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Newspaper
Cloncurry Advocate
Location
Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 08, 1943
Page
1
Nationwide effort mobilizes services chambers churches unions theatres mayors and councils to recruit 790000 subscribers and raise 125000000. War service personnel promote early canvassing while factories adopt internal loan committees and salary deductions. Four payment options to purchase loans outlined with deadlines through 1944.
A collection of colonial anecdotes recounts Pompey Davis at a tavern loa n dispute and a humorous Oxford eight reminiscence. It moves to river scenes with timber crews at Brunswick and a tale of Percy Plantaganet and Mat Hogan. The piece closes noting Essington Lewis receives honorary Companion status for defence industry service.
A Melbourne factory worker offered a hundred pounds and returned with a treacle tin as his own bank to invest in the Fourth Liberty Loan. He later deposited £150 in the fund after lunch, demonstrating thrift in a bold, practical way.
Ned Kelly pioneered body armour and Australian tests at Randwick Rifle Range show light steel plate armour withstood hits from a Thompson 45 and an Owen submachine gun at 35 yards. Bullets mostly flattened or broke, armour plating produced at Newcastle steelworks at one sixth overseas price, and used in tanks and naval craft before lighter body armour for soldiers.
In the Cloncurry district vacancies appear for a laundress scene post. Rewards and wages are noted, with attention to steady work opportunities and local employment needs.
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