Family and friends of Geoff are warmly invited to attend his funeral service to be held on Thursday, June 22nd 2017 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 189 Penquite Road Norwood commencing at 11am, followed by a private burial at Carr-Villa Cemetery. Former member Retired Police Association of Tasmania. No flowers by request.
Nothing further is known about this Tasmanian member at the time of publication.
Cal
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Norman MacDONALD
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Norman MacDONALD
Late of ?
New South Wales Police Force
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Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 12 April 1955
Constable – appointed 12 April 1956
Constable 1st Class – appointed 12 April 1961 whilst stationed at Ingleburn
Senior Constable – appointed 12 April 1966 whilst stationed at Ingleburn
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 13 December 1970 whilst stationed at Ingleburn
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 5 July 1978 whilst stationed at Ingleburn
Senior Sergeant – appointed 1 August 1981 whilst stationed at Ingleburn & takes Optional Retirement whilst at Liverpool.
Stations: Worked General Duties his entire service:
Liverpool ( 22 Division – Pro. Constable from 9 May 1955 ),
Ingleburn ( 35 Division – from 21 July 1960 ),
Campbelltown ( 35 Division – from 29 January 1971 ),
Ingleburn ( 22 Division from 3 July 1977 ),
Cabramatta ( 34 Division from 18 June 1978 ),
Ingleburn ( 22 Division – from 28 January 1979 as O.I.C. ),
Fairfield ( 34 Division – from 27 September 1981 ) –
Liverpool – Retirement
Service: From? ? Pre April 1955? to 1 April 1988=33+years Service
Awards: Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal – awarded 20 February 1978
No find on It’s An Honour
Commended for his part played in fighting the disastrous bush fires which occurred in the County of Cumberland during March, 1965. N.T.W. ALLAN, Commissioner of Police S23541/129 – 19 August 1965
Born: 14 November 1931
Died on: Tuesday 13 June 2017
Age: 85
Cause: ?
Event location: Campbelltown Hospital
Event date: Tuesday 13 June 2017 at Campbelltown Hospital
Funeral date: Wednesday 21 June 2017 @ 11.30am
Funeral location: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Camden Valley Way, Leppington , South Chapel
Buried at: Forest Lawn Cemetery
Memorial located at: ?
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Norm was already married when he joined the NSW Police Force.
Description: 5′ 11″ tall, 11 stone 9 lb, “Blue” eyes with brown hair & fair complexion. Prior to joining NSW Police, he was a Grocery Traveller for 7.5 years and a shop assistant for 9 mths.
He qualified on General Duty utilities and light trucks from 9 June 1955 & Cycle Outfits on 4 May 1959.
Norman passed his Constable 1st Class examination on 24 June 1958 but failed his Sergeant 3rd Class exams 3 times from 1964 – 1966.
He completed the Sergeants’ Training Course # 1 of 1972.
He failed his first attempt at his Sergeant 1st Class exam but passed on the 12 May 1983. He also failed two attempts at his Inspectors examination in 1982 & 1983 & remained at the rank of Sergeant 1st Class.
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Thomas David GREGORY
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Thomas David GREGORY
aka David Thomas GREGORY
Late of Grose St, Parramatta
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # ?????
Rank: Constable 1st Class
Stations: ?, Dundas, Parramatta, Parramatta Court House
Service: From ? ? 1921to ? ? 1953 = 32 years Service
In loving memory Dear husband Thomas David GREGORY Died 31st March 1962 Aged 68 years A loving wife & Mother Mildred Jane GREGORY Died 26th May 1972 Aged 59 years
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A former policeman, who drove the first ‘PD’ car ever used in Parramatta, died recently after nine years’ retirement from the force.
He was Constable First Class Thomas David Gregory ( 68 ) and he is survived by his wife and two married sons and daughters. Many senior police officers joined the guard of honour outside All Saints Church following the funeral service.
Constable Gregory, who served for many years in Parramatta and Dundas, retired from the force in 1953 after 32 years service.
Popular
A returned soldier from World War I, he was popular with children throughout the district for his care and attention while directing traffic at the city’s busiest intersections.
A former fellow – officer said yesterday that Constable Gregory was one of the most popular officers ever to serve in Parramatta. He said Const. Gregory was a familiar sight throughout the district driving a ‘bullnozed’ PD car in 1925.
