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FREMANTLE Ho ERALD Volume 24 N 29 Fremantle’s own INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday July 20, 2013 Letterboxed to Fremantle, Beaconsfi eld, East Fremantle, Hilton, North Fremantle, Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 www.fremantleherald.com O’Connor, Samson, South Fremantle and White Gum Valley Email: [email protected] BRENDANB FOSTER A FAILED global expansion has seen one of Fremantle’s pioneering companies collapse. TiltingTilting atat WD Moore & Co has been trading in the city since 1862, but administrators were called in on June 6 and it’s now being wound up and stock auctioned off . Formed by one Fremantle’s “merchant princes”, William Dalgety Moore, the company fi rst sold liquor from a warehouse in windmillswindmills Henry Street (now the Moore’s gallery) before moving into windmills 30 years later. Moore’s grandson Geoff Moore took over the running of the company in 1979 and is devastated the business deal he thought was going to help him take on the world has sent the family company bust. Speaking from the O’Connor warehouse they moved to in 1954, Mr Moore said he’d tried to fi nd a Failed global push kills off way out of the fi nancial strife but the business was “now all gone”. pioneering Freo company Two years ago WD Moore was going gangbusters and an off er came in from Singapore-based fi rm Pan Asian Holdings to take up a 51 per cent share. “These guys came to Perth looking for a foothold for their products in Australia and they asked if were interesting in selling Bikies taunt Cockburn mayor our business and we said ‘yes ff we would’,” Mr Moore told the their presence from an Organised going to have co ee en-masse Portelli said about the call from by BRENDAN FOSTER ff this Thursday evening at Phoenix the Rebel. Herald. Crime Squad tip-o . The crime “They were going to take our REBELS bikies have taunted squad was looking for council shopping centre. “Though for most part the “Hopefully they have calmed conversation was reasonable, the products to Asia. Into expanded Cockburn mayor Logan help in getting the gang evicted. markets—global markets—what Howlett they’re moving into The mayor confi rmed a gang down and it was just heat of the statement that he would look to moment stuff .” could be better than that. residential Coogee because the member called him, but says he buy up homes in Aubin Grove and Cr Portelli said he got a phone Atwell for his clubrooms, if they But the deal soured an now Mr council has shut down their didn’t feel threatened. Moore’s company has been left “I did get a phone call, but I call from a Rebel after last month were kicked out of Spearwood, clubhouse in industrial Bibra putting up a motion to deny the was not appropriate. Guess where owing Pan Asian $336,000. don’t think it’s appropriate or “We are a 151-year-old Lake. necessary to comment,” he said. planning application. Although I live?” The bikies also hinted to a the motion lost, he asked that A Rebel member who didn’t business—the second oldest councillor they were planning a Threatening his “no” vote be recorded in the want to be named said the gang businesses in the state. mass protest—over a coff ee—at minutes. was eyeing off property in the “It’s dead.” the Phoenix shops across the road “I didn’t feel threatened The council then voted for a suburbs. • Continued page 2 from the council’s headquarters and there are always diff erent deferral in order to get a briefi ng “Yeah, a couple of our guys on Thursday evening, shortly after responses to circumstances and with police and talk to the Rebels. have houses in the suburbs,” he Find the Fake Ad & WIN a the Herald’s deadline. outcomes of council decisions.” It also wanted to check with said, without mentioning where. Chance for a Feast for 2 Last week the city refused the But councillor Steve Portelli its lawyers on where it stood He wouldn’t say if the gang Rebels’ bid to get retrospective confi rmed a biker had rung Mr regarding liability and community was planning a coff ee sit-in at the approval for their clubhouse on Howlett “threatening to set up risk. Phoenix Shops any time in the Kembla Drive, where they’ve been their clubrooms in a Coogee “The 12-minute conversation near future. gathering since October last year. residential property”. was fairly amicable and he “Well, you will have to come The city only found out about “He also suggested they were understood my position,” Cr down and see,” he said. For details, see the Competitions page LOG BOOK SERVICE QUOTE New Car Warranty Protection Autobahn Service Centres BRAKE are authorised to carry out the manufacturer’s Digital TV Points SERVICING TV ANTENNAS LAN & Networking log book services. 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For years drivers have avoided the port city late at Hairdresser night because of long queues and frustrated, boozed-up revellers destroying everything at Salon Velvet Helmet in sight waiting for a cab. come and let your hair down... This week the Rudd government gave the council $115,000 to relocate the South Terrace rank to the western end of Henderson Street Mall. • Melissa Parke and Brad Pettitt have hailed a new cab rank as a WA taxi council CEO Olwyn good thing for portsiders. North Fremantle’s Williams says the council needs sort out a few planning issues Fremantle for a long time.” understand the importance of hidden little treasure. with the rank, which will be Mayor Brad Pettitt says the safety at the ranks. open from 11pm to the early rank will be better for everyone She says the funds will help Jacqi welcomes new hours. and he looks forward to the improve security for drivers and “The rank is on a pedestrian return of late-night cabbies. passengers, with better lighting clients and old friends! thoroughfare so we need “The current rank is not in an and CCTV. assurance from council the taxis ideal location as it is too far from “People should be able go out won’t be in any danger,” she told any public toilets and too close on the weekend and get a taxi the Herald. to the bus stop and clutters up home without having to worry 261 Queen Victoria St, North Fremantle “There could be hundreds of the footpath leading to potential about their safety. Open 6 days a week by appointment Ph: 9200 2239 people lining for cabs, and the problems,” he says. “Improved lighting and [email protected] www.rapunzeled.com.au taxis have only one access point Fremantle federal Labor MP CCTV cameras have been getting in and out. Melissa Parke says anyone who demonstrated to reduce “If one gets caught in a melee has tried to hail a cab late at aggression and anti-social you won’t see taxis down in night over the weekend would behaviour at taxi ranks.” Global tilt dooms fi rm •From page 1 “Other guys, where are they “How can a company last Mr Moore wouldn’t be drawn going to go? They are too old to 150 years and not do something Campaign on how the relationship with get jobs anywhere else.” right?” Pan Asian went sour. Mr Moore said thousands of Geoff Lacy, whose family ran Café The closure has meant farmers would “be bleeding” Hillview Station at Meekatharra sacking 15 staff , some who because of the company’s for 90 years, said WD Moore Tuesday 30 July - 6pm meal had worked there almost fi ve demise. meant a lot to cockies in the (optional) downstairs). decades. “There are people who have bush. 7pm Talk upstairs. “We have a man that is depended on this business, it He popped into see Mr Rosie O'Grady's, William St, 68-years-old, that has been here wasn’t just keeping us in jobs, Moore after he heard on the Fremantle (opp Town Hall) for 48 years, who just wanted we kept a lot of other people in bush telegraph the business was Gold Coin donation another couple of years,” he jobs,” he said.