Key Stanthorpe events, 1935:
January 11:
• Fruit Fly Control: 300 growers attend meeting with F.W. Bullock, Minister for Agriculture
(Growers had contributed £300 a year to investigate the fruit fly, from 1922).
Promised that “no kid gloves should be used in carrying out regulations”.
December 4
• Stanthorpe Greets Royal Visitor, Prince Henry (Duke of Gloucestor) receives great reception and buntings. Welcomed to Wallangarra by the Premier, Forgan Smith.
7000 to greet Duke in Stanthorpe. Broadcast live over the wireless by 4GR; Lighthorse formed a bodyguard for the Duke on his way to Terrica.
• Town decorated with flags
March 12
• Granite Belt Highway. Stanthorpe via Eukey and Ballandean and Wallangarra to be gazetted as a main road.
• Soldiers Club to be passed to RSSILA
March 15
• “Heritage” Success of Mr. Charles Chauvel
April 5
• Soldier Settlement Report never released
May 3
• Site secured on Wallangarra Abattoirs – Inspection of Works (Photos A.W. Anderson).
Jennings side of the border fence five years ago and a start made on erection of works.
Anderson entered negotiation with directors and undertook to find capital and complete the
To be ready for operation in June. Fruitgrowers took interest as a possible source of fertiliser.
May 14
• Major Costello who had represented Carnarvon for 15 years was defeated by Labor
Candidates Paul Hilton as Labour Sweeps Polls – State election.
Advocacy of Motherhood Endowment Scheme – biggest landslide of any decade.
From 6 pm, people congratulated in front of the Border Post Office to follow the results of the
polling. A large blackboard was erected and a loudspeaker was listened to.
The first Labor
member for Carnarvon.
June 11
• The Country Party
June 25
• James Brunton Stephens (Centenary of birth) – brief biography.
September 6
• Trainjumpers – to the PM’s remarks that Queensland was just as prosperous as New South
Wales, he replied there were too many crocodiles and snakes in Queensland, now after living in Cooktown for 16 years, the train jumper is leaving the land of crocodiles and imprisoned for three days for travelling from Warwick to Stanthorpe.
• Paul Jerome Remigius Hilton Maiden Speech
• Cycle Club Formed
September 17
• Hospital Board votes 5-4 to call tenders for a new hospital. Existing building to be used for
nursers quarters and children’s wards. 1 d rate collects £1425.
• £1000 claim Herrod v Ferris. J. B. Ferris, Stanthorpe Shire Chairman sued for defamation by Ernest Herrod, secretary to for remarks made at a DSGC, the Board of Fruit Growers Federation of New South Wales, meeting.
October 15
• Wanted: An Aerodrome. Owner approached Shire Council with view to that body purchasing it; offer was turned down and land later changed hands.
October 25
• The Railways – Details of Local Traffic
• Wallangarra – 3733 passengers – £3045
• Stanthorpe 6934 passengers – £3427
November 1
Protest meeting against new hospital, 24 present
November 26
• Fruitgrowing Review of the Granite Belt (Department of Agriculture). Tonnage down due to severe hail damage, too much rain before the new year and drought (December 10, since. 8,000 cases exported compared to 48,000 the previous season. Thulimbah to Eukey hit and nearly total crop of The Summit destroyed).
November 26
• Unemployment relief – grant for work on rural school, St. Joseph’s and St. Catherines