Tributes
Const. Gregory was later transferred to duty in Parramatta Court House, and on his retirement, tributes to him were paid by Judges, Senior Counsel and other members of the Bar. His death came as a blow to the hundreds of people who knew him during his police service and since his retirement.
A long guard of honour of friends and former fellow officers stood in respect as the cortege left from his Grose Street home. Rev. O. Crawford conducted the service at All Saints Church, and later at the graveside in St. Paul’s cemetery, Carlingford.
Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate (Parramatta, NSW : 1888 – 1950), Monday 22 June 1936, page 1
Wireless Patrol in Crash
Chase of Stolen Car
FENCE KNOCKED DOWN
Constable Gregory’s promptness and presence of mind averted what might have been a fatal crash In Church-street, Parramatta, early on Sunday morning, when a stolen car, travelling at over 70 miles an hour, swerved in front of the Parramatta Police wireless patrol car.
Constable Gregory, who was driving the wireless car, turned quickly to avoid a collision. A front tyre blew out and the car, getting into a broadside skid, ran on to the footpath,knocked down a fence and finished up in a hedge.
The accident occurred after the two cars had crossed Lennox Bridge. The driver of the stolen car, who was accompanied by a man and a woman, swerved in front as the police drew abreast.
Despite the high speed at which it was travelling, the patrol car received relatively small damage. With Constable Gregory were Constable Tompkins ( operator ) and Detective Booth.
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate (NSW : 1876 – 1954) , Monday 9 March 1931, page 4
TWO MEN CHARGED
Fugitive Shot in Knee
SYDNEY Sunday.
When one of two men failed to stop after being challenged by the police in Sydney-road, Granville last night, Constable Gregory fired three shots, one of which struck a fugitive in the left knee. The man was conveyed to the Parramatta Hospital, and admitted. The other man made no attempt to escape when the police made their challenge. Subsequently both men were charged.
The police visited a house in Auburn and recovered £300 worth of property, alleged to have been stolen.
Thomas David Gregory was born in 1893 in the Queanbeyan district on NSW. Some sources, including his enlistment papers, state his name as David Thomas Gregory although birth and baptismal records give his name as Thomas David Gregory. His grandfather and father were rural workers at properties around Duntroon and Tharwa and Gregory is associated with Royalla, NSW where he too was a farm labourer.
Gregory enlisted in April 1916 with the 56th Battalion and joined his unit near Flers in France in February 1917. The 56th Battalion fought at Louverval and Bullecourt during April and May 1917. Gregory was gassed at Polygon Wood in Belgium in September 1917. He rejoined the 56th Battalion in June 1918 and was wounded three months later at Péronne on the Somme River where he was shot in the ankle, leg and forearm.
After the war, Gregory worked for a few months at the Royal Military College, Duntroon before applying for a Soldier Settlement block. In his application, he indicated he wanted to graze sheep, that he was single with no dependents and that he had £250 in capital.
Gregory was granted the lease on Woden Block 110D of 208 acres (84 hectares), one of the smallest blocks in the District of Woden. Jerrabomberra Avenue (now the Monaro Highway) boarded the block on the west and Narrabundah Lane on the north. The lease began on the 3rd April 1920 for 25 years at an annual rental of £50/10.
Plan of Woden Block 110D.
The Commonwealth never intended for anyone to be able to make a living from Woden Block 110D; Gregory certainly didn’t. He applied for an advance of £168/15 to buy 150 ewes as well as funds to build fences worth about £35. However, it seems that Gregory did not stock his block but sublet it, as he wrote in 1922, “for 2 years to Messrs Hardy and Reid.”
Google Maps image of area c2013 with Woden Block 110D boundary in red.
By 1922, Gregory had moved to Parramatta, NSW where he married and also joined the New South Wales Police Force. William Harris, a neighbour at Jerrabomberra, looked after the block on Gregory’s behalf. He held onto Woden Block 110D until May 1931 when he transferred it to another neighbour, Hector McIntosh, who in turn sold it to Hugh Read in 1934. Thomas Gregory retired from the NSW Police in 1953 as a Senior Constable and died on the 31st March 1962 in Parramatta.
