TERRY’S BREWERY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 191, 27 May 1946, Page 3

TERRY’S BREWERY

Australian Topics

POSSIBLE PURCHASE BY SOLDIERS’ LEAGUE COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 11.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The State Council of the Returned Soldiers’ League decided unanimously to negotiate with Terry’s Brewery at Lithgow for the brewery’s entire output to be supplied to league organisations. The Returned Soldiers’ League is considering buying the brewery. The weekly output of the brewery is 5000 gallons. A committee of five lias been ap pointed to negotiate with the brewery for the purchase of beer, and to examine the possibilities of buying the brewery. * * * * The man who claims to have cai> tured Hermann Goeriug will marry in Brisbane to-morrow within 24 hours oi the arrival of the bride ship Mariposa. He is Robert A. Cameron, aged 40, a former United States Army engineers’ intelligence officer, and bolder of the Croix de Guerre with Palms and a Bronze medal.

The bride will be Mademoiselle Renee Renault, aged 38, a Parisian dramatic actress and a member of an automobile family.

Cameron was in charge of the task force which occupied the mountain area of Berchtesgaden. When in quarters in Martin Bormann’s home, lie was approached by a negotiator for “a high Nazi official,” who turned out to be Goering. / * . *4 * * *

The Minister for the Interior, Mi Johnson, will be head of the “Anzac Agency of the Imperial War Graves Commission in the Pacific area,” which will assist the commission in the South Pacific. ,

Mr J. B. Chifley announced that the agency would have an adequate staff, and that the principal officers would be the secretary-general, nominated by the Australian Government and assistant secretary-general, nominated by New Zealand.

The offices would be in Melbourne. The agency would be responsible for the construction and maintenance .of the graves of all Avar dead of both wars from every part of his Maresty’s Dominions within its grea.

Drifting Trawler Located After being adrift for five days in the Tasman, the TraAvler Pahau was picked up again late yesterday by the New Zealand Government steamer Matai. The drifting vessel was sighted on Saturday afternoon by an R.A.A.F. Catalina flying-boat, but was not in the position indicated by the plane when the Matai came up. Another Catalina Avhich was sent out yesterday found the trawler 40 miles from the Matai and about 100 miles east of Port Macquarie. The Matai radioed Sydney at 10.15 p.m. yesterday that she had picked up the tow and was continuing to Sydney. * * * * * An additional annual grant of £50,000 made to the University of Sydney by the State Government since 1942 has been withdrawn this year. The Chancellor of the University, Sir Chares Bickerton Blackburn, said that the grant had been withdrawn in spite of the assurance of the Minister of Education last year that it would be continued. The Government’s decision has seriously upset the financial calculations of the university, particularly plans for increases in staff salaries. * * * * 5k “The present position of the Northern territory is hopeless,” said the retiring administrator, Mr C. L. A. Abbott, wbo arrived yesterday by air from. Darwin. “It is anchored by a Government Department Avhich isi completely absorbed in Canberra affairs. The only Avay the territory can advance is by giving a considerable measure of self-government.” The position in Darwin in particular was very confused, he continued. .Although the Darwin Lands Acquisition Act was passed by the Federal Government early in 1945,. the Government so far had, not evolved a . policy on land in Darwin. Former residents and landOAvners Avere confused and bewildered, and were expressing their irritation.