Matilda Devine returned from England and refused to testify against him.
Fragmentary Australian notes describe distributions and dates related to Joang ort 8, mentioning Melbourne and Londag. The text is garbled but suggests small changes in amounts and a focus on timing events.
In hot weather the match began with a strong Australian innings. Bradman remained not out on 223 while Ponsford added 199 and Kippar 24 to reach 428 at stumps. Thaero was dismissed early, Kippar aided Bradman as the partnership grew, and Woodfull won the toss as play continued on an even wicket.
An earthquake battered Mexico City and Oaxaca causing dozens dead and many injured. Reports describe shattered buildings, ruined homes, and disrupted telegraph lines as authorities scramble to aid stricken districts. Government measures are ordered and relief convoys move toward affected zones.
Prime Minister Scullin rejects issuing bank notes for public works and insists loans from savings should fund projects. He cautions that relying on bank credit is temporary and would be disastrous for long term policy. Trades Hall officials express disappointment and report confusion over inflation schemes.
In Melbourne, Sir Robert Gibson explains a new exchange rate of £1 equals 125 and 10 per £100 selling rate to £1 25 10d for London funds. He says the move aims to mobilise funds for London inter ests while banks incur new risks, not profits, and urges Australians to consider curbing overseas spending until Australia improved finances.
United Service reports in Calcutta that Bombay’s work stoppage protest disrupts mills workshops markets and shops in response to Sholapur rioters. Police fire on crowds in Ahmedabad while riots spread. Reports claim dozens injured and concerns over Yeravadi jail conditions and Gandhi’s health.
A night attack by about 50 rebels at a Burma railway station in Zibyugon ends with the murder of Mr Day, the Bengwt station master, after the assailants rob him and his wife pleads for mercy. The rebels cut the wires and flee as authorities arrive at dawn.
London dispatch reports the South Wales coal strike of 140000 miners settled. Agreement calls for seven and a half hour underground shifts and resumption of work next Monday. Majority supports the terms, with Cardiff to vote on the agreement.
Adelaide reports a new gold reef near Godnadatta with about twenty claims staked. Early reports indicate two reefs found and prospecting underway as investors rush to the site.
A masked robber stole more than £500 from the pay roll at James Marsh and Sons cannister factory in North Melbourne. He escaped in a waiting motor car after hiding in the storeroom and slipping out when workers went to lunch. Investigators identified the car as a Falke make.
The ACT.U emergency executive led by President WJ Duggan and Secretary C Crofts will convene a full ACT.U committee in Sydney at month end to seek a common economic policy for all Australian unions. In parallel, the Australian Workers Union convention in Sydney will align with ACT.U to pursue closer cooperation for a united political and industrial policy.
Adelaide court heard Crown evidence in the Kumorna murder case against Frances Eileen Dall a 14 year old accused. Her counsel argued there was no case without proof of a confession. Cross examination questioned statements attributed to Leslie Shilbeck who faces a separate murder charge.
A local Pirie pamphleteer scene dismisses Communists and Leninist talk as idle theatrics. Nine pamphleteers targeted workers with demands like 40 hour weeks and full pay during unemployment, but the crowd viewed the rhetoric as mockery and the movement as entertainment rather than a real force.
Fragmentary report notes a rugby player, age around 19, involved in a parade incident. Details are unclear due to damaged copy, with possible references to a town event, a misdirected fight or breach, and unspecified authorities or locations.
Eleven men charged with taking part in a riot were committed for trial at the Adelaide Felice Court. The prosecutor opposed bail citing risk of further unrest. Sabine, S.M. said it was his duty to refuse bail. Other charges including grievous bodily harm were withdrawn.
Commercial bodies push a debt arrangement to aid South Australian farmers with the aim of enabling them to carry on. A draft of the scheme was shown at a major meeting of primary producers and financial interests and will be discussed by a special committee in Adelaide on Monday.
Rev D G Longhattam will conduct the morning service at Central Mission Ghuret. Evening topic Humanity of Jesus by Rev Norman Eade MA. Miss Greta Footner sings Gods Messenger and the choir performs Come, Winds of God Westenholm. Next Sunday Grand View by Rev Frank Lode MA President General of the Methodist Church of Australasia. Mrs L Villebol will conduct Sunday morning with Miss Gindyx Taylor singing. Mr Murray Prime to preach at evening services.
The Solomontown Church renovation is nearly done and Sunday services will be held there with Rev. F Ny French preaching in the morning. Miss White will render an anthem, and the Risdon Park service will be led by Rev. Norman Latte MLA in the morning and Rev. U G Longhattem L Th in the evening with the anthem Fear Not. Afternoon services at Noppeeby and Broad Crook proceed as usual, and at Warnertown Stee Will be conducted by Mrs Ongers in the evening. Next Sunday the church reopens with Rev Frank Laude MA preaching in the morning and Rev P A Preach in the evening, with special choir singing at both services.
Morning services led by W J Odgepsats and J L Assy with a special nature and a baptismal style. Evening service led by A R Leonard featuring anthem Thy Shall Mount Up With Wings as an Eagle. About 20 members move from Innter Endeavor to Intermediate Society. a Young People's Society forms under Bradley Clark. Rev J L Asser conducts the evening warring. Gentral Baptist Bible Class members assist.
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