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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 02, 1943
Page
4
A Scone Advocate item reports a farmer received only five pounds three shillings and sixpence for seventeen tons of potatoes destined for Sydney. The crop, shipped January, sat in trucks until March, with deductions for costs leaving a woeful payout and prompting calls for better handling by qualified men to protect growers and the war effort.
The premier annual horse sale at Albury concluded after two days with over 900 head sold. A thoroughbred hack topped at 80 pounds, a brown pony fetched 44 pounds, and many other horses realized well above 30 pounds. The sale featured a surge in light horses as buyers from Victoria, New South Wales, and other Australian regions attended.
New deadlock in Parliament over preference to returned soldiers. Government would accept Senate amendment to cover merchant seamen and civil pilots who served in combat zones, opposed by the House, with Senate rejection likely. Government accepted the Senate change before session end.
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