10 Feb 1938
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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 10, 1938
Page
1
Sydney air service suspended from yesterday between Sydney and Broken Hill affecting daily flights. No further details on duration or reasons provided.
Proceedings list upcoming cricket fixtures with Goonoo, Kennard Park, Curra Creek, and Showground bands. Teams include Teachers, Methodists, Alluvials, and Banks with scheduled dates in February 1928 and March 1988.
Labour Daily directors opposed to the Lang section plan to depose James Tyrell from the managing director post and appoint E C McGrath. They propose increasing the board from eight to ten and plan a February meeting to appoint C Nelson and J F Ubill to take office, giving union leaders a likely six to four majority to control the paper.
The Town Club mixed doubles tournament was played in fair weather with 18 pairs. J Whitehouse and Miss E Everett won the final 6/5 against A W Spratt and Mrs K W Porter, as spectators watched a lively contest.
A motorcar collision near Comings Lah involves motor cyclist Billlie aged 26 or 28, suffering fractures to both legs and a probable fractured skull. He was admitted to hospital in a critical condition. The incident occurred Thursday as Donnald Mackay reported the scene from Central Australian air exploration duties.
Cephes Joan Rolls aged three was accidentally shot in the head at her parents home Bundanoon while playing with a loaded pen rifle her ten year old brother was nearby. She died within minutes and authorities suspect accidental discharge during a child’s play.
Ruby Tashan of Balomis and a male passerby leaped from the ferry and saved four men from the water. One man, initially reluctant to be saved, was briefly uncooperative before being brought to a reception house. The rescuer said she had never before dived headfirst into water.
At Homebush yarding reached 8200 cattle and 31,000 sheep with the market unchanged. Beef cattle ranged from 14s to 40s per head, with best quality around 85s, mid 30s, and inferior 26s. Lambs and wethers traded in similar steady ranges, with lambs around 4s per head and sheep prices showing minor variation.
Sydney Thursday reports Dr. Morris, Director General of Health, says infantile paralysis in New South Wales is unlikely to reach Victoria's scale. He notes current contract restrictions are sufficient, while un imposed ones are neither necessary nor desirable.
Fragmentary OCR lists commodities and prices including wheat at four shillings and four pence per bushel, potatoes, butter, cheese, eggs, millet, and hay. Garbled figures suggest bulk market quotes with various unit measures and cents or old currency notations.
Lord Nuffield Viscount Nuliald, a Brith car manufacturer, arrived in Sydney today by the Ovien. He expressed belief that Britain faced no hematin inpcmme fey Great Britain, ignored the stock exchange, and warned against slump booms. He said British diplomacy with England would avert war, but Britain would be ready if aggression came and noted growing friendship with Germany as a warning omen.
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