Rank: NSW Police Cadet – commenced 26 February 1942
Probationary Constable – appointed 29 June 1945
Inspector 3rd Class – appointed 1 March 1974
Inspector 2nd Class – appointed 2 March 1976
Inspector 1st Class – appointed 1 August 1977
Senior Inspector – appointed 14 April 1978
Superintendent – appointed 21 December 1978
Senior Superintendent – appointed 17 September 1982
Executive Chief Superintendent – Retirement
Stations: ?, “possibly” Parkes ( as Detective ), “possibly” Penrith ( as Detective Sgt ), Superintendent ( Dubbo ), Chief Superintendent ( Parramatta – 18 Division ), Superintendent of Metropolitan Area
Service: From26 February 1942to 14 February 1985=43years Service
Awards: National Medal – granted 15 November 1982
Born: 15 February 1925 in Nabiac, NSW
Died on: Wednesday 14 June 2017 at Kingswood, NSW
Age: 92
Cause: ?
Event location: Kingswood, NSW
Event date: Wednesday 14 June 2017
Funeral date: Tuesday 20 June 2017
Funeral location: private funeral via Supremacy Funerals Chapel, 44 Station St, Penrith
Memorial Service: A Celebration of Life will be held Wednesday 12 July 2017 at Caddens Retirement Village, 21 Braeburn Street, Caddens at 2.30 pm.
Buried at: ?
Memorial located at: ?
Lion Frank Killen, one of two founding members of the Penrith Lions Club, has been awarded the highly prestigious Melvin Jones Fellowship award for his ongoing dedication to the club.
FRANK is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO
FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.
May they forever Rest In Peace
Frank Killen passed away and funeral notice in this mornings Daily Telegraph. He was a senior officer and the family well entrenched in Police history with siblings Louise F. KILLEN (Cummings) ( Regd # 11006 ) with John Francis KILLEN ( Regd # 19176 ) and Martin P. KILLEN ( Regd # 17965 ) former members too. R I P.
Francis Leonard (Frank) Killen
Born in Nabiac NSW, Australia on 15 February 1925
Passed away in Kingswood NSW on 14 June 2017
Late of Penrith District
Aged 92 years
Service Details
A private funeral service will be held on Tuesday 20 June 2017. A Celebration of Live Service will be held in July 2017, date to be advised.
KILLEN, Francis Leonard (Frank)
15/2/1925 – 14/6/2017
Late of Penrith District Beloved husband of Anne. Loved and devoted father, step-father, father-in-law, grandfather and great-grandfather.
Forever in our Hearts
A private funeral service will be held on Tuesday 20 June 2017. A Celebration of Frank’s Life will be held on Wednesday 12 July 2017 at Caddens Retirement Village, 21 Braeburn Street, Caddens at 2.30 pm.
Supremacy Funerals
(02) 4721 2020
Penrith and All Suburbs
Published in The Sydney Morning Herald on June 17, 2017 – See more at: http://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/obituary.aspx?n=francis-leonard-killen-frank&pid=185822696#sthash.ZPEgyiu1.dpuf
Lion Frank Killen, one of two founding members of the Penrith Lions Club, has been awarded the highly prestigious Melvin Jones Fellowship award for his ongoing dedication to the club.
Mr Killen started the Lions Club in 1957 and after more than 50 years of dedication, the Lions International’s Head Office in Oak Brook, Illinois, America bestowed on him the Fellowship.
“I appreciate the award but never set out to win it,” Mr Killen said.
“I started the Lions Club in 1957 and was formerly the president and then also the secretary for 17 years straight.
“One of our longest lasting community initiatives has been support for the Nepean Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Each year for nearly 20 years we have provided them with finances to help import expensive equipment that they may need.”
Fellow Lions Club member, Barry Leavett-Brown said that Mr Killen has served the Penrith Lions Club earnestly with great determination and, as one would expect, had very high standards in his position of club secretary for more than twenty years.
“He has been a stalwart on the committee that runs the Chocolate Wheel project in the Westfield Plaza,” he added.
Appearing in Penrith Court last week on a charge of murder at Springwood, a Woodford man was alleged to have told police that he also intended killing the wife of the dead man.
