Prices and production factors in Western Australia and New South Wales
The report discusses producer prices, costs, and marketing differences for commodities in Western Australia and New South Wales. It notes price differentials between regions, anticipated producer gains, and the impact of costs on honey production and distribution during wartime. It mentions figures like 6d and 7Ad. and references the pool system and transportation costs.
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Western Australia
W.A
N.S.W
Eastes
Tougher Than Merino
Australian goats endure Central Australia’s blistering heat and harsh terrain. In a desert landscape the goat thrives on scarce feed, providing milk and mutton where sheep would perish.
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Central
Australia
Labour Party’s rural industry achievements questioned
The Primary Producers Association General Secretary is asked who introduced Section 31 of the Agricultural Bank Act amid claims Labour’s 1933 government shaped reforms. The bulletin lists Labour’s acts, including extending statutory liens, opposing Country Party repeal efforts, and references future bulletins.
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Agricultural Bank Act
Primary Producers’ Association
Country Party
Labour
Agricultural Bank
Sit
Great Southern
Butchers Threatened With Licence Loss Over Meat Racket
A government report accuses unscrupulous butchers of overcharging above ceiling prices to stock meat beyond quotas. When exposed, the state forced sales at ceiling prices, causing losses to offenders. Repeated offences could cancel licences. Some traders paid above ceiling to secure 100 units, then surrendered stock at ceiling value, losing profit.
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A_ CANBERRA
War Bond Sales Honor Sergeant Basilone in New Jersey
Sergeant John Basilone who earned the Medal of Honor for killing 38 Japanese on Guadalcanal returned on furlough to Rincon? New Jersey and fellow residents of Raritan bought 1.3 million dollars in war bonds in his honor.
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New Jersey
John Basilone
Guadalcanal
Raritan
Profiteers flag frontier ambush cost Germans dive bombers
Sergeant Albert F. Ford recounts a North African trap where Nazi night raids on an American camp were baited by fires and anti aircraft guns. As the German dive bombers approached, the artillery fired and most planes were shot down with few escaping.
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U.S
Albert F. Ford
U.S. Army
Washington, D.C
Ford
Army Lawyers Are Erudite Group At JAG School
The 11th Officer Training Class of the Judge Advocate General's School at the University of Michigan comprises 70 members in the U.S. Army Middle West. Nineteen have law degrees including eleven from Harvard, four from Michigan, and four from Fordham. The group includes three former mayors, three state judges, and five former members of Congress.
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Judge Advocate General's School
University of Michigan
S. Middle West
U.S. Army
Oi Law Schools
Harvard University
Michigan
Fordham Universities
Congress
Tennyson vision of future world unity and law
Poem excerpt from Locksley Hall imagining a future federation where nations join under universal law. It envisions a peaceful world parliament and the earth resting in harmony, contrasting with war drums and martial imagery.
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Tennyson
Locksley Hall
Inventions Born From WarTime Shortages Across Continents
wartime restrictions spur practical innovations from Australia Canada and Britain. Australians publish army ideas while Canadians substitute metals for tin and British workers weave Spitfire seats from carpet sweepings. A South African creates self igniting cigarettes and a fuel efficient carburetor, a Johannesburg doctor patents a portable anaesthetic unit, and new plaster casts cost less. A Johannesburg inventor reconditions crown corks. A soap bubble concrete idea yields heat resistant blocks floated in water.
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Canada
Equality Means Equality Racial Strife Prompted by Harlem Riots
The Harlem riots in August exposed a growing tension between black and white Americans. The piece argues the conflict centers on blacks seeking promised equality while whites resist moves toward social and political parity.
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Harlem
United States
N.Y
Vera Morton Named Florence Nightingale of Mores in New Guinea
Mrs Vera Morton known as the Florence Nightingale of Mores for Mores by returns to New Guinea to aid sick and wounded Australian troops. Former matron of the Red Cross Convalescent Home at Rouna now serves as Red Cross hospital visitor in the New Guinea area after the army took over the home. She left Moresby with an illuminated address signed by all who passed through the home.
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Vera Morton
Florence Nightingale
Moresby
New Guinea
Red Cross
Rouna
Port Moresby
Morton
V A C C Saves Flying Boat Crew Off North Queensland
Night observers at a coastal post in North Queensland spotted three sea flares and alerted authorities. A Catalina searched the area, found the Walrus aircraft adrift, and assisted in rescuing the uninjured crew. The Walrus was towed to base for engine work and inspection.
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Queensland
Drakeford
Volunteer Air Observers’ Corps
R.A.A.F
Catalina
Shrakeford
Vajolc
Shopping Centre Planned for Ford Willow Run Employees
The Defence Plant Corporation authorises construction of a million dollar shopping centre for Willow Run bomber plant workers in Detroit. The complex will host a nursery for children of working mothers, five and ten cent stores and offices for a doctor dentist and an optometrist.
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Detroit
Defence Plant Corporation
Japanese Americans Guard Germans in Alabama Peanut War Effort
Japanese American soldiers guard German POWs harvesting Alabama peanuts valued at 30 million dollars. Veterans of the Afrika Corps work in crews of ten, each crew with three American guards of Japanese extraction.
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Trox
Alabama
Afrika Corps
Thought for the Week on personality and spirit
A brief quotation discusses the animating essence in man described as spirit or personality. It states that this inner essence shines through eyes voice and manners and defines each individual.
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Chas. W. Elliot
Post-War Reconstruction Conference Addresses WA Housing
WA post war planners outline housing shortfalls and substandard dwellings need urgent action. They call for local authority enforcement, health standards, and new by-laws to lift living conditions and plan a five year housing program.
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