Attractive programme at Gloucester Park features mile and five furlongs races
Gloucester Park hosts a seven event programme starting at 1 15 pm with gates open at 12 30 pm. The Adelaide Handicap at 3 35 pm features strong entrants from farm horses such as Kolrock Red Runner King s Guide Minting and Ques Gift. Other races include a 2 mile breeders event and five events of mile and five furlongs with notable horses listed for WA breeders handicap WAYVILLE HANDICAP and GAWLER HANDICAP.
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Gloucester Park
Kolrock
Red Runner
King's Guide
Minting
Ques Gift
Strathalbyn Handicap at One Mile Five Furlongs
In a crowded Strathalbyn meeting the handicap race over one mile and five furlongs drew listed contenders such as Lin's Relic Golden Eagle Royal Sheik and Master Witips with odds and weights shown. The field included Bay Beauty Lady Medi Percy's Lad Vivacious Rollo Courageous and several others as officials set the starter for the £4200 prize in a brisk afternoon chase.
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Jackie Donald
Thebes Co
Balgay Jim
Broadell
Tarabon
David Dixie
Admiral Park
Globe's Past Ao
Betty Royal
Rohda Loutere
Lady Cyamag
Royal Sheik
Master Witips
Lord Sheik
Black Ella
Bay Beauty
Lady Medi
Percy’s Lad
Vivacious
Rollo
Courageous
Silver Emeem
Cloudy Range
Admiral Pronto
Tennessee Wood
Golconda
Glen Wilfred
Lutana
Americans At Cricket Exhibition Stirs Marrickville Crowd
Americans playing cricket for Marrickville displayed baseball instincts and novelty as they built a 134 record, with Alterator and Hardin opening and Closser belting a six for Kentucky. Waverley keepers Hackett guided fielders while Hendricks and Closser drew cheers.
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Aley
Algo
Marrickville
H. Lay Fence
Squ
Gell
Jimmy Delph
California
Waverley
A. Alterator
Cpl
Charlie Hardin
Arkansas
Alterator
Hardin
Lieut
Jack Hackett
Altera[ter
Wayne Closer
Kentucky
Jong-on
Johnny Hendricks
Montana
Closser
War news and calls for national unity in Australia
In Australia amid global conflict Prime Minister Curtin faces a looming federal election as leaders urge spiritual resilience and a non party government. The piece commends unity across nations and cautions partisan politics undermining the war effort. It notes Allied commanders praising spiritual strength aiding military resolve.
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Australia
John Curtin
United Nations
Fruit Growing Industry Trust Fund Act Amended for Citrus Levies
The Under Secretary for Agriculture announced that the Fruit Growing Industry Trust Fund Act now collects levies on citrus fruits in addition to apples and pears. The fund aids growing, marketing, storage, and disease control, with a committee of WA fruit leaders and Dept of Agriculture officials overseeing it. Levy rates for apples, pears, and citrus apply to marketing from May 1 and are collected via auctioneer, private treaty seller, or direct buyers, monthly remittances to the committee.
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G. Ko Baron Hay
Fruit Growing Industry Trust Fund
Cites
Irons T
Central
Cites Council
Teast Fund
Fis
J. McNeil Martin
E. S. Hester
Western Australian Fruit Growers Association
H.R. Powell
Department of Agriculture
Powell
Baron Hay
Apple and Pear Marketing Board
Nis
Vetter
Mae
Submarine Menace Prompts U S Navy Warnings
Walter Lipumann warns in the Herald-Tebune that 142 submarines have sunk ships, while Germany builds more subs than ever. He says U S shipyards lag in launches, subs outpace escorts, and the German navy stays several jumps ahead with no hope of sufficient escorts this year.
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Slmarine
Dubhaas
Walter Lipumann
N.Y
Herald-Tee Bune
South Pacific Fighting Force Expletive Speech Cited
A transcript captures a blunt insurgent style speech urging unity and disdain for Arity Navy and Marines. The speaker demands all personnel adopt the South Pacific Fighting Force identity, threatening to alter uniforms and stamp the insignia on the seat of their pants.
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Sventieien
South Pacific
Navy
Ant
Ancient preservative aids vast Allied wheat reserves
An analysis of an ancient preservative discovered by archaeologists reveals a mixture of sulphur and tan rock phosphate. The method, costing about £10 per hundred tons, could preserve wheat at low cost, suggesting large future potential for defense and food supply.
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Pharoah
IT GOT THERE Strange things happen to communications in war
When the Japanese cut the undersea cable between India and Sumatra a bank in Madras could not reach its Medan branch directly. The Madras bank sent a wire to Bombay then radio to London and radiograms to New York San Francisco and finally Medan. The 700 mile gap yielded a 27000 mile relay through globals networks as described in Popular Mechanics.
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India
Sumatra
Madras
Medan
Bay of Bengal
Bombay
London
R.A
New York
San Francisco
U. A
Bermuda censors cluster in hotels after arrivals
An American resident in England received a letter with clippings intended to pass Bermuda censorship. The letter claimed about a dozen clippings were enclosed, but only one Bermudian clipping was found. The clipping stated that over 800 newly arrived censors had taken up residence in Bermuda hotels.