The man charged, James Frederick Burne, 23, of Woodford, was committed by Mr. A. Cummerford, S.M., for trial at Central Criminal Court sitting to commence on February 26.
For the defendant, Mr. E. O’Loughlin said Burne would plead not guilty and reserved his defence.
Burne was charged with having murdered his brother in-law, Allan Frederick Edwin Wright, 27, at Springwood on January 15, 1962.
In evidence, Sergt. Ronald F. Stewart, of Lawson, said a man rang him at the Lawson Police Station early on Monday morning, January 15. The man had told the sergeant his name and said he had just killed Allan Wright.
Sergt. Stewart said Burne had told him that Wright was married to his (Burne’s) sister.
Burne had said: “I intend ed to kill them both. She bullied me, and they both annoyed me.”
PUSHED GUN AWAY
Police also alleged that Burne had said Wright had sat up in bed and pushed the barrel of Burne’s gun away. “I pulled the trigger and he fell over the end of the bed,” Burne is alleged to have said.
Detective-Sergt. Francis J. Killen, of Penrith, told the court he went to a house in Springwood at 2.20 a.m. on January 15. A body was lying on the floor of the bedroom.
A post-mortem showed two gunshot wounds in the head, either of which could have caused death, Dr. E. Scott Young said in evidence.
Detective-Sergt. Killen, who had been accompanied to the house by Sergt. Stewart and Senior Constable W. Power, of Springwood, said Burne had told him at 3.40 a.m. he had not been at work the previous day.
After reading magazines and thinking a lot, he had decided to kill Allan Wright and Mrs. Wright, Burne told Detective-Sergt. Killen.
Widow of the dead man, Mrs. Eileen Wright, employed as a casual nurse, said she had been at work on the night of the shooting. There had been frequent disagreements between her and her brother, Mrs. Wright said.
Former Tallaganda Shire Clerk To Stand Trial Stealing Charges
Mr.. C. N. Finlay, S.M, yesterday committed a former Shire Clerk of Tallaganda Shire Council for trial on two charges of stealing money from Tallaganda Council.
He Is Malcolm Joseph Noonan, 36, a married man with five children, now a member of the R.A.A.F. station at Glenbrook.
Noonan was charged with: Stealing £155 from Tallaganda council between April 2 and April 7 while a servant of the council.
Stealing £164 from Tallaganda Council between April 17 and April 20.
Tallaganda Shire Council has its headquarters at Braidwood.
Mr. Finlay committed Noonan for trial after hearing evidence on both charges in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday. The trial will be held at next Goulburn Quarter Sessions to commence on September 13.
£100 BAIL
The defendant has been allowed £50 bail on each charge. He reserved his defence.
DETECTIVE’S EVIDENCE
Detective Francis Leonard Killen, of Penrith, said he had seen the defendant at R.A.A.F. Headquarters at Glenbrook on May 20 this year. The defendant had told him he had been in the Air Force since June 4 last year. Prior to that he had been Shire Clerk for the Tallaganda Shire Council.
He had told the defendant he (Killen) had a warrant for his arrest on a charge of stealing £155 from the Tallaganda Shire.
Witness said the defendant had commented, “This is a bit of a blow. I fixed that up.” Witness said the defendant had added: “I took £155 and I took other money too, but I put it all back and I thought every thing would be all right. “I was a bit silly. I was having a bad run at the punt but I had assets and I knew I could pay the money back. “But I did not get things fixed up as quickly as I thought I would and I had to go to Sydney and see my solicitor. “On May 8 I went with my father and gave them a bank draft for the money I owed.” Witness said the defendant had made a signed statement the following day at the Penrith Police Station. Killen added that at 11 a.m. yesterday he had again seen defendant at the Goulburn Police Station.
He had told him it was believed that he had taken a further £164, the property of the Tallaganda Shire Council, between April 17 and April 20. The defendant had said that was right. Witness said he had then asked the defendant why he took this money. The defendant had replied: “The same as the other.” Witness: “I said to him, ‘You mean you did that money on the horses or, as you say, on the punt.'” The defendant had said “Yes.” Witness said he had asked the defendant what had led up to him repaying the money eventually. The defendant had said: “I received a letter demanding that the money be repaid by May 9 or proceedings would be taken against me. “I went with my father on Friday, May 8.” The defendant had told him he had realised on his assets to the extent of £364 to repay money he owed to the council, witness said.
