Value of Sleep and Rest in Childhood Welfare Guide
This article from Maternal and Child Welfare outlines the importance of sleep for proper growth, detailing recommended sleep schedules for infants and toddlers, bed arrangements, mattress and shakedown filling with baked chaff, safe pillow use, mosquito nets, and cautious positioning. It urges mothers to ensure comfort and proper environment, plus contact details for the Maternal and Child Welfare Centre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Health and Home Affairs, Maternal and Child Welfare Service
Lfe
Jess
Maternel and Child Welfare Centre
Baby Clinic
Alfred Street
Fortitude Valley
N. 1
Brisbane
Hitler Confession Print Reprinted in Natal Mercury
A spoof confession purporting to be Adolf Hitler’s deathbed remarks is cited in the Natal Mercury dated November 1. The text claims Hitler denounces Poles, praises German soldiers, insults Allies, and signs Auf Wiedersehen, ending with a note that the real confession is in a patterned sequence.
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Britain
Hitler
Natal
Adolf Hitler
Herod
Josef Stalin
Wireless trainees to train at Melbourne college next Monday
Part of Australia’s Empire Air Scheme, a wireless training school will open at Melbourne Technical College next Monday. Trainees in batches of 50 will spend five months there, then proceed to Point Cook for flying training. The Minister for Air welcomed the call for experienced civil radio and telegraphy instructors while noting the need for trainees from RAAF recruiting centers.
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Australia
Melbourne Technical College
Point Cook
Air
Fairburn
Air Force
RAAF
Bomber for fighting and production in Australia
The British authorities declare the Bristol Blenheim is now useful for bombing as well as fighting. Improvements proceed with each batch and the Beaufort development follows the Blenheim. Australia to build planes with 20,000 air frame parts and 40,000 special tools, with many parts produced in railway workshop annexes.
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Australheim
Australia
500 MLP H Aircraft Speed Breaks Sound Barrier
The text notes fighter aircraft speeds nearing the speed of sound. NACA in Washington explores machines capable of 500 miles per hour, over 700 feet per second. It cites 25 years of aero speed progress with figures showing average speeds around 1014 70-80 mph and 1018 140-155 mph, plus world records of 1991 340 mph and 1989 440 mph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Advisory Committee On Aeronautics
Washington
Britain Buys Wheat From Australian Pool Sale
The Australian Wheat Board announced the sale of 63 million bushels of wheat and flour to Britain with terms completed January 1 and subject to confirmation by the British Ministry. Prices declined overseas and Britain asked that price not be disclosed. The Board plans to fix half the 1,000,000 tons later in the year as it had previously sold 98,000,000 bushels from pools.
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Australian Wheat Board
C. McPherson
McPherson
Britain
Wheat Board
Women May Help RAAF in Empire Air Scheme
Discussion notes a proposal to form an Australian Women's Auxiliary Air Force to support the Royal Australian Air Force. It argues such a force would free skilled pilots and technicians for frontline work, mirroring Britain's Auxiliary services with tens of thousands of women serving in clerical and essential roles across services.
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Britain
Royal Air Force
Air Force
Australia
Ailitary Air Force
Navy
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Army
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New Air Chief and Lower Ranks in Australia
Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett will arrive as Chief of Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force and holds the equivalent rank of admiral and general. Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin heads the naval board with a broad gold band and three narrow cuffs, plus crown and cross-sword finale on full dress. Australia lacks a current army general and the top rank is held by General Sir Harry Chauvel, now retired.
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Charles Burnett
Australia
Royal Australian Air Force
Royal Australian Naval Board
Ragnar Colvin
Harry Chauvel
John Monash
E. Ker Squires
Royal Air Force
Pilots Need Ground Staff for Empire Air Scheme
The Royal Australian Air Force seeks partly trained technicians and apprentice fitters to support the Empire Air Scheme. At least ten ground personnel per airman are required, with many skilled mechanics among them. Training, wages, ration allowances, and uniforms are provided, and after training, personnel will join various service units of the Air Force. Applications go to the Air Force recruiting depot in each capital city.
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Royal Australian Air Force
Air Force
Perce
War ruins Hamburg ports in British blockade era
War ruins Hamburg as German harbors lie abandoned and ships idle under a British blockade. While British naval protection keeps Empire trade free, about 6,000 vessels have taken part in convoys, though only twelve remain unblocked and active.
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Germany
Europe
Hamburg
Australian equipment for Royal Navy
Australia has cause to be proud of its war effort with mechanical depth charge throwers made locally for the British Navy. They were aboard British destroyers in the North Sea shortly after the war began and have been used in many attacks on U boats.
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Australia
North Sea
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Maternal and Child Welfare
Admiralty
Army Canteen Service
Imming
Wrigley's
Surgica
Wyallo
Westelox
Queensland Pastoral Supplies Pty Ltd
Royal Navy
Groceriers and
Pr Duce
Cloncurry
Leichhardt Stores
General Grocers
Cloncurey
Liz
New Bakery
Aridas
Ramsay Street
M. Holden
P. D. Box
Aurey
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