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Newspaper
Carcoar Chronicle
Location
Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 11, 1942
Page
4
Mr K G Cain, Superintendent of Rural Section, National Services, argued that while workers help during holidays has value, many are unfit for the arduous land army tasks. He suggested cooperative farming as a solution, noting possible methods to reduce handicaps and improve harvest efficiency amid wartime manpower strains.
At the annual meeting Mr. Smith outlined experiments with Australian produced 95 cc alcohol mixed with petrol to speed distillation and boost power for transport. He said wartime super-gas units could be reused, but large scale production would meet liquid fuel needs.
Mail delivery between Woodstock and Canowindra has been reorganized with a new timetable. The changes affect the war mail schedule and improve routing between the two towns.
The Woodstock Hospital Auxiliary met on 5 September with fair attendance. They discussed purchasing a food conveyor for £150 and voted to add £17 donated for furnishing a military ward to funds for the conveyor. The next meeting is set for 3 October.
Rabbit skins at Wednesdays Sydney sales totaled 23 tons with little quotable change in values. Winters ranged 84d to 87d per lb with various incoming lots and pelts showing modest shifts. Fox skins also largely unchanged with best to 17s 10d each and a range down to 2d in older lots.
Official notice warns no exemptions will be granted this year for dog registration. Prosecutions will proceed against persons neglecting to register by month end.
A country visitor returning from Sydney described Sydney as a City of Racketeers with rampant black markets, noting scarce goods and lax government. He compared it unfavorably with country life and said authorities did little to clamp down.
A letter from A E Sunter Clarke to Mr Breen requests a clear yes or no on whether he will oppose using farmers excess wheat proceeds to meet the 140 million bushel guarantee and if he would back a 10 percent rise in the 3/10 fob guarantee if the government rejects a proposal. The writer cites the 1939 and 1940 wheat acts and asks for a definite statement to protect farmers. A copy will be published in the district press.
In Bourke during a rationing period a man placed a note on a loaded wool truck about a tin of tobacco at the bottom. The tin was later found and returned to the owner by a finder from King Harbor last weekend.
A local businessman favors a motto about enduring nerve frays. The saying praises a man who stays smiling and composed when life turns bleak, arguing that resilience defines Worth.
Reports from Bathurst district indicate a good trout fishing season with streams running well and fish rising. CentraI Acclimatisation Society released 75,000 brown trout three years ago into Duckmald, Fish Rivers and Fish River Creek and 45,000 rainbow into Little River. fish should reach 12 inches. However anglers must walk to waters due to lack of petrel.
A mother and relatives confronted a man Tobono over a daughter running away with Tobono. Tobono pulled off the old lady’s dress and pushed her unclothed into the river. He was found guilty of an incident and ordered imprisoned in Samaral gaol.
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