Ku-ring-gai Clippings
Being a collection of 19th and 20th century newspaper articles with a connection to the Municipality of Ku-ring-gai.
Source: The National Library of Australia
Website: http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
Compiled by: R. N. Whitaker
e -mail: whitsend1@optusnet.com.au
DUST STORMS AND FIRES IN NSW
SYDNEY, Sun 10th December 1944 – The Argus
Dense dust storms, accompanied by high temperatures, raged over most of New South Wales at the weekend. Bush fires in the Blue Mountains destroyed seven cottages, a dairy, a store, look- outs, and kiosks. Nineteen houses were destroyed in the Richmond district and four near Gosford.
A man and a woman aged 80 were burned to death in the fires. They were J. H. Barnes, who was burned in a paddock at Kurrajong, and . Miss Irene Cavanagh, who was trapped in a house at Oswald.
Some relief from the heat is forecast for tomorrow.
Sydney was swept by a violent westerly gale. The maximum wind velocity recorded at the Weather Bureau was 63 mph, but one gust at Richmond reached 76 mph.
The maximum temperature in Sydney today was 91deg, compared with 91.5deg yesterday. Clouds of dust carried by the wind from inland districts almost blotted out the sun at times.
Metropolitan fire brigades answered more than 150 calls. The task of extinguishing outbreaks was made more difficult by the gale.
Forty crippled children were evacuated from the Margaret Reid Orthopaedic Hospital, St Ives, today, when bush fires threatened houses near by.
They were taken in cars, ambulances, and service trucks to the Pymble Presbyterian Church hall.
Fires burnt all the afternoon on a broad sweep west of the Hassall Park area at St Ives. Mr W. T. Calley's home was the only one destroyed. Houses in Pittwater Rd north of the park were threatened, and soldiers removed furniture to the roadside.
CHANGE IN WIND PREVENTS SPREAD OF BUSHFIRES - Widespread Damage
A change in the wind today providently saved large areas of the State from bush fires. During the early morning a strong westerly fanned the blaze in most areas, but an easterly in the afternoon blew the flames back over the burnt out areas and by to-night most of the outbreaks were under control.
The latest reports from Springwood indicated that the fires in that area are under control, a change of wind saving many localities.
The damage between "Woy Woy and Wyong is estimated at more than £75,000.
The Thornleigh brickyards were threatened, but civilians managed to cheek the advance of the flames.
SENT TO AN ASYLUM - THE CASE OF BROWN
Sydney, April 27 1914
Thomas Edwin Brown, orchadist of St. Ives, who was recently acquitted at the Criminal Court, on a charge of having murdered Sergeant Hickey, at St. Ives, was today ordered to be detained in an asylum. Notice of appeal was given.
Brown was tried three times. On the first occasion the jury disagreed, and on, the second he was found guilty, and sentenced to death. The High Court quashed the conviction, and at the new trial he was acquitted. The police immediately rearrested him on charge that he was insane.
TROD ON DEATH ADDER - Man's Lucky Escape in Bush
SYDNEY, Wednesday 12th February 1936 – The Canberra Times
While R. E. Patterson was walking in the bush near St. Ives yesterday, he trod on the head of a death adder 32 inches long. He sprang away,' narrowly missing a bite from the reptile.
Referring to the incident, Patterson said that what saved him was that he had practically his full 12 stone weight on the snake's head. The adder was finally killed by a companion of Patterson.
Four young were found in its body. The death adder was stated by the museum authorities to be one of the largest specimens ever seen.
SCHOOL "STAY-AWAY" STRIKE
SYDNEY, Sunday, 8th November 1937 – The Argus
Residents of Terry Hills, a northern suburb of Sydney, have decided that from tomorrow their children will be kept away from St. Ives Public School, to which they have to travel six miles by bus or lorry.
There are 56 children of school age in the district, and residents state that requests for the establishment of a school there have had no result.
SCHOOL STRIKE RANKS WEAKENING
SYDNEY, Friday, 12th November 1937 – The Canberra Times
As time progresses, so does the breach in the ranks of the Terry Hills parents whose, determination not to send their children to school unless a new one is erected at Terry Hills, is weakening.
Today, 45 children went to school at St Ives, and seven more are likely to attend on Monday. Parents objected, to sending their children to St. Ives, claiming, that the trip was dangerous.
MORE POLIO CASES
SYDNEY, Monday, 27th August 1951
The Health Department today reported eight new cases of polio in New South Wales.
The cases, seven females and one male, came from Punchbowl, Hornsby, St. Ives, Cootamundra, Bowraville, Junee, Mirrah (near Wagga), and Holbrook.
This brings the total number of cases in the State this year to 1416, including 101 deaths, compared with 373 cases last year with 23 deaths during the corresponding period of 1950,
Police Search Sydney Suburb
SYDNEY, Sunday 3rd March 1935
Although the police combed the bush in the St. Ives district during the weekend, a man who is believed to have attacked a school girl on Friday, and scared several others, is still at large.
Residents in the district are terrified, as it is believed the man is demented and armed with a razor. There is a likelihood that police dogs will assist in the search to-morrow. The police are of the belief that the man is being supplied with food by friends in the locality, while the discovery of clothing today indicated that he was either supplied with new clothing or roaming the district naked.
BULLET IN BOY'S BRAIN - Amazing Case in Sydney
SYDNEY, April 8 1934, Courier Mail
While playing at his home in Killeaton Road, St. Ives, yesterday, Henry Challis (12), was accidentally shot in the head by his brother, Raymond (14). A bullet from a pea rifle entered the boy's forehead and split into two parts, one portion entering his brain.
