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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Oct 06, 1939
Page
5
Fragmented OCR reads claim that Pederson and Beith discuss loans and credit in trade associations. The note mentions uncertainty and a statement about government/credit conditions, with unclear names and context.
The Commonwealth Prices Commission introduces an averaging principle for price fixing. Prices are now calculated by combining old and new stock costs divided by total quantity, allowing gradual cost increases without disrupting business. The scheme covers imported goods, goods manufactured in Australia for sale, and partially manufactured items. A periodical adjustment permits traders to average prices when purchasing overseas goods, with provisions for retail profit and special basis prices. The Commissioner will soon announce declared goods eligible for immediate averaging, focusing on imported materials and domestically produced items.
Migration offers to the Survey General and Chief Property Officer in the Department of the Interior Canberra will be received until 2 pm Tuesday 17th April. The notice references crossing and extraction tasks with pine timber quantities and locations including Mt Stromio.
The interim figures show 20,148 arrivals and 12,808 departures in the year, with 11,090 British arrivals among diverse nationalities including Germans Austrians Greeks and Americans. A wartime migration note details transport costs and shipping logs tied to a Kingston pine log trade and government applications.
Territory residents see variation in the award published in Gazette No. 47 dated 3rd August 1084 for printers painters plasterers barge builders carpenters bricklayers labourers and liquor trade staff in the Territory. A copy of the variation can be inspected at the Secretary Industrial Board office. Formally submitted by Union on behalf of the applicant. Also public notices include job ads for pantry hands cooks and gentleman boarders in Manuka district with place advertisements at Murrey Crescent and Burns Street.
Amid wartime strains in 1941 the Australian census may be postponed. Officials fear the war will extend the interval before data collection resumes, delaying statistical records of progress and development. Government supporters argue deferral could reduce confusion in a time of national crisis.
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