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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 26, 1925
Page
3
Paul and Marks announce they have taken over the Buick Service Station and Garage and will undertake all classes of repairs for all makes of cars at reasonable prices. They invite public and car owners to give them a trial for satisfaction.
An editorial in the Wellington Times argues for Wellington to become a major manufacturing center. It cites local resources limestone iron ore wheat and wool, a favorable climate and water supply, and proximity to markets. The piece urges local energy to attract capital and notes Ford’s potential plant and nearby sites. It warns of drift to Sydney and calls for coordinated industrial growth over the next two decades.
In London the coroner's court heard that Stanley Russell aged 21 of Beltham road Fulham died accidentally from exhaust gas fumes in his employer's Bayswater garage. His parents reported a premonition after their son failed to return home, with a strong sense of dread and a night time concern before finding him dead. The coroner urged careful ventilation of garages.
On a Marrickville riverbank, a half-bred dingo attacked a champion fox killer dog owned by Cuthbert Thew of Ayletowe visiting relatives. The dog suffered horrifying wounds and blindness before dying despite care, shocking Thew who valued the canine highly.
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany offers for sale this autumn about 2000 grams of new Yeoman 1 wheat bred by R A Bille of Cambridge. The price is 86 shillings per cwt cash. Trials at Hammbridge and other UK centres show Yeoman 1 to be superior to the older Yeoman wheat, with better milling quality and adaptability to medium and heavy soils, especially in eastern, midland, and southern England.
Readable note touts Coo Williamson offering ice cream as the best around. Brief spelling quirks aside, the local pitch invites residents to sample the flavors at Williamson’s shop.
Sir Berkeley Moynihan told the Belon Masters Association that early cancer operation offers cure in many cases. He urged laboratories worldwide to uncover causes, so prevention and timely surgery can erase cancer locally. He warned access to the disease in its local stage is the profession’s duty to educate the public.
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