An operation was performed, and part of the bullet was removed, but the doctors were unable to recover the portion in his brain. The boy was semiconscious all day today, and it was considered remarkable that he lived. His condition remained critical tonight.
ITALIAN FARMERS FINED FOR HARBOURING P.O.W. ESCAPEES
SYDNEY, Thursday 30th October 1946 – The Canberra Times
On charges of having harboured a P.O.W, and with assisting a P.O.W. to escape, Umberto Caddeo of Wetherill Park, and Andrea Sgro, of St Ives, were each fined £25 with £2/10/- costs at the Special Federal Court to-day.
An Italian P.O.W., Armano Bianco, said that he and other prisoners went ' out night and day from the St. Ives camp to visit friends in the district. There were no guards at the camp and he walked out through the barrel wire.
Warrant Officer B. Lemesurier, an intelligence officer, said there were no guards at the camp but only an administrative staff and he had heard that prisoners were free to roam the countryside.
Bianco said that on April 20 he escaped and met by arrangement Sgro who was in a car with Caddio about a mile and a half from the camp. There was another prisoner, named Funiciellö in the car. Bianco added that he drove with Caddeo to the latter's farm at Wetherill Park and stayed there for 43 days. Caddeo paid him £2 a week and he went openly With Caddeo to the markets. He also went with Caddeo and bought a civilian suit.
Luigi Testa, of Macquarie Fields, was fined. £25, with £2/14/- costs, for harbouring a P.O.W. from Liverpool Camp for two weeks.
The court was told that Italians were harbouring P.O.W's. and using them as cheap labour on their farms.
SEARCH FOR SEX PERVERT IN BUSH
SYDNEY. Tuesday 8th January 1952
Nearly 100 police and civilians today searched unsuccessfully for a naked man who yesterday attacked two boys in bush country near East Lindfield. The search today was concentrated mainly in the Roseville Killara-St. Ives area.
The man, by his frequent switch attacks on children over the" last three months, has become known locally as "the whip." Parents have been warned by police not to let their children loam in bushes around the district in case the pervert strikes again.
Police were told yesterday by the boys, one aged 11, the other12, that the man accosted them and dragged them into the bushes, where he indecently assaulted one of them.
C.I.B. Chief, Supt. J. Delaney, described the man as "a sex maniac of the worst and most dangerous type."
Police will carry out a search of the area again to-morrow.
SERIOUS FIRES ALL AROUND SYDNEY
SYDNEY, Wednesday 9TH January 1929
The intense heat has caused serious bush fires in many parts of the metropolitan area. The most serious occurred at Bankstown, where a number of houses and small farms were destroyed, rendering many people homeless.
The flames spread 'on a. six-mile front, and leapt to a height of 60 ft at times. In the Oatley and Mortdale districts 200 acres of grass, and a weatherboard house were destroyed, while, fires in the vicinity of the Coast Hospital, at Long Bay, were, checked just before they reached some of the military buildings attached lo the hospital.
In some districts brigades were unable to cope with the number of calls for help, and brigades outside the district had to be called. A house was destroyed at St. Ives, while three others were saved with difficulty.
Nearly every suburb, even those in the populous areas, was visited by fire, which, in some places, held up the traffic for a considerable time. Hundreds of fences have been destroyed, but good work by volunteer fire fighters saved the large number of houses.
GOLF CADDY SUES ORCHARDISTS - "Beaten and Chained" - Claims £2,000 Damages
Robin Lee Logan, aged 15 years, was the plaintiff in an action heard before Mr. Acting Justice Owen and a Jury to recover £2,000 damages from Harold John Britton and William Britton, his father, orchardists, of St. Ives, for alleged assault on September 16. 1936. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants beat him, chained him to a dray, and kept him imprisoned for some time.
Logan stated In evidence that he had been acting as a golf caddy at the Pymble links, near the defendants' orchard. He was with some companions when it was suggested that they should search for golf balls in the orchard. While getting over the fence he was caught by Harold Brit- ton, who kicked him on the thigh, forced his hands behind his back, and took, him to a shed. William Britton then tied, his hands with a piece of rope behind his back. His wrists were then tied to one end of a heavy chain and the other end was attached to the axle of a dray to which a horse was harnessed. He was left alone for about 15 minutes, during which he managed to detach the chain from the axle and escape.
Harold John Britton said that he saw five boys climbing over the orchard fence. Three of them, including Logan, had made towards the fruit trees. When the boys saw him they ran back, but he caught Logan as he was climbing over the fence. He did not strike or kick Logan, but placed the boy's hands behind his back. He tied his hands to one end of a chain, which was not made fast to a dray, only for four minutes. When he returned the boy had gone.
The addresses of counsel had not concluded with the Court adjourned.
Boy Wins Action
Robin Lee Logan, aged 15 years, was awarded £126 damages by a jury in the Supreme Court this morning.
Logan had proceeded against Harold John Britton and William Britton, orchardists of St Ives, claiming £2000 damages alleging that they had beaten him and chained him to a dray.
The Argus, Monday 19th March 1923
St. Ives is about nine miles from Milson's Point, and is a district splendidly adapted for residential purposes. Residents are already strongly protesting. Flemington, on the western suburbs line, has been spoiled as a residential suburb by the presence of the saleyards.
Body Found in Bush
Walking in the bush between Killara and St. Ives (N.S.W.) on Saturday, two boys found the decomposed body of a man lying in a cave. Near the body lay a rusty revolver, a chamber of which had been discharged. The clothes that the man had been wearing have bean identified as those of a man named Higley, of Greenwich, who was reported to the police as missing several weeks ago.
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