January 2
• School of Arts To Be Auctioned
January 9
• Obituary: Col Smith
• Country Party Branch to be formed at Liston
January 21
• Not To Purchase Somme School
Closed last year
• Fire Brigade Board
Wallangarra Fire Brigade has no right or duty to fight Jennings Fires.
• Rugby League: Bobby Cook
Brisbane Norths Player. Bobby Cook has signed on as Stanthorpe Coach/Captain
• Photograph Wanted
Stanthorpe Troop of Darling Downs Light Horse
January 30
• Beatlemania Has Hit Stanthorpe
February 4
• Stanthorpe 84th Annual Show
• Devil’s Elbow
17 tons of toilet paper in half and quarter ton rolls were dumped when a semi-trailer plunged off the New England Highway over the Devil’s Elbow, north of Wallangarra.
• Campdraft at Midnight
Six Stanthorpe Show Society members found themselves in an impromptu campdraft when about 30 campdrafting
cattle escaped from the showground and strayed onto the New England Highway.
February 6
• High School Takes Over Primary School Wing
Official Opening of Show by Mr. McKechnie
February 27
• The Summit Methodist Sunday School
• Civic Centre Price Adjustment
Now £88,984
March 3
• Fighting Fires at Jennings
“Anomolous Position“
March 5
• Beatles’ Wigs
March 10
• School of Arts in Need of Funds
• Sewerage Scheme – 587 houses ready for connection
• Fighting Fires at Jennings
Department seeks NSW views
• Electricity Extensions in District
Field day demonstrates appliances on farm and in home. Extension to Severnlea, Broadwater, Spring Creek, Amiens, and Bapaume expected by June (290 consumers)
• Local Government elections: Cr. F.A. Rogers Standing Again
March 12
• Growers Promote “Eat ‘n Apple Week”
March 17
• Mr. McKechnie Speaks of Orchard Problems
Discrepancy between price paid by consumers and price paid to consumers
• TV Station at Passchendaele
• Police Raid Two Bars
After Hours Drinking: Five Local Raid The Summit, Commercial Hotel (8.45 pm Saturday – The Summit Bowling Club; 10.15 am, Sunday: 1045 pm Hotel Stanthorpe, Hotel Garden)
March 19
• Obituary: William Belford
March 24
• No Stanthorpe Shire Election
• Pipe Band Championships
Stanthorpe and District Caledonian Society will again stage Queensland Pipe Band Championship
March 26
• Award for Fruit Industry
March 31
• Name for Television Station
Junior Chamber of Commerce supports GBT4 (Granite Belt Television 4)
April 2
• Sequel to Hotel Raids
18 fined for liquor breaches, including serving liquor after hours, liquor near dance halls, selling liquor after hours.
April 7
• Financing the Civic Centre
School of Arts Sold for €9600
April 9
• Obituary: Mr. Patrick Walsh
Former Councillor, orchardist
April 16
• Obituary: Mr. Albert D. Hogden
Inquiry into Fruit and Vegetable Prices. Discrepancy between retail and farm prices.
April 23
• Channel 6 now open
Northern New South Wales – ABC
April 30
• No Quorum – Apple Blossom Week Could be Abandoned
May 12
• Cairnsmoore Building Sold
May 14
• Queensland Go Kart Championships in Stanthorpe
• Britannia Street raceway
• Snow and Sleet in Icy Blast
• Road blocked by Smash – Devil’s Elbow
May 21
• Saturday Night is Cracker Night
Commonwealth Day, Sunday; Cracker Night, Saturday, May 23. Retailers agree to cease promoting fireworks.
May 26
• Big Motel planned
A 20 unit motel is to be build in Maryland Street Near the Carnarvon Bridge
• Address on Decimal Currency
• Death of Mr. Hubert Withers
June 2
• Council Acts on Devil’s Elbow
Main Roads asked to act
June 9
• New Council Workshop to be built
• Town Beautification – First Meeting of Committee
• Ray Barr’s Sports and Cycle Shop opens
• Obituary: Evan (Joe) Hindmarsh; John Middleton
June 11
• Decimal Currency Lecture
June 18
• Combined Churches Choirs hymn singing broadcast on ABC Radio Via shortwave to UK: “We plough the fields and scatter…”
June 23
• Obituary: R.E. Thompson
July 2
• New Police Station Opening July 3
• £160 for Lighting Soccer Field
July 7
• New Police Station Officially Opened
Cost: £14.700. “Palatial Building“. Previously police were on the ground floor of the Court House.
July 9
• Night Flying for Stanthorpe Aero Club
July 23
• Cricket Club
Asks that White Memorial Oval be available to them for fixtures on Saturday, intertown
matches on Sunday. Request that oval not be used for horse sports.
July 28
• Obituary: Emily Sophia Burton
August 13
• Reply to Football Criticism
Ray Barr
August 25
• Italian Influx Expected
September 1
• Mt. Marley Alight
September 10
• Obituary: Levi Spiller (Miner), Daniel James O’Connor (Fruit Industry Pioneer)
September 17
• Leone Murphy
Queensland Junior Champion six times; Australian Junior Champion four times
• No Ban on Water Tanks
September 22
• Fighting Fire Over Border Ban
• Pikedale Building Sold
October 1
• Aviation & Stanthorpe Aero Club
A.B. Bateman
• Stanthorpe Timber Industry
Howard’s Sawmill Grows With District
• Wildlife on the Granite Belt
• Marlay or Marley
• Public Meeting – Case for Fluouridation
October 6
• Jetty For Storm King Dam
October 8
• Thulimbah School – Golden Jubilee
• It Rained Mud
• Dust blown from inland Australia
October 13
• Obituary: Denis Joseph Allen
October 20
• Obituary: O.K. Phillips
October 27
• Request for Anti-Fluoridation Meeting
November 3
• Fluoride Poll on November 26
November 5
• Damaging Hail Storm
The Summit to Thulimbah, Amiens, Pozieres, Bapaume
November 10
• Anti-Fluoride Association Formed
• Delegation on Hail Damage
• Devil’s Elbow Again
Three crashed in November
November 12
• Obituary: Hubert Jarvis
•Government geologist, Department of Agriculture
November 17
• 15 Naturalised
December 1
• Fluoridation Rejected
670 voted for fluoridation while 1100 voted against it
December 17
• Bobby Cook to Return
December 24
• Late Mr. Fred Finch
• Glen Aplin Bush Fire
