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From: "Bev Edmonds" <>
Subject: [Aus-Qld] Old Papers--Bulletin--31 Jan 1934
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:11:15 +1000


Taken from the Bulletin, Sydney, 31 January, 1934

Personal Items p14

N.S.W. Jewry lost a leader and Sydney one of its most noted businees men
when Sep LEVY died at 66. He was a Sydney Grammar boy, and a son of Leg.
Councillor L.W. LEVY. His first taste of business was in the West Maitland
branch of the David COHEN Co.; later he was managing director in Newcastle
and then in Sydney. Tooth's, Nestlés and the Hunter River S.S. Co. were
other interests. Three sons were Diggers, and the eldest, Maitland, won the
M.C. before he fell.

Salvationists in Sydney will soon be extending a welcome to the last member
of the BOOTH family on the active list: Evangeline, seventh child of William
BOOTH. Though rising 70, Evangeline BOOTH is still active in the U.S.A.,
where she holds the rank of Commander-in-Chief. She is entitled also to wear
a few decorations--one from the King of Sweden, another from President
WILSON, and a third, the Order of the Founder, which is the Salvarmy's own
particular V.C. and .D.SO. rolled into one.

George H. PROSSER, is one of Adelaide's best-known public men for the last
40 years. he is a native, born on the Gawler River 66 years ago, and was a
member of the State's Leg. Council for a dozen years, and American Consular
Agent for a decade. He had a spell as Mayor of Kensington and Norwood, and
then had charge of the Torrens city for 21 years. Nowadays he's chairman of
Wallaroo and Mt. Lyell Fertilisers, Ltd. When not working he likes a quiet
game of billiards.

[shortened version] Cecil VINDIN, who died the other day, was celebrated as
the courtliest man in Inverell, where his tall figure had become a landmark.
Only two literates in Australia would have had a chance with him in an
illegible signature competition--James LOVE, chairman of the Q.N. Bank, and
W.G. LAYTON, Sydney's estwhile Town Clerk.

That Harry BRACKER is dead is hard to believe. He was born on the Darling
Downs in 1844, four years after the LESLIES settled there. His father, whose
people had been driven off their estates by Napoleon, brought out some of
the first and best Saxon rams for the BETTINGTONS of Brindley Park in the
late 'twenties. Dad joined in the rush to the new northern Land of Canaan in
1842, forming Rosenthal for the Aberdeen Company, and there Harry was
born--the second white son of the D.D. country. His mother's marriage--she
was a ROSS, and her father forged the first plough-share in rural
Queensland--was the first celebrated in Queensland betwen pastoral people.
She was a real pioneer. Once she carried the youngster 200 miles over the
wild and black-ridden range to Brisbane on a pillow on her saddle bow. Harry
grew into a born drover and cattle judge. He knew all the overland cattle
routes and all the great pastoralists of his time. He had a wonderful
memory, and in his later years would repeat at length conversations with
legendry figures like Robert McDOUGALL of Cona and the MORTONS of Derrimut.
He spoke of DUMARESQUE and the HOWDENS and the GARDINERS as if they were
twentieth-century contemporaries. The ROBERTSONS of the Hill were his bosom
pals, but his greatest friend of all was Jimmy TYSON. The two tall bushman
figures in cabbage-tree hats and moleskins, usually with a couple of
packhorses and a blackboy, once were familiar sights at many waterholes; but
if there was a station handy Harry, something of a dandy, would go dancing
while Jimmy smoked his pipe in the quiet of the creek. In the boom days of
the 'seventies BRACKER became a great Shorthorn and pure-bred man. Every
historic Victorian sale saw him on the rails, and often he went north with a
thousnad pure-bred reds and roams from the best BATES stock in the world.
After Robert CLARK died in 1917 he became the Nestor of the Derrimut
men--Neil BLACK, the ROBERTSONS, and MORTONS, C.B.FISHER, JENKINS, M H.
DEVLIN and a dozen more had all faded into history. Scarcely a big breeder
of shorthorns of to-day does not owe something to his tutoring. After 40
years on the roads and on his station at Warroo, he joined MOREHAEDS, Ltd.,
and managed their stock department. His language, which was of the bush
variety, much enlarged the vocabulary of the Enoggera saleyards. Once, when
he was over 80, I was talking to him in Brisbane showring when Arthur
LOMAX'S Grand Duke of Clifton broke loose a few yards from us. I went
suddenly under a platform which had been arected as the Governor's rostrum.
Harry merely opened his umbrella in the astonished Grand Dukes face. He did
not even remove his cigar from his mouth. Grand Duke retreated
ignominiously. That was the type of man who made wsetern Quensland.

Cheers
Bev

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