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England
Aid
Bermuda
Bermudas
Selections for Gloucester Park Turf Meet
Runners listed for Gloucester Park including Lord Orish Royal Gus and Norwood Handicap with entries such as Arabian Sheik Von Sheik and Wirra Rosetta. Other notable horses include Lee Tennessee Huon Cloud and Lady Adelaide Handicap entrants like Direct Lady Adelaide and Queen's Gift Royal Emblem.
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Alfred Liam
Rushworth Lad
Togo
Desert Land Royal Bedouin
Sergeant Murphy
Bunjil Lady Yor
Lucia Machine
Rise and Shine
Julian Wilver
Lee's Choice
Globe
Lee Tennessee
Judy Mavista
Glenelg
Norwood
Huon Cloud Wirra Roseitta
Adelaide
Apples Picked Boost by Permanent Staff and Land Army Aid
At Wawarra Karragulien 83 bushels of Gransy Smith apples were picked from a tree reworked eight years ago. Earlier, permanent staff aided by land army girls picked 1 373 dump cases in one day, and 2 500 cases in two days. This shows good fruit and strong help, honoring staff and woodwork by land army girls.
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Wawarra
Karragulien
Gransy Smith
Cat Instinct on the Run: Wartime Ship Cat's Double Jumps
The Scotsman reports a ship’s cat aboard HS Wild Swan leapt overboard twice before the voyage’s end, was rescued both times, and on a third escape swam to another destroyer where the crew allowed it to stay. The cat’s kittens were lost with the vessel.
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HS. Wild Swan
The
Scotsman
Flames and families entwined in a cousin capupeaniisiing tale
A terse item notes a complex family entanglement involving a cousin and unnamed parties, with a call to reference for advertisers. The fragment implies social or gossip content within a local paper, urging readers to engage with advertisers through the same publication.
Classifieds Advice and Listing Newspapers for Adverts
A playful note explaining how readers can earn money by placing ads across twenty seven regional papers. It lists papers such as THE EASTERN RECORDER, THE BRIDGETOWN ADVOCATE, THE MANJIMUP MAIL, THE NORTHERN GRAZIER & MINER, and many others, with a remark on rates applying when an advertisement appears in all twenty seven papers.
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Eeven
Kaellerherrin
Toodyay Merald
Bridgetown Advocate
Fridse Town
Manjimup Mail
Avon Argus
Cunderdio
Mullewa Mail & Magnet
WONGAN-BALLIDU_BUDGET
Perensori
Boyup Brook Bulletin
Midlands Advocate
Mosys
Wrerly Gazette
Gemalliza
Southern Sentinel
Mr. Darker
Harvey-Waroona Mail
Norseman-Esperance News
Coolgardie Miner
Preston Mail
Donnybrook
Inland Watch
Laverton
Pemberton Post
Weethnschem
Dowerin Guardian
Dampier Herald
Rencubbtin
Southern Cross News
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R. .N. Percival
Sir Raymond
Royal Gas
Red Walls
Sen
Master Stretta
Barnett Bros
Hay Street
Perth
Bennett
Gawler
Katee
Flora Lady
Wise General
Princess
Linga
Lady Lizzie
John Donald Huon Cloud
Oxford Girl
Don Sebastian
Minting Ser
Lulu Mick
Royal Emblem
King’s Guides
Storm Cloud
Cavan
Austin's Globe
Bertha
Chas. Watson & CO
Barrack Street
W.A
Bulletinatsreaiis' National
Africa
Witten Chovelt
Washington
President Roosevelt
Federal
Sailin’s
Phim
Politics and Pwar
Fruit Growing Industry Trust Fund Act
Levies
Wayville Baricar
DERBY
Lord
Orish Royal
Gus
Gawler Handicap
Kafeela
Strathalbyn Handicap
Royal Sheik Lin
Ashe
Els
Saab
Muresk
Australorp
F. T. Whitfield
Kellerberrin
West
the Perpetual
Executors, Trustees & Agency Co
W.A.), Ltd
St. George's Terrace
Howard Street
Our Country
Coentry
Itis Merstes
United Press
Bsi
Tern Advertiser
Welliney
North
Widlane Temes Orree
Easteen Courier
James. Goss
William Street
Bones
Bobb
Jett
Metropolitas Mari
W.A. Freemason
W.A. Freemasom
Hayst
Parker
Hotel Australia
Frank Guilfoyle
Your
Goldfields Club
Ken Angel
Dr. Pier
Wellington Streets
NAVE
Duis
Carvin
Farewell Ofaril
Gosnell
Trjnich
Tarsus Stra
Rawleigh
M. W. Calling
Rawteastealer
Armadale
Ound
the United Press Ltd
Hew Street
Bissare
Mount Barker Co-Operative Ltd
Mount Barker
Jonathans
Cleopatras
Dunns
Delicious Democrats
Granny Smith
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