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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 19, 1941
Page
2
Advice on fertilizing vegetables and caring for beans lettuce and cabbage with nitrate solution bone dust and superphosphate. Guidance on watering hoeing earthing and pruning. also notes on sowing dwarf peas before winter and cautions on pod maturity. Mention of country editions with tax postal and public holiday data and the Service Diary popular in 1941.
In 1941 Britain shipped 50 000 diaries to troops from Iceland to the tropics. London moved quickly on 1942 diaries as the new year consignments to Egypt and Iceland rose sharply, with Egypt joining Australia and New Zealand as major buyers.
A Department of Air bulletin compares recruits to the populations of Geelong and multiple cities to show rapid RAAF growth since Australia intensified home defence and began the Empire Air Training Scheme. Total applications exceed 164 700 with 43 000 added since 1939 and 562 recruits last week. The balance of ground staff and air crew selections reflects steady, improving standards and a push to expand the Air Crew Reserve.
Dr H M North argues in Health Week Booklett that mental health must be nourished from infancy alongside physical care, warning that focusing too much on material needs can hinder the organism. He stresses a babe’s potential emotional and cultural traits require proper nourishment from early life to develop fully.
German aircraft wreckage is used to supply aluminium and other parts for British wartime manufacturing. Experts report little genuine Ersatz material, with Germans often over-elaborate and their wireless gear heavier but not more efficient than British sets.
Vivian Ronald Ross of D.V.R Rome trading Bros. operates from their Cobram office street. The brief note places the firm in Cobram with no further details provided.
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