CLERK’S STATEMENT
Cleve James Taylor, an A grade clerk employed by Tallaganda Shire Council, said he had been employed by the council for five years and knew the defendant during that period. On the morning of April 7, 1953, a Miss Morris, who is now Mrs. Gowen, told him something as a result of which he checked the receipt books and checked cash for the takings on April 2 in a drawer in the strong room. He had found a deficiency of £155.
There was a note in the drawer with Mr. Noonan’s initials, M.J.N., and £155 written on it. He would say the note was in Noonan’s hand writing. He had seen the defendant on April 9 when Miss Morris told Noonan there was a deficiency of £155 in the cash drawer Witness said the defendant had told him he knew it was missing. “He did not give a reason for it being missing,” witness said.
EXPECTED CHEQUE
“He said he expected to receive a cheque in a day or so and would repay the money them ‘ Witness said he had found a further deficiency in cash in the strong room to the extent of £164 .on Monday, April 20. He did hot see the defendant that day and did not see him again as an employee of council. On May 8, 1953, Mr. Noonan had come to the shire office with his father and handed him a bank draft drawn on the Commonwealth Bank for £365 and 5/- In cash.
Witness said he had made out a receipt for £46/5/- for goods purchased from the council and given it to the defendant.
During the period from April 2 to April 20, he and Noonan were the only persons with keys to the strong room. “Only I and Mr. Noonan would have access to the safe after it was locked. “Money placed in the safe had been received on behalf of the Tallaganda Shire by the various employees in the office.”
“NO DOUBT MONEY WOULD BE REFUNDED”
The defendant, Noonan, asked the witness if he at any time had had any doubt that the money would be refunded. Witness : “I had no doubt at all.” To Noonan, witness said the Shire Clerk Would be “overall” responsible for any deficiency.
Mrs. Marie Clare Gowen, formerly Miss Morris, a clerk employed by the Tallaganda Council, corroborated the evidence given by witness Taylor.
SYDNEY : A 22-year-old farm worker had become too scared to take delivery of a motor truck which he purchased from a Sydney firm with two forged cheques for £1318, Det. Frank Killen, of Parkes, said in the Quarter Sessions today.
John Whitfield Dunstan, of Cowra, pleaded guilty to having forged both cheques, one for £860 and the other for £458, in the name of his employer, Roy Attenborough. grazier, of Parkes. Dunstan also pleaded guilty to having uttered the cheques. Judge Redshaw sentenced Dunstan to 12 months’ gaol and said that after Dunstan had served a reasonable part of it, he might recommend release provided Dunstan’s family arranged to establish him on the land.
Detective Killen said that Dunstan, a former fireman in the N.S.W. railways, had, after separation from his wife at Newcastle some months ago, become farm laborer in the Parkes district. Stole Cheque Forms In December last while employed by Mr. Attenborough, Dunstan had stolen two cheque forms from Mr. Attenborough’s cheque book, made passable imitations of Mr. Attenborough’s signature and had negotiated the cheques in the purchase of a motor truck. ‘I think he is more foolish than criminal,’ Det. Killen told Mr. Trevor Martin (for Dunstan).
When arrested, said Det. Killen, Dunstan was employed as a laborer at the Cowra gas works and in his spare time assisted in the training of trotting horses. In refusing to grant Dunstan a bond, the judge, referring to a previous conviction against Dunstan in 1950 for cattle stealing, said: ‘This is your second step in crime.’
Three detectives, whose CIB car was in a collision at Matraville last night with an oil waggon, each received injuries to the spine and fractures of the pelvis, an X-ray showed today.
The detectives, Norman Thomas, Thomas Quinn and Frank Killen, have all shown improvement since their admission to Prince Henry Hospital.
Det.-Sgt. Bennett Toms, who was also a passenger in the police car, was treated in hospital for severe shock. He is still too ill to resume duty.
In the collision, which occurred in Bunnerong Road, the police car was wrecked.
Detectives In Mangled Car SYDNEY, Friday.- Four Sydney detectives were in a police car when a 10-ton oil tender capsized and crushed it to-night at Matraville.
