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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 23, 1945
Page
1
The Cobram Courier reports a echoed motto "Where there is no vision, the people perish" reiterating a vision statement. Dated Friday February 23 1945 the fragment reflects wartime morale and local editorial tone.
Australia rapidly built an optical munitions industry after 1940 ten years of work in twelve months. Five plants produce over a dozen lens types with a value above £300000 annually. Exports go to the United States and South Africa as scientists push peacetime benefits.
Local report covers failed Cobram central classes for 6th and 7th grades due to teacher shortages. It notes proposed Murray Valley mail service discussions, Barooga Station health issues, Biennial Welcome Committee meeting, and shifts in local business ownership. Council updates include electric pump repairs and water charge setting.
A World War II era column debates the Crimea or Yalta conference label, Polish concerns, labor and state issues, and the looming Requisitioned Land and War Works Bill. It laments bureaucratic pretensions, praises Allied victory, and foresees resistance in Parliament while urging national resolve.
Rest Room committee met last Thursday evening and decided to provide beds for servicemen on leave. An appeal to the public will seek funds for blankets, with £1 1s pledged anonymously. Mrs. L Edwards offered a mattress, folding stretchers may be loaned, donations to Mr. E A Cole will be acknowledged in the Courier.
His Lordship the Bishop of Wangaratta assisted by Revs Woodyer and Moyle inducted the Rev Leslie George Bootle Rose into the Numurkah Cobram Church of England parish on Tuesday night, with a large congregation. Mrs Gilmour is holidaying at St Kilda. Mr Crozier returned after Melbourne visit as a reflective note on warfare and duty.
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