31 Aug 1939
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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 31, 1939
Page
1
Notice warns all persons trespassing on Mt Nanima that they will be prosecuted. The brief alert names Barton as the issuing authority and emphasizes legal action without respect to any considerations.
Homebush market saw 2504 head of cattle yarded and 39 000 sheep penned. Bullocks sold from 6 to 13 pounds, cows 4 to 9 10, best beef around 40, good quality 35, medium 40, others 27. Sheep ranged 14 to 21 for Withers, 12 to 19 for owes, and lambs 11 to 23 for lambs.
Commercial notes show tas potatoes priced 12 to 18 pounds, eggs new laid, cheese and honey ranges, maize 4 to 4 shillings, onions 20 to 25 pounds, and lucerne hay with varied rates. Also mentions chaff, nillett, and oats with fluctuating quotes in pounds and pence.
Britain weighs Hitler's second note as Berlin signals room for talks. Daladier summons emergency measures while France readies mobilization if terms sour. Mediation bids from Leopold and Wilhelmina surface as Poland denounces Slovak occupation. Russo German pact debated. Soviet troops bolster western frontiers. War talk spreads to Spain Italy and Spain vow neutrality, rationing begins in Rome as Italy girds for possible conflict.
Melbourne reports that Victoria’s noncooperation forces the Commonwealth to drop its wheat stabilisation plan. Efforts continue to secure a nationwide agreement and avert a broader disruption in the industry.
Premier Jozef Tiso declared that German troops occupied all of Slovakia and ordered Slovaks to receive them peacefully, marking a controversial assertion amid rising wartime influence and the struggle over sovereignty.
A petrol drum exploded in a transport waggon near Beaufort, destroying the wagon and goods valued between 21 600 and 2 000 pounds. The blast scattered contents in all directions and the transport were completely lost.
Melbourne officials announced there was no sabotage in the Garden Inland fire aboard the Australia yesterday. The outbreak was caused by an oil pipe bursting during fuelling, officials say.
Sir Robert Gordon died at Mosman yesterday aged T] years. He is survived as ninth baronet by John Gordon, an assistant engineer in the mechanical branch of the New South Wales Government Railways. He does not intend to retire.
Clive Joseph Bourke, the habitual criminal who escaped from Prince Henry Hospital on July 18, was recaptured at Waverley. He attempted another escape as detectives closed in, but was seized after scrambling over a fence. He bore a stomach wound from an operation, and investigators found a wireless set and various linen in his room. two other men were later arrested due to the recovered property.
Joseph Bourke re entered Prince Henry Hospital at Waverdale yesterday claiming his wife was ill and that he broke out to reach her for aid. He said he pretended to sleep while the warder briefly left, was ill for three weeks after escaping, and recovered due to his strong constitution.
The Emergency Committee of the Australian Council of Trades Union agrees the trade union movement should have an opportunity to express itself on the possibility of Australia becoming involved in hostilities.
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