1212NEWS THURSDAY JULY 2 2020 COURIERMAIL.COM.AU Forgetful End to leagues club truck driver fined saga is approaching ROCKHAMPTON ROCKHAMPTON Investments Commission in Federal Government’s fair en- $9725 to CocaCola Amatil. Stephen Smith, Ellen Farlow, KERRI-ANNE MESNER April this year reveal titlement guarantee scheme. The company is expected Wayne Daniels, Dominique VANESSA JARRETT $2,585,150.34 was owed to A 2018 report states $53,217.87 to be wound up by August this McGregor and secretary A TRUCK driver has been bus- creditors with $495,694.23 was paid of this. year. Damian Bolton. ted for the fourth time not MORE than three years since paid since the liquidation date. At the time of the club’s The club was registered in Gavin Shuker, under the complying with heavy vehicle CQ Leagues Club went into The company’s assets were closure, 25 staff were employ- 1974 and was formerly known Rocky Sports Club, purchased national laws. receivership, the company, estimated at $505,665.06 with ed. as Brothers Leagues Club. the vacant property for a re- Bradley John Spencer, 48, which left a debt of more than no future income expected. The report outlined 69 un- The CQ NRL Bid Team ac- ported price of $341,000 in pleaded guilty on June 30 in $2.5 million, is expected to be Employee wages and secured creditors were owed quired the club in 2009 and September 2017. Rockhampton Magistrates wound up by next month. superannuation owed was es- $2,482,336.34. changed the name to the CQ Four gaming machines Court to one count of provid- Insolvency company Wor- timated at $815. Of this, $153,709 was owed Leagues Club to support a bid were also purchased through ing false information in a docu- rells Rockhampton was ap- There was a further to the Deputy Commissioner for a National Rugby League Tomkins in late 2017 for ment given to an official. pointed liquidator of the $101,999 owed in employee of Taxation, $247,391 to the team in the region. $24,000 and cigarettes stock Police prosecutor Casparus company on February 15, 2017. leave and redundancy payouts Department of Natural Re- Directors included Laur- for $300. Schoeman said the false infor- Documents submitted to however it is understood this sources, Mines and Energy ence Gorman, John McDevitt, VANESSA.JARRETT@ mation was detected in Spen- the Australian Securities and has been paid out under the (manual tax amount) and Stephen Parle, John Jenkins, CAPNEWS.COM.AU, 4990 0702 cer’s work diary on August 28 after he was intercepted at Woodstock. Defence lawyer Terry Tum- mon said his client filled the times out while under pres- sure, in order to get paid, and tried to “piece together the trips accurately”. He said the prior convic- tions were the result of having worked in share trucks and forgetting to take his diary with him, but his client was now driving just the one truck. Mr Tummon said Spencer, who lived in Rockhampton and was a single dad to three children, had been driving pro- fessionally for 25 years, includ- ing driving taxis for three years. He said one of the other convictions was for not writing down his destination. Magistrate Cameron Press, who pointed out the priors, said “he seems to have an ex- cuse for everything”. Mr Tummon argued the of- fences were “distinctly differ- Firefighters dampen down hot spots following a fire at a house in Bridge St, Mt Morgan, yesterday morning. ent”. The court heard another conviction was for Spencer driving more than the maxi- NEIGHBOURS WOKE TO EXPLOSIONS FROM FIRE mum allowed hours in one day. “You need to start taking MT MORGAN received multiple reports of “thick She confirmed there was a partial explosions, and went to investigate. these requirements very seri- black smoke” coming from a house on collapse during the blaze, but could One of the pair went to see if the ously,” Mr Press said. ADEN STOKES Bridge St. not confirm whether there was any family were OK. Four adults and one “They are there for your A Queensland Fire and Emergency damage to adjacent properties. child were taken to Mt Morgan protection and the protection POLICE are reportedly not treating a Services spokeswoman said the fire, Five crews attended the blaze and Hospital as a precaution. of the community.” house fire in Mt Morgan yesterday which gutted the house, was arrived on scene within 15 minutes of There were no reports of injury. He ordered Spencer to pay morning as suspicious. extinguished at 10.30am, over two receiving the call out. [email protected], a $1500 fine with a traffic con- About 7.50am, firefighters and a half hours after