Key events that occurred in 1932, Stanthorpe:
January 22
• Factory to treat 8000 rabbits a day being built at Texas.
• Station homes in the Stanthorpe District
March 4
• Growers protest drop in tobacco import duty to 3
March 18
• The Summit Hall destroyed by fire
April 22
• St. Joseph’s Convent – Opening and Blessing
April 15
• Stanthorpe Revisited – Impressions of Dr. Elwell Texas and its Progress
• The Border Post to begin biweekly publication
May 31
• Speech by Paul Hilton
June 14
• The State That Jack Wrecked
June 21
• Record cold, heavy frosts
July 29
• Massey Harris tractor demonstrated at Pagets Orchard
August 5
• Stanthorpe Shire Council applied for £8000 to seal Maryland Street from Carnarvon Bridge to Corundum Street
August 16
• Obituary, William Charles Wilmot
August 22
• Opening of The New Summit Hall, 70 feet long, 50 feet wide, pitch of the roof is 27 degrees
September 13
• Fred Thorpe Appointed Ambulance Superintendent
• Stanthorpe Hospital: Will it Go on the rates public meeting.
(Under the Hospital Act of 1923, hospitals that could not be funded by subscription will be maintained by the government and Shire Council)
Cost of running the hospital is £400 a month – once before Council donated £400 and State Government paid a subsidy in advance. Nurses quarter and maternity ward built for £4900 from Golden Casket funds.
£5000 required each year.
Proposed that any contributor of £3/3 would be entitled to two weeks free medical treatment a year
The population of the Shire 6-7000 – if 1000 paid £3/3 would have all the money needed
October 7
• Visit of the Governor, Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, and Lady Wilson
October 21
• Stanthorpe Soldiers Memorial recalls the heated controversy over location and form.
Flowers are growing around the memorial. The ground around the memorial has been levelled off as far as the rocks would allow, flower beds have been made and where there was no soil it has been brought there and today, flowers are growing around the Memorial where previously there was nothing but stone. Ornamental trees have been planted.
• Obituary, Joseph Pierpoint
October 23
• Band played at the memorial. The Governor described it as the most practical he has seen.
