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Newspaper
Charleville Times
Location
Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 14, 1941
Page
8
The piece describes Greek women evacuating towns and taking control of civilian services as invaders advance. Women bear ammunition, provide supplies, and man post offices and telephones while rallying with soldiers. It notes past female combat roots and hints at continued readiness if men retreat.
Government experimental stations in the Bureau of Plant Industry are growing crops with nutrient solutions and porous media. Professor F. W. Gericke of the University of California demonstrates a water culture system using heating cables to dissolve chemicals, enabling accelered growth and earlier harvests for vegetables like tomatoes. Commercial installations in California and interest from Eastern capital signal a shift toward soilless agriculture, though grain crops and traditional orchards face limits against chemical methods.
An elderly drover, about 73, entertains fellow drovers with rugged yarns from eleven days on the road and a famed sheep dog. He recalls a Bathurst to Hobart trek with 19,000 ewes and a legendary dog that once earned him £1000, plus a Tasmanian potato blight tale where the dog helped avert crop loss.
A historical report notes dwindling whale stocks as hunting pressures rise. It cites past catches around two per year and warns at least tens of thousands used in soaps margarine and explosives with increasing demand. Experts fear whaling may end as profits shrink.
De Clunies-Ross urged guarded handling of wool price fixing amid low substitute costs at Armidale. Dr. Chui Rose outlined wool cost reduction aims: disease removal, mortality reduction, pasture management, rotational grazing, improved breeding and husbandry, and closer fertility study. Proposals discuss sample quality terms like denalty and nandice, variations across climates, and a 12 month even-glot trial to compare fleece weights and quality.
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