Two of the detectives were admitted to Prince Henry Hospital with serious injuries. They are Senior-detective Norman Thomas, 44, and Senior-detective Thomas Quinn, 39.
Detective Frank Killen, 23, went home after treatment. Detective sergeant Bennet Tome escaped in jury.
The tender loaded with 500 oil drums, is believed to have got out of control while rounding a corner in Bunnerong Road. The tender veered across the road and capsized on the police car, crushing it.
Gates of memories will never close, how much I miss you Steve no one knows. days pass away into years, but I think about those memories with silent tears.
Love Chris, Jono, Callie, Dave, Callum, Chloe and Curtis
Published by Illawarra Mercury on June 7, 2017 – See more at: http://tributes.kiamaindependent.com.au/obituaries/kiamaindependent-au/obituary.aspx?n=steve-passmore&pid=185712412#_ga=2.44858980.1908542426.1497097293-641006719.1497097293
Stephen Passmore 28/09/44 – 07/06/06
Steve I never go to say goodbye when angels came and took you away. I just wanted to hold your hand so tight kiss you gently and say goodnight. And then just before you had to go I would tell you how much I love you so. I don’t know how I don’t know why. Steve I never got to say goodbye.
Love Chris, Jono Callie, Dave, Callum, Chloe and Curtis
Published by Illawarra Mercury on June 7, 2016 – See more at: http://tributes.illawarramercury.com.au/obituaries/illawarramercury-au/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=180226868#sthash.RgMPQKLo.dpuf
Scientific Police – December 1979 Front Row L – R: Det Sgt 2/c A.J. WOOD, Det Sgt 2/c E.J. KELLY, Det Insp J.E. SNOWDEN, Det Insp J.E. MERRETT ( O.I.C. ), Det Sgt 1/c R.R. BROWN, Det Sgt 3/c D.W. WARDROBE, Det Sgt 2/c B. GIBSON 2nd Row L – R: Det Sgt 3/c L.K. CAMPBELL, P.C. Sgt 2/c J.H. SOILAND, Det SenCon J.R. HESLOP, P.C. Const S.J. HENKEL, Det SenCon D.J. HUGHES, Dets Sgt 3/c D.J. CHIVERS. 3rd Row L – R: Det SenCon R.W. MILLINGEN, P.C. Cst P.J. MARCON, Det SenCon C.S. IRELAND, P.C. Cst G.V. HALLETT, Det Cst 1/c D.M. MARTIN, P.C. Cst R.N. ADAMS, P.C. Cst 1/c D.J. RANSOME 4th Row L – R: P.C. Cst B.W. RITCHIE, P.C. Cst P.E. McCAMLEY, P.C. Cst S.O. HASSELL, P.C. Cst 1/c N.J. RAYMOND, P.C. Cst N.M. MYRIS, Det SenCst S.G. PASSMORE ABSENT: Det Sgt 3/c N.G. EZART, Det Sgt 3/c R.W. JOHNSON, Det SenCon W.F.W. DAY, Det SenCon E.L. OOSTERHOFF, Det SenCon M.R. EDWARDS, Det SenCon R.A. NAPIER, Det SenCon R.H. MUNDAY, P.W. Det SenCon V.L. FLEMING, Det SenCst R.J.W. BARBER, P.C. SenCst D.J. TYSOE, P.C. Cst 1/c T.P. BAKER, Det Cst 1/c R.B. MUSGRAVE, P.C. Cst 1/c P.A. SANDEMAN, P.C. Cst 1/c J.A. AHERN, P.C. Cst 1/c P.J. HOLDER, P.C. Cst G.L. MURPHY, P.C. Cst G.C. RATCLIFFE, P.C. Cst G.J. CLAUSEN, P.C. Cst M. CONWAY
Beresford John KILL
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Beresford John KILL
aka Barry
Late of Corrimal
New South Wales Police Force
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Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 28 October 1963
Loving father and father in law of Evan, Alanna, Tahnee, Mitchel, Rowan and Leonie, Patrice and Nathan, Bethany and Matthew, Julieanne and Michael, Leonard.
Much loved Grandad to his 14 grandchildren and Sookie.
Aged 80 Years
At Peace
Relatives and friends are invited to attend Barry’s funeral service to be held in the chapel, Parsons Funeral Home, 278 Princes Highway Bulli on Tuesday June 13, 2017 at 10am.
