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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 16, 1940
Page
2
The Graziers' Association executive committee voted to refer the issue of stock routes to the Pastures Protection Board and to association branches for consideration. Proposals urge motor traffic relief and safe stock movement along main highways with stock routes beside roads.
London reports 3,500 village organisers have gathered 10,700 tons of metal scrap for Armaments within nine weeks. Nection continues at 1,000 tons weekly with railings 150 tons weekly and 1,000 tons recovered from wrecked ships. Huge trophies of the last war are being melted down and derelict cars are broken up as well.
Notices report parachutes found across England and Scotland with no parachutists located. Police, military and Home Guards conducted a widescale search overnight and into morning. experts believe the drops were an invasion hoax intended to trigger fear. Parish bells warned residents as searches continued.
Canberra action announced by the Minister for the Interior. A cairn will mark the site of the old Acton House which is to be demolished for a new hospital overlap. Cairn material will come from the house. Senator Collings and others pressed for preservation.
Summary of multiple brief items noting British refugee children arriving in Cape Colony and Kenya, a London cream ban from October, Canadian golf Open entrants, a Dairy Produce Control Committee appointee, a war leadership award the Embry decoration, Hong Kong evacuees reaching Sydney, stock market steadiness and electoral act updates in New York, murder remand in Sydney, NSW stock sales plan, an American ambassador absolved, binder twine price rise, and Canberra Patriotic Funds Board appointments.
The Banking Committee approved increasing the Import and Export Bank capital by 500 million dollars to buy surplus commodities from American countries. It also granted Reconstruction France Corporation an additional loan of 1.0 million dollars for defense purposes.
Two hundred fifty five universal trainees in age groups 20 to 34 inclusive were called up for medical examination and attestation at the Canberra Drill Hall on Friday and Saturday. Ten were exempted and several declared unfit. The men will go into camp near Sydney about the beginning of September and will receive 14 days notice of departure and guidance on personal effects to bring.
A dense listing of daily broadcasts from early morning devotional and news segments to musical concerts, lectures, and variety programs. Entries include Daly, Mumit, Lom cheon Music, News Contingent, School Broadcasts, orchestras, dance and drama features, sports, and international celebrity segments with numerous time points and program titles.
At the Remington saleyards buyers pressed forward 1806 cattle and a large flock of sheep and lambs. Prices rose from the prior week with bullocks ranging £8 to £18 and cows £3 to £9, lambs £17 to £27 per hundredweight, ewes £14 to £22, and general quality described as fair to good.
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