Live Stock Markets Show Firm Tone at Homebush Salamanca
Commercial from Homebush stock sales in Sydney reports 2644 cattle yarded with market opening firm. Best dealers 58 shillings per 100 lb. steers 46, heifers 44, bullocks 44, cows 41. Prime medium weights common with good quality. similar yarding at Campbell's Hill yesterday with prices firmer. Pigs about 650 penned with baconers scarce. backfatters to 190, heavy baconers to 115/6, light 53/6 to 64/6. J Enright notes over 200 horses at Campbell's Hill, brisk competition, best draught geldings 19/10 to 24, light horses up to 16/10, ponies to 14/10.
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Homebush
Sydney
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd
Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd
Campbell's Hill
J. Enright
Gloucester Cattle Market Buoyant at Homebush Auctions
Buoyant cattle market at Homebush auctions last Thursday with W. P. Reichert of Gloucester buying 10 cows and heifers for £18 total, average £9 5 11, four dealers to £12 12, average £10 9 3 at Winchcombe Carson's sale.
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Homebush
W. P. Reichert
Gloucester
Winchcombe Carson
Dairy Industry Award Question Seeks Hawkesbury Cost Data
In the Legislative Assembly Mr. Fitzgerald pressed for an immediate inquiry into dairy production costs at Hawkesbury Agricultural College arguing for evidence to support farm workers’ cost of production claims. The agriculture minister replied noting the college's instructional purpose, Jersey herd stature, poor pasture, and limited rainfall complicating any cost figures.
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Legislative Assembly
R. L. Fitzgerald
Hawkesbury Agricultural College
Dunn
Hawkesbury College
Fitzgerald
College labour costs and record keeping concerns
The document discusses Hawkesbury College labour costs being about double those of an average dairy farm and notes supervision of student work increases overhead. It argues that costing operations for the stated purpose has not been undertaken and that keeping such records would not serve a practical purpose.
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Hawkesbury College
Middle Class Targeted as Lost Legion by Speaker
Mr. Spender M.H.R. aired a broadcast describing the middle class as the Lost Legion. He defined the group as small business owners, shopkeepers, skilled professionals, fixed income earners, and artisans disadvantaged by heavy wartime taxation and regimentation. He urged policy changes to protect and support this otherwise inarticulate, unorganized segment.
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Spender
M.H.R
Legion of the Lost
Rubber Shortage Threatens Australia’s War Effort
The Agricultural Gazette warns that a rubber shortage endangers Australia’s industrial and commercial activity. Only about 11 percent of 217,000 motor vehicles may be in service next year due to tyre lack, risking vast numbers going off the road by end of 1943. England’s response with iron tyres offers a model. Australia asks what steps are being taken.
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Australia
England
Chinese author Chin Yee on henpecked husbands joke
Chiang Yee, author of The Silent Traveller in London, asserts wives often henpeck husbands and that this trait helps keep the race intact for 5000 years. He shares a light anecdote to illustrate that nature and humour cross cultures.
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Chiang Yee
London
Nine Husbands Run as Wives Raid Meeting Twist
Ten henpecked husbands form a resistance society but at their first gathering the wives intrude. Nine husbands flee in panic leaving one unmoved. The ladies depart with contempt, and the surviving man is chosen president until they discover he died of fright.
Leave for Sick Service Men 1943 1948 malaria hospital ethics
Canberra notes an exchange about extending leave for service men ill with malaria or non malaria sickness. An order dated 12 March 1948 allows extra leave equal to hospital stay or convalescence. Discussion covers hospital placement, climate considerations, and transfer to home states as needed.
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Canberra
Sir Earle
113Th
A.G.H
113Th AG
Queensland
F. M. Forde
Earle Page
G.C
M.G
M.P
Atrocities Reported by Soviet Radio on German Occupation
Moscow radio broadcasts a commission’s findings accusing German forces of massacre and torture in central front regions including Ziazma Gjatsk and Kiev. Victims ranged from women and children to the elderly, with eye burning, limb severing, and forced diggings leading to executions and mass killings.
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Hitler
Germany
Moscow Radio
Hisary
Ziazma
Gjatsk
Kiev
Heinritz
Model
Glask
Smale
Death of 148-Year-Old Man Reported in Cuba
Senor Guadalupe Sierra reputed to be 148 years old has died at Manganillo in Cuba leaving 250 descendants.
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Senor Guadalupe Sierra
Manganillo
Cuba
A Letter to a Boy in the Army
A mother writes to her son abroad about family changes. She notes her uncle’s new job after 44 years, weekly pay of £4 10s, and a home renovation from Anthony Horderns with a new bathroom. The letter humorously describes fixtures, a bath, sink, and foot wash, plus repairs for grandpa's picture and extra paper supplied.
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Anthony Hordern
Taree Netting Centre Reaches 2600 Camouflage Nets
For the three months ended March the workers completed 604 camouflage nets, bringing the total since formation of the centre fifteen months ago to 2600. In recent months workers have averaged 50 nets per week.
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Taree
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Phone &1
Clem Walsh King
K. Irwin Cash & Carry
Tyrell St
Garden of Roses
Peter Moutzouris
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Maitland
Dairy Industry Award
Chapman & Stevens
L. Stevens
Ph.c. Chemists & Druggists
Sid Miller
Gloucester Hotel
Golden Gate Cafe
E. Young
Dando Itene
Tom Hicks
Queen Street
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