Published by Illawarra Mercury on June 9, 2017 – See more at: http://tributes.illawarramercury.com.au/obituaries/illawarramercury-au/obituary.aspx?n=beresford-john-kill-barry&pid=185746807#sthash.s16AoXZC.dpuf
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John Patrick BEHAN
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John Patrick BEHAN
Late of Sydney
New South Wales Police Force
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Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 26 October 1953
May have been a Railway Detective prior to joining the NSW Police Force.
Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 – 1954),
Tuesday 22 May 1951, page 12
RAIL POLICE RAID HOUSES
Railway detectives yesterday recovered more than £1000 worth of goods allegedly stolen recently from the railways.
They recovered the goods in a raid on a house in Park Avenue, Pagewood.
Later they seized more goods in a raid on a house in Erskineville.
Detective Bert James, of the C.I.B., Railway detective A. R. Whittaker and five other railway detectives made the raids.
They raided the house in Pagewood when they saw a man drive an empty truck into the premises. They found the living-room stacked high with carpets, tyres, arid men’s sports coats.
The carpets included 12 wall-to-wall carpets and about 100 yards of carpet runner.
In the raid at Erskineville the detectives arrested a man carrying a sugar bag. The sugar bag contained 12 dozen new spoons and a quantity of men’s sand shoes.
Later, at Daceyville Police Station, the detectives charged a young married woman with having had in her custody goods suspected of being stolen.
At Central Police Station they laid similar charges against the woman’s three brothers.
Dearest father of Frances, Amanda, Joanne, Edwy (Ted) and Alexis.
Loved father-in-law of David Curtis, Ian Templeton, Brian Keogh and Erkin Aytekin.
Adored Grandfather of Ellen, Huon, Robbie, Erica, Laura, Aidan, Declan, Liam, Kade and Lauren and
Great Grandfather of Zac, Cooper and Josephine.
Loving brother of Alex and loving cousin of Jacqueline Milledge ( P/Women # 0171 )
Cherished by many.
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend TED’s service in the Magnolia Chapel, Macquarie Park Crematorium, Cnr Delhi and Plassey Roads, North Ryde, on Thursday 1st June 2017 at 2.00pm.
ALBERT & MEYER
AUSTRALIAN OWNED
Thornleigh 9484 3992
Published in The Sydney Morning Herald on May 29, 2017 – See more at: http://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/obituary.aspx?n=edwy-frederick-bunt-ted&pid=185641701#sthash.tQXUT2BZ.dpuf
Both Ted BUNT & Alex BUNT were cousins to Jacqueline Mary MILLEDGE, NSWPF – P/W 0171 who also became NSW State Coroner.
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995),
Wednesday 26 September 1990, page 5
Minister ‘ interfering ‘ with NRMA
The president of the NRMA has criticised a federal minister for endorsing an ” action group ” against the present NRMA leadership.
The Minister for Land Transport, Bob Brown, has endorsed publicly the Motorists’ Action Group, headed by the NSW cricket captain, Geoff Lawson, and a former
TV journalist, Jane Singleton.
The NRMA president, Jim Millner, accused Mr Brown yesterday of using his position ” to interfere . . . in the election procedures of a private organisation “.
With 2 million NRMA members in NSW, the council election next month is the biggest poll in NSW after the state election.
Thirteen candidates are standing for the six council posts. Traditionally, existing councillors have been re-elected, but this year the six member Motorists’ Action Group is making a concerted bid.
Other members of the group include the Mayor of Bathurst, Ann Ashwood, and a retired assistant Police Commissioner, Ted Bunt. Former swimming champion Dawn Fraser is running on her own ticket.
An executive of the ACT branch said incumbent councillors tended to get re-elected because very few members voted.
Doug lost his battle with Cancer. He was a great cop and a very decent bloke. He will be missed.
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Resident questions council rate figures
SAM NORRIS
UNIMPRESSED: Bolwarra resident Doug Preston
Maitland City Council has been called out on the maths behind a rate increase worth millions.
A pamphlet outlining the extent of potential rate rises has landed in letter boxes across Maitland and Doug Preston, for one, has questioned the full impact.
