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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 02, 1940
Page
3
The Canberra Eisteddfod Society announces its third musical and elocutionary competitions for juveniles from under 8 to under 18, with new sections and events. Entries close Friday July 12, with forms available from music teachers, newsagents, and the secretary, Box 18 G.P.O. Canberra.
A Queanbeyan Women’s Voluntary Service carnival on Saturday boosted war funds with stalls selling tickets chocolates wheels and house-to-house sales. The event drew raffles and prize draws with winners named and total takings listed for each stall.
Melbourne reports the death of Rev. P J Murdoch at age 90. A longtime Camberwell minister for 41 years he led Presbyterians and served as Moderator of the General Assembly of Australia. He retired 11 years ago and is survived by a widow three sons including Sir Keith Murdoch and a daughter.
Sir Percy Lorraine and Sir Noel Charles led nearly 300 British officials and journalists as they arrived in Glasgow aboard the Monarch of Bermuda. The return journey from Italy was described as a tour de luxe with generous Italian hospitality.
Dr H F E Downes explained amendments tightening drug and food presence as evidence of sale. The council discussed notifying The Canberra Times of meeting dates, gazettal of ordinances, transport for outlying school children, forestry school nominations, water charges, parking, meat prices, and hospital board elections. Debates covered overcoats for firemen, rent adjustments, street signs, and potential repurposing of Braddon drill hall for Army use.
At a council meeting Mr Gardiner attacked delays in appointing apprentices for Canberra Parks and Gardens. He accused lack of facilities and organisation, argued training should yield more than ganger roles, and pointed to two gangers on opposite riverbanks as examples of mismanagement.
Government plans tighter petrol controls in Wellington, with monthly limits for cars by engine size, two wheelers allowed two gallons, and public transport to operate on fixed routes. Food delivery and commercial travel face stricter schedules. farmers urged to boost production while cutting waste.
The report shows loans amounting to £4,087,000 and gifts totaling £306,000. During the weekend, contributions reached £77,000.
Mr. Daley said no information on internment or parole figures. The matter was referred to the Department of the Eye and no reply. Gardiner criticized recruiting delays and noted eight to ten enemy subjects allowed to work near Canberra's water supply, arguing Australians should fill the jobs.
Harold Nicholson argues Britain must resist Nazi invasion as a global defensive line. He warns against defeat and promotes victory and a new world with unity and security. He cites German propaganda, the British Navy, and 20 000 pilots yearly as keys to eventual air supremacy.
Today manufacturers of superpates receive approval from the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner Professor Copland to raise prices effective immediately. The increases are 18s a ton in New South Wales Victoria and South Australia 13s in Tasmania and £1 in Western Australia and Eyre Peninsula. The commissioner cited higher freights on phosphate rock from Nauru and Ocean Island as the principal reason adding 14s a ton to production costs alongside changes in the price of other ingredients and bags.
Daily irregularity, or constipation, dulls the mind and body and causes headaches and bad mouth taste. Avoid drastic purgatives. choose Dr. Morse's Indian Root, a purely vegetable remedy that promotes daily regularity and supports liver and kidney function.
Printed and published by Christopher the Offices of the Company Mort Btreer Braddon Canberra. A brief line records the publishing location and responsible party for the issue.
The Leader of the Australian Labour Party accuses the government of insincerity over ship building. He cites idle slipways, Walsh Island, and delays in the Townsend report on merchant vessel construction. The navy plans focus on Australian designed sloops and mosquito boats using local materials to keep yards active.
An emergency meeting of the Congress Working Committee was summoned after a phone conversation between Congress President and Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi, who was to attend the Wardha meeting on Wednesday, remained in New Delhi.
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