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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 27, 1946
Page
2
Hundreds of grocers have received notices from the Prices Commissioner ordering statements of their business transactions over recent years. National Security Regulations Section 1A empower compulsion to produce documents for examination.
William Bell an 82 year old accountant was sentenced by Judge Markell in the Quarter Sessions to three years imprisonment after being found guilty of fraud. He obtained 242 pounds from seven men by pretence claiming they could secure his Bondi flat. Bell has a history of fraud convictions and was declared a habitual criminal.
Britain’s Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson urges authorities to recruit more men as teachers to raise the male share in national schools. She cites 2 men per 100 teachers and 71 women, urging flexible policies, transfers, and early action to implement the 1944 Education Act and ease infant to junior shifts.
V C winner Leslie T. Starcevich of Vienna Australia joined the Seamen's Union awaiting first job as trimmer on Iver. He left the army three months ago and hopes to find work, though he is not yet recognized by suitors.
Jeannie O Toole, a 20 month old girl in Broken Hill, choked on a crust lodged in her throat. Medical staff attended, and the incident was treated as a choking emergency with no lasting injuries reported.
Report by Pryor, former Canberra parks chief, after 11 weeks in Honshu studying horticulture. He toured Hiroshima, noted regrowth of vegetation, rebuilding with soft woods, erosion and landslide challenges, and farmers adapting gardens to terraced rock walls. He contrasts Japanese and Australian garden culture and cites women gaining political influence after voting rights.
Rome reports that Prime Minister Gaspért Badi of the Christian Democrats has exited the government ranks, signaling a leadership shift within Italy's ruling party and triggering renewed debate over coalition stability and policy direction.
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