“The figures are very rubbery and something stinks,” Mr Preston said.
The average urban residential rates notice, based on a $148,000 land valuation, would climb 8.94 per cent annually from $986.54 to $1796.32 – an 82 per cent cumulative increase. Not 62 per cent as council has published.
Council defended the difference as a matter of reporting methods.
“Council acknowledges there are different views as to how the percentage increases should be expressed,” council’s acting general manager Bernie Mortomore said in a statement to the Mercury.
“Council has been active in distributing as much information as possible on both the increase proposed and the services to be provided by council over the period.”
The pamphlet is part of council’s community consultation, which includes 10am and 6pm public meetings today at the town hall, on proposed rate increases.
The rate rise would affect business, farming and residential landholders, with successive increases over seven years starting in July 2014.
Mr Preston estimated the increase would likely hit ratepayers even harder when the Valuer-General reviewed property values in 2014 and 2017.
“Even if it’s a conservative 3 per cent it will add about $100 a year and the end result will be more like $2000,” he said.
The proposed rate increase is the product of surveys to gauge what services residents wanted and what they were prepared to pay as council faced a $92 million deficit within 10 years.
“I don’t agree with council’s argument that rates must increase,” Mr Preston said.
But council said it had worked hard to communicate the proposed increases clearly.
“Council has been active in distributing as much information as possible on both the increase proposed and the services to be provided by council over the period,” Mr Mortomore said
Patients mortgaging homes to pay for life-saving drugs
June 23, 20138:00am
Homes mortgaged for life-saving drugs
PATIENTS in Eastern Europe and even poverty stricken Greece and Italy are getting access to lifesaving medicines ahead of people in Australia, who in some cases are being forced to remortgage their homes to afford the costly treatments.
As critical government subsidies are refused or delayed in Federal Cabinet, two pharmaceutical companies have dramatically decided they won’t reapply for a subsidy after being knocked back up to seven times.
Their decision has left patients who need the life-extending melanoma treatment Zelboraf facing a $9,400 a month bill for treatment.
Meanwhile, the small number of people with the rare Pompe’s Disease which impairs muscle function and reduces life expectancy are expected to afford $400,000 a year for the treatment Myozyme.
And other crucial medicines which have been approved for subsidy by an independent expert government committee are months later still waiting for cabinet to approve the funding.
Former policeman Doug Preston risked death if he waited for Cabinet to approve subsidy for his $3,500 a month prostate cancer treatment Zytiga. He had to remortgage his house to find the money.
“If I hadn’t done that I would have got past the no return point, my back would have decayed, my legs would have crumbled, I would be bed bound and waiting for death,” he said, explaining that he has a new lease of life since he started the drug.
Zytiga was approved for subsidy by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee in March, July and November 2012 but the drug company was initially unhappy with the price it was being offered, delaying the subsidy approval.
A new anti-clotting medicine Pradxa was approved for subsidy two years ago and then again in March but 100,000 stroke patients who could benefit from it are still waiting for cabinet to fund it.
Under an agreement the government has with the medicines industry it has six months to approve a medicine if it is approved for subsidy and a price agreement is reached with the company.
The knock-backs and delays come as a study commissioned by pharmaceutical lobby group Medicines Australia found last month that the number of new medicines placed on the nation’s drug subsidy scheme was the lowest in 20 years in 2011-12.
Just 15 new medicines were added to the scheme that year, 40 per cent fewer than the 20-year average of 25 new drugs a year, the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies found.
Many Australians get free access to breakthrough new drugs through clinical trials but the number of new clinical trials approved in Australia is also down 30 per cent in the past six years.
Medicines Australia chief Brendan Shaw says patients waiting for cabinet to approve funding for their medicines are now worried the caretaker period where government ceases entering contracts during the election may further delay subsidies.
Medical Oncology Group of Australia chair Professor Gary Richardson says Australia’s drug approval system is out of date a needs to be reviewed.
“We are now falling behind Eastern European countries with the availability of medicines,” he said.
Drugs should be reimbursed earlier and monitored for five years after which their performance and price should be reassessed, he said.
Dr Shaw says the pharmaceutical industry wants all parties to agree after the election to a new framework for approving medicine subsidies that will speed up the process and provide certainty.
