Wednesday,
y, October 20,, 2010
Blow
it up
Magistrate hits out at
state of old hospital
JACOB
JAC
MOSS
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MAGISTRATE Jack Fahey sug-
gested the old Mount Gambier
hospital be “blown up or knocked
down” when a man appeared before
Mount Gambier’s Magistrates Court
yesterday for stealing over 380
kilograms of copper piping from
the site.
“I know the old hospital is an
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eye sore and should be blown-up or
knocked down or something, how-
ever this does not give you the right
to trespass and thieve from there,”
Mr Fahey told the accused.
Meanwhile, Mount Gambier’s
Senior Constable Adrian Batten told
The Border Watch the old hospital
had seen ongoing acts of vandalism,
trespass and theft over the many
years it had sat dormant.
“There are people constantly
getting in there, yet many of the
cases of vandalism and trespass go
unreported,” he said.
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Record
shipment
MORE than 2000 cows were
shipped yesterday from
Portland, bound for China, in
what is the largest ever Jersey
shipment to leave Australian
shores.
The dairy cattle, a mix of
unjoined and chance-mated
heifers, predominantly from the
South East, Western Victoria
and Gippsland, had been in
quarantine for the past month
and were loaded aboard the MV
Finola.
Elders meat and livestock
trading general manager
Hamish Browning said the order
was the largest ever received by
an Australian live exporter for
Jersey cattle.
“Demand from China for
quality Australian dairy cattle
has been firm for quite some
time and we expect to see that
demand continue,” Mr Browning
said.
“In recent times, China has
been predominantly buying
Holstein cattle and this Jersey
order is the first on a large scale
we have seen.”
He said specifications for
orders of breeding stock out
of China were of a very high
quality and export teams had
been working with Australian
RECOVERY: Breast cancer battler Sharon Hunt, who recently had producers to source the best
a mastectomy, says the Breast Cancer Network Australia forum in animals.
Mount Gambier yesterday gave her insight into other women’s
Elders recently released
experiences – something she could not gain from a doctor.
specifications for a second Jersey
She was one of 120 women at the forum who heard from Olympian
order, for which selections will
Raelene Boyle AM, BCNA chief executive Lyn Swinburne and a
commence shortly.
medical oncologist and psycho-social worker.
Whilst China is Elders’ and
They raised issues around access to services for after-effects of
Australia’s largest market
breast cancer and the struggle to come to terms with a women’s
for dairy cattle, the company
identity post-breast cancer.
is also developing demand in
•Stories page 8 Picture: CLARE RAWLINSON other markets, including the
Middle East.
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