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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 08, 1943
Page
4
Fragmentary text from a historical page discusses gender equality and qualification standards. It mentions women and men, titles, and an honour, with references to certificates and participants. The readable portion includes phrases about enlarging access and the idea of equal status.
Classified notice advertises visitors' register books on the Licensing Act and a range of secondhand goods for sale including machinery parts bicycles piano duets violins and music accompaniments. Items listed include tools chains wheels and axles with prices and contact details for inspection or purchase.
W H Logie chair of the Citrus Council argues for a district central packing shed system to reform orchard practice. He proposes manpower conservation, state standardisation of grade, grower controlled pricing, and government funding via district sheds to stabilize income and reduce wasteful packing and transport practices.
The Post-War Reconstruction Committee leaders discuss funding for road works, potential outside funds for major projects like the Perth Causeway, and the limits of bitumen supply. They outline priorities for metropolitan, country and developmental roads, and note the long timeline to surface 4000 miles of main routes given current resources.
Australia ships thousands of tons of dehydrated butter to Britain and Pacific islands. Dehydration reduces moisture to under 0.2 percent and saves space, allowing two grades: reconstituted butter for consumption and ghee for military use. New plants arose in Hobart, Sydney, and Melbourne, with 576,000 tins of rancid butter also processed.
Justice Roper holds compensation must cover loss of profits and business disruption from Army impressment. He finds National Security Regulations unconstitutional where just terms not offered. Land taken must be valued by established principles of compulsory taking, potentially reopening thousands of claims previously settled by Army Hirings Branch which denied profit loss.
The Army plans a large vegetable growing project in the Burdekin Delta to supply the market with sweet corn radish lettuce carrots and other crops. Spray irrigation and ditches will support crops while civilian labor is used and U.S. infantry may be employed. The scheme costs over £30,000 and Captain Johnson of Louisiana assists.
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