Scully explores postwar guaranteed prices for rural producers
The Commonwealth Minister for Commerce and Agriculture Mr Scully outlines plans to stabilise rural industry after the war. He will seek State Ministers of Agriculture views at the Australian Agricultural Council to ensure prices for wheat wool potatoes milk meat and other products are protected from market fluctuations. Such measures would reward wartime effort by Australia's rural communities and safeguard returns as the war ends.
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Commonwealth
Commerce and Agriculture
Scully
Australian Agricultural Council
Australia
South-West Pacific
Britain
Mr D J Matthews appointed to Cobram State Savings Bank
Mr D J Matthews of Quyen is appointed to manage the Cobram branch of the State Savings Bank of Victoria and is expected to assume duties early in October. The article notes his prior experience and anticipated responsibilities at the Cobram branch.
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D. J. Matthews
Quyen
Cobram
State Savings Bank of Victoria
Wedding Bells Sound in Cobram and Albury Returns
Wedding notice for W. P. Naughton AM of Mr. and Mrs. W. Naughton Cobram details the single attendant in three ink shades, bouquet of mixed flowers, Melbourne to Albury home future. In memoriam notices honor deceased sons and loved ones with dates and family salutes from Australia cities.
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W. P. Naughton
W. Naughton
High Street
Cobram
Melbourne
Albury
Community notes reflect wartime urgency and local decisions
Local and general items describe church talks in Cobram, fundraising social events, shire council moves on barbering in Tocumwal, and Christmas mail guidance from the Deputy Director of Posts. It also covers irrigation water rights discussions, immunisation plans, and council representation while noting Lae’s wartime transition to a model garrison town and a drought-driven Berrigan Show cancellation.
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Lae
New Guinea
Etn
Tropics
Berrigan
Portrait of Churchill by James Lansdale Hodson in Rome
The novelist Hodson describes Winston Churchill in Rome on August 23 as a distinguished man with an appealing personality. He notes Churchill’s tears in moments of emotion, humorous shafts, brave conduct, good sense, and occasional irascibility, portraying him as embodying quintessential English virtues.
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James Lansdale Hodson
Churchill
Rome
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