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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 16, 1932
Page
1
Warning by D H Barton that any person found trespassing on Mi Nanima estate will be prosecuted without respect to person. Also warning by B C Barton that all trespassers will be prosecuted without regard to persons.
The Johnny Walker Cup controversy pits Wellington Club against Yeoval and Group 15 over first-match rights. Wellington refuses to surrender the cup while awaiting Group decisions, while Kosciusko and Kenesmike Cup plans shift. Dubbo and Yeoval relations, plus possible home and away arrangements, frame a tense rugby league stalemate with trophies in play.
Wallington League chief Mr. D Walker, in Sydney, held a lengthy interview with the head body's executives about the Johnny Walker Cup. No decisions emerged on game preferences, and the usual weekly meeting was postponed. Wellington has accepted Parkes’ invitation to visit. Parker will travel to Wellington later.
Perth reports the missing German seaplane is found on a beach about one hundred miles from Drysdale River Mission Station. The plane is above high water mark with alleged murder claims by hostile natives, which authorities say require confirmation. Police plan a scene visit as Crystaly boys recall seeing two white men retreat ashore and killed by blacks.
In Sydney on Thursday the distribution of the fee and pre e fe es in the Goulburn electorate led to the defeat of the Lang Government's former Minister for Lands. The final counts show Loughlin 6489 votes and Tully 5569.
Mr 88 Cohen president of the Kindergarten Union argues teachers who avow Communist beliefs should be purged from public service. He compares this to banning sectional classes that he says spread Soviet propaganda to the young.
Mrs Gladys Brownfield and her two children Bruce and Pat Rica aged 9 and 3 were burnt to death when their Heatherton home in Victoria caught fire this morning. Irwin Brownfield husband rushed toward the blaze as flames and smoke engulfed the house. fire brigade arrived too late to save them, the building reduced to charred debris with the bodies recovered.
Prices quoted at the Sydney produce avenues cover a range of staples. Potatoes Tasmanian 5/6 to 6/6 per bag prices vary by quality. butter 12/0. cheese 9d to 9d. honey and oats listed. onions 20/ to 22/. chaff and wheaten figures shown. other items include meat and produce with scattered figures in shillings and pence.
Former Education Minister in the Lang Ministry Mr Davies won the Ilawarra seat by 42 votes over U S P candidate Mr Cantwell. Final figures show Davies 7300 and Cantwell 7348.
Doctor Holloway testified in the Moxley trial that no epileptic fits or brain deterioration were evident. He stated a venereal infection could affect the brain and noted X rays showing foreign matter, while the judge asked about signs of brain deterioration or epilepsy. The case proceeds.
Application to set aside a writ against Windeyer and Brownhill for £10,000 damages arising from Windeyer’s election speech, later published by Brownhill in the Rathuret Times on June 4. Grounds: writ directed at two defendants on different dates. adjourned to tomorrow.
At Melbourne Trades Hall station listeners were annoyed by Mr P Edmonds, secretary of the Teachers Industrial Union, delivering a talk on the value of the strike to the Labor movement. The announcer suspended the address after a telephone call to management.
Melbourne police pursuing a bigamy case against Harold Tumes Russell after questioning him in connection with the drowning of Mrs. Russell and her two sons at Sunshine during a weekend incident.
The Industrial Commission is reconstituted and will hear claims from employers and employees. A key issue expected is a request to reevaluate the standard of living.
D B Thomson exchanges country hotel property for farming or grazing use valued at £5000 unencumbered. Eleven cottages at Dubbo valued £5000 unencumbered. W B House in Dubbo eight rooms with three acres valued £1100 unencumbered for small farm. Six flats at Coogee Beach valued £6000 with £4000 equity for country property. New brick cottage at Lane Cove valued £2600 with £1400 equity for farming property.
The stock market reports 2320 cattle yarded at Homebush with bullocks 85 to 10/10/0, cows 24 to 0, best beef 28/0, medium 22/0, inferior 20/0, and 118,000 sheep penned. Prime lambs market unmoved, overall weaker except for other classes. Wothers 7/0 to 1/ewes 6/0 to 14/0, lambs 6/0 to 15/0, shorn sheep 4/0 to 10/0.
Cloudy with showers in southern districts and along slopes and tablelands. Heavy falls expected on southern highlands. Elsewhere fine. Cold with frost and fog inland. Fresh to strong squally winds, gradually moderating from the west to the north. Snow and southern Alps mentioned.
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