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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 11, 1944
Page
2
Form guide shows seven race card with last six months performances. Open fields suggest long priced winners possible. Pacers and trotters listed with codes and odds style markers for Saturday at Gloucester Park.
Lightning thrusts by American forces in Normandy and Brittany signal a new blitzkrieg concept as fighting reshapes the war in France and a possible German disaster. In Perth, trains halted five days causing transport strain, a tribunal to probe tramway issues, and William Allan McInnes Green named Perth Town Clerk, with plans for city reconstruction. Women in service may wear civilian clothes on long leaves, a shift reflecting glamour and morale.
A campaign message urges women in the countryside to vote Yes on August 19, outlining benefits like planned employment for soldiers and families, better housing and wages, organized marketing for affordable food, planned medical services, and price controls. A No vote is warned to bring unemployment, dull, housing shortages, high prices, and profiteering. Officially authorized by the Australian Commodumist Party.
The text notes that long-serving women feel the absence of glamour and that femininity demands bills. It questions how women who traded civilian clothing for enlistment will manage coupons, a point left to be explained.
Fred Searle, living at Randwick for five decades, was NSW wicket keeper in the eighties and later opened what may have been Australia's first exclusively sports- Goods shop in the nineties at Imperial Arcade corner George Street. He also was a noted sculler connected to cricket veteran.
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