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“SHOT FOB, SPORT BY WHITE MEN.” BRISBANE, May 13. "I can prove by Goverrimenfc records that these poor people have been, shot for sport by white men.” said the Rev. G. K. Kirke, in introducing the report of the commit tee on missions to aborigines at the Queensland Presbyterian Assembly to-day. “There has been a suggestion that one of the mission stations might have to he closed,” ho added, .“but it is not merely a cpicstio.s of maintaining ;>. mission station in North Queensland. It is a national matter which concerns the whole of the Commonwealth, because aborigines have been battered and kicked and shot at for sport.” 'MAN BLOWN TO PIECES. BLASTING' IN MINE. . KALGOORLIE (W.A.). May 13. Alfred ' James Head, married, 3lyears of age, was blown to pieces this afternoon when lie was working on the 280013, . level of the Chaffer’s mine, at the 1050 slope. About I ojelock Jthp'.'n faces were lived, intiding sft. in depth. ■ The given, and as Bead, in mpany with Adam Allen, a boggor, Peel, machine-man, toward the safety /.one, first -shot exploded. The concussion threw Bead against the wall of the level, - and Iris - body apparently rebounded into the wiimc, where he was blown to, pieces. Allen and Peel were onTy slightly injured. Head leaves a wife and two young children.
A RABBIT RECORD. AUSTRALIAN r'KOt s BY MILLIONS. MELBOURNE, May IS. A report prepared for the Minis, ter for Commerce (Mr. Stewart) show s that the export of froren rabbits and hare s from Australia •’ this! season will be a record, and that the value of shipments for the ■-first nine months of this financial year is considerably higher than any full year’s shipments during the past. If) years. , From July J, 19,32, to March 31. 1933, the number of pairs sent abroad was 9,715.000, gained at £517,573.- compared 'with 6,4573000 pairs, valued at £391,258 for the corresponding period of 1931-32,. '
CHILLED BEEF JOURNEY FROM QUEENSLAND JUST 'TOO LONG. - 7. ' MELBOURNE, May 18. A .report received hv file Council of Scientific' and Industrial Research Irom \il s ' laboratory in ’ Brisbane, where experiments .awWin progress, rlatgs ; ’that, an 1 chilled beef ea tl be .kept.- satisfactorily hi a .temperature of 30 degree's for -only approximately IS days,- trade between Queensland anil Great- Britain does not seem pro el ion l at. present. Y
“There are, however,” the report adds, “distinct, possibilities that, live methods evolved at the laboratory ea-n he utilised for Transport of chilled' .beef .from AYyndham (Western Australia) to Great Britain, when -12 to -14 days would elapse from slaughtering to marketing.’-
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11956, 29 May 1933, Page 2
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