Public Notices from Canberra and Surrounds
Notices announce salvage collection to commence February 5 at listed residences and estates with scouts handling pickup. Residents to place salvage at hedge lines, blades wrapped, batteries drained. Molonglo and Oaks Estate residents on garbage days. Also tender calls from the Department of the Interior for timber removal and pine logs with details to contact the Surveyor-General Canberra.
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Dales
Sreddon
Forrest
Red Hill
Cuay
Deakin
Barton
Turner
Actos
Sun- Wield
Westridge
Oifith
King- Boars
Molongio
Oaks Estate
T. H. Garrett
A.g
Timber sale notice at Yarraluma woods station
Sealed offers close at 2 p m Tuesday February 4 1941 for approximately 25 cords of Pinus radiata logs not exceeding 5 inches diameter from Weat bourne Woods station at Yarraluma AGT Full details from the Surveyor General and Chief Property Officer Department of the Interior.
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Department Et Thé ‘Interior
Canberra
West
Faraiemla
Act
Poimta
Kingston
A.C.T
Rowen Reserve
Department of the Interior
HL Garrett
Weatbourne Woods
Yarraluma Agt
Department of the In
Housing must not be neglected during wartime in Australia
A government spokesman denounces Minister Anthony for neglecting housing to fund war. The speaker argues social needs, including homes for Australians, must be funded despite wartime. They cite Roosevelt on defense spending and oppose policies that delay housing or favor internees over Australian families.
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Anthony
Sydney
Australia
Roosevelt
United States
Commonwealth
Waste Salvage Drive Faces Strong Opposition in Delhi Selection
Canberra reports 24 tons collected in waste salvage amid a national drive. Scouts distribute leaflets as razor blades stray among debris. batteries and acid pose danger. cardboard shortages prompt import talk. Sydney residents urged to place salvage with weekly garbage and use hedgerows for loading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of the Interior
Sydney
New Zealand
Stole Receipts From Ministry of Munitions Case
Colin Edward Coombes, 19, convicted at Central Polt Court on one charge of stealing receipts from the Ministry of Munitions. He received three months imprisonment after evidence showed 36 receipts found at his home. He claimed he kept them to sort but did not have time to use them and burned them. Police did not charge him further for alleged false representations to the ministry secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Central Polt Court
Dsy
Ministry of Munitions
Colin Edward Coombes
Coombes
Polce
Upem
Federal cabinet grants newsprint licence to Truth and Sportaman Ltd
The Federal Cabinet approved a newsprint licence for Truth and Sportaman Ltd to publish a daily afternoon newspaper in Sydney subject to conditions. Minister for Customs Har Woon announced the decision, noting the managing director Ezra Norton would consider the terms. Norton did not comment beyond saying it was a matter for the company director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Truth and Sportaman Ltd
Customs
Har- Woon
T Hat Company
Ezra Norton
Lcence
Harrizon
Norton
Educate Men to Counteract Union Agitators
Mr. Mc Call stated that workers must be educated to support the Australian war effort. He called for a directed program led by a person of prestige and qualifications to win backing from employers and unions, criticizing the government for failing to make workers understand Australia was at war. The remark notes exploitation of the war effort by some employers and employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bydney
McCall
M.hsr
Australia
Uniform tax collection discussed with state leaders
The Acts Prime Minister Mr Fedden said he would discuss with the State Premiers and Treasurers in Canberra next week how uniformity in collecting Commonwealth and State taxation from wage earners could be achieved. He noted the talk would be preliminary and requires full government consideration. Officials are surveying incidence and grade of state taxes and preparing an analysis to present at the conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Acts
Fedden
Canberra
Fadden
Governors Attend Melbourne Salute and Albury Travel
His Excellency the Governor-General Lord Gowrie and His Excellency the Governor of Victoria Sir Winston Dugan, with Brigadier General A T Anderson, reviewed a march at Melbourne Town Hall. They were hosted by the Lord Mayor Walter Masey Greene. Lord Gowrie later visited Government House Melbourne. The Governor-General and Lady Gowrie departed Melbourne for Albury in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Gowrie
Victoria
Winston Dugan
A.T. Anderson
Malbourne
ALF
Melbourne
Mayora Roows
Walter Masey Greene
Government House
A. T. Anderson
Albury
Gowrie
Canberra
Australia Day commemorative ceremony at Botanic Gardens
The Australian Natives Association chief president Mr J Weatheraton presides at Captain Philip's statue Sydney Botanic Gardens tomorrow afternoon. Prime Minister Mr Menzies will deliver an address on national significance. Twenty one broadcast addresses follow nationwide. Director W G Bird will speak from Canberra at 4 p.m.