it started. Two neighbours said they woke to 4930 4214 viction recorded. Local news is here to stay. themorningbulletin.com.au gladstoneobserver.com.au BCME01Z03MA - V1 COURIERMAIL.COM.AU THURSDAY JULY 2 2020 SHARE YOUR NEWS NEWS 13 CONTACT: Gladstone 4970 3020 ROCKHAMPTON 4930 4212 13 Man bitten by snake KOONGAL House price growth A MAN was taken to hospital after he was bitten by a snake in North Rockhampton on Tuesday night. At 7.07pm, paramedics were called to reports of a snake bite at a private residence in Koon- second best in Qld gal. GLADSTONE price was up 2.2 per cent, sec- demand for rental properties median sale price of $265,000, duty during COVID-19. A man, believed to be in his ond only to Noosa for price has pushed weekly rents high- an increase of 3.9 per cent. Ms Mercorella said stamp 30s, suffered a snake bite to his RODNEY STEVENS performance for the first three er.” A positive influence on the duty should also be removed leg. months of 2020,” the report The only downside for Queensland housing market for people over 65, there He was taken to Rock- THE Gladstone housing mar- said. Gladstone out of the report was the $680 million Home- should be a 50 per cent cut in hampton Hospital in a stable ket is in a very strong position, The city’s tightening rental was the unit market. Builder scheme, a tax-free stamp duty for residential in- condition. with median house price market continued the positive “Over the March quarter, grant introduced by the Fed- vestment properties commit- growth the second best in the trend, with a vacancy rate of the median unit price de- eral Government in a bid to ted to the permanent rental state over the past year, ac- just 1.6 per cent, making Glad- creased five per cent to support the residential build- market for three years or cording to the Real Estate In- stone one of the tightest rental $170,000,” the report stated. ing industry through the coro- more, plus a 40 per cent cut in Road rage dustry of Queensland. markets of all major locations “That said, over the year navirus pandemic. stamp duty for all other resi- The REIQ June Queens- in the state. ending March 2020, the me- To continue the trend, dential properties. land Market Monitor Report “During the lockdown, it dian unit price increased 0.3 REIQ CEO Antonia Merco- “Queensland’s residential incident says in the less than 2400sq m appears that the situation has per cent to $171,000.” rella called for an extension of real estate sector is worth over house market, Gladstone’s got tighter still with the num- In comparison, Bunda- the first homeowners grant to $1 trillion and employs over MT MORGAN median price increased by 3.9 ber of rental properties adver- berg’s housing market record- established housing, a 50 per 50,000 Queenslanders di- per cent to $281,000. tised for sale falling even ed a 5.6 per cent drop in prices cent reduction in develop- rectly,” she said. POLICE are investigating an “Plus, over the quarter, further,” the report said. over 12 months to $276,000, ment application costs, plus a RODNEY.STEVENS@GLADSTONE alleged assault in Mt Morgan Gladstone’s median house “Meanwhile, the increasing while Rockhampton had a 75 per cent reduction in stamp OBSERVER.COM.AU 4970 3017 yesterday in what is believed to be a road rage incident. Two men were reportedly involved in the incident on Coronation Dr just after mid- day. One man was taken to hos- pital with facial injuries just be- fore 12.30pm. DRIVER Defence boost INVOLVED SHOALWATER BAY IN FATAL THE Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area will be among HIT-AND-RUN Australian military infrastruc- ture to benefit after the gov- ernment announced it will STILL NOT invest a record $270 billion in defence capability and infra- structure over the next decade. FOUND Through this plan, there will be a $3 billion investment over the coming decade into The car that was involved in a hit-and-run which killed 76-year-old Jim Murphy. The car was found abandoned on Harvey St, off Port Curtis Rd. the refreshing and redevelop- Inset: Hit-and-run victim Jim Murphy. ment of defence facilities in Queensland. The 76-year-old was crossing the Mr Murphy was taken to left the hotel, however he was not The government said local ROCKHAMPTON road at Archer St outside the Rockhampton hospital in a serious intoxicated. industry will be engaged in the Brunswick Hotel at 8.20pm on August condition with severe internal and leg Mr Murphy has been remembered delivery of these projects and VANESSA JARRETT 17, 2019 when he was struck by a car. injuries.