GENERAL CABLES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19035, 12 June 1924, Page 10

GENERAL CABLES

An extraordinary outrage is reported from Vasey’s training stables at Doncaster. The stable doors were deliberately opened at midnight, and 14 valuable racehorses driven out and stampeded throughout the night. Four were seriously injured. Mr. Peter Clarke MacFarlane a noted American theologian author and playwright committed suicide to escape the sufferings of diabetes. A seaplane, piloted by Flight-Lieu-tenant Maclntyre, flew from Melbourne to Sydney in six hours 37 minutes, -t an average speed of 90 miles per Kour. The machine returns shortly, and will then be placed in the museum as the first 'plane to fly round Australia. Commenting on the fact that although fifty-two Barnardo boys have arrived at Melbourne, all but one are proceeding to* Sydney, the Superintendent of State Immigration said the policy of Victoria was to obtain adult migrants, who could earn a living, and not young boys who would be partly dependant on the State or private people. There were no arrangements under which people who could not wholly support themselves could be introduced to the State. The chief architect of the Federal Public Works and Railway Department. giving evidence before the Public Works Committee, said that Parliament would be able to meet at Canberra in May or June, 1926. Permanent Commonwealth offices would not be completed till 1929, but provision was being made to house 150 to 160 members of the staff. Between 60 and 70 houses would also be built.