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W. G. Bird
Canberra
Imtation 9Ca
Unions March Holiday Carnival Through Canberra June Day
Eight hundred unions join the ACT Trade and Labour Council parade from Canberra railway station to Manuka Oval. A morning 10 40 start features races for women and children with a 100 yards Open Championship likely won by Day Miles or Mayo. Evening events include a dance at Albert Hall and a car cavalcade around Manuka Oval.
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Manuke Oval
Tradea and Labour Council
Canjeaira
Big Gun
Kingston
Wentworth Avenue
Giles Street
Manuka
Manuka Oval
Canberra
George Day
C. Miles
Tilley
RAAF
C. Mayo
Day
Miles
Queanbeyan
Day Ia
New South Wales
Stawell Gift
Grant
Geelong
Arm
Navy
Air Force
Fant- Ming
Hiaris Fuirn
Anberrea
Patriotic Carnival planned at Acton Racecourses
Gov Gen and Lady Gowrie expected at the A C T Patriotic Carnival at Acton Racecourses on Saturday February 22. Committees report many activities added to entertainment with posters and all day programme distributed from Goulburn to Cooma. Donations to the carnival fund total 125 pounds 17 shillings 8 pence with 50 pounds from H E Curran who helped start the carnival.
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Gowre
Acton
Stalla
Goulburn
Cooma
K. Anderson
Carnival Fund
H. E. Curran
Times
Strike at Clyde Engineering Grinds 200 Workers
About 200 workers at Clyde Engineering Company Granville begin a strike over Christmas holiday pay. If unresolved, 400 more may join. Strikers meet Tuesday to decide next steps.
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Rydney
Clyde Engineering Company
Granville
Whch
GUNS BEFORE HOMES CONCENTRATES ON WAR EFFORT
Australia prioritizes war production over housing as Assistant Minister Anthony explains that diverting skilled workers to nonmunitions would hinder the war effort. Building societies urged more housing funds but tax measures are being used to raise £170 million for current needs. The deputation’s demand will be reviewed by a Cabinet committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Australia
Anthony
National fodder conservation plan announced by Cabinet
The Federal Cabinet approved a national fodder conservation plan to be discussed by Sir Earle Page at the Agricultural Council in Canberra next week. It aims to help individual farmers conserve fodder, create a National Fodder Conservation Board to manage excess production, and support primary producers in financing fodder purchases through allied organisations. The move follows two months of review and Australia's drought experience highlighted the need for a timely scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Rle Page
Canberra
National
Avatrala
Australian Cruise Ship Scene Sparks Wharf Protest
On a Sydney wharf, Australians were kept ashore while an Allied liner admitted a Japanese passenger with a national security pass. Protests to military and police yielded no action as the vessel berthed amid tense security and enforcement discrepancies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Gleamship Company
Uner
Moilitary Guard
Ener
Australian ship work ban tightens under security regs
The government gazetted new National Security Regulations prohibiting aliens and naturalized British seamen from navigating or working on ships registered in Australia or operating in Australian waters without a license. The move aims to curb leakage of shipping information to the enemy as part of a broader security campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Australian
War Day by Day Pressure in East Africa
British patrols in Italian East Africa shift to raids as native resistance grows, threatening Italian forces under Graziani. The campaign aims to cut Eritrea, squeeze Abyssinian positions, and force a collapse of Italian rule with reinforcements unlikely and supplies running short.
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Italian East Africa
Mediterranean
Africa
Taly
Kassula
Marshall Graziani
Libya
Wavell
Sudan
Mussolini
Addis Ababa
Graziani
East Africa
Tima
Bardia Tactics Echoed in Tobruk Assaults by British Forces
Reported British operations at Tobruk reuse Bardia tactics with air, land and sea attacks aimed at breaking the front and penetrating to hit Italian rear areas. Claims suggest Italian coastal defenses at Tobruk harbour were damaged and naval bombardment caused little harm to British forces.
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Tobruk
Bardia
San Giorgio
Fotilla
Ome
Floud
Wavell
G.H.Q
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