Letters from Malaya reveal life with Chinese traders and local customs
Corporal B. D. Gillett writes of Malaya life with Chinese millionaires guiding him to dinner and funerals. He recalls hot cuisine, beer, and tea, and notes multi wife practices among Chinese and Malayans, divorce customs, and village street layouts. He mentions the Army Institute supplying cheap drinks and Craven A cigarettes at 45 cents a tin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. D. Gillett
Mrs. Loewe
Malaya
Ealing
Eary
Army, Navy and Air Force Institute
Australia
Russia Takes Wool from Australia
Russia resumes wool purchases from Australia as the British Government arranges export quantities. Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. note Russia previously bought in secondary markets but is now reentering the direct Australian sales. Wool consumption remains high in the United States and Australia, with foreign supplies likely needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Russia
Messrs. Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd
IL S.A
War Savings Groups in Gloucester district list
War Savings Certificate Groups operate in Gloucester district with 19 groups named. Entries include Group 1 Bank of New South Wales with secretary Weekes and Group 2 Street and Parish Pty Ltd with secretary Horner, among others at various local sites and secretaries. Urgent public appeal requests help for forming and supporting these War Savings Groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester
Bank of New South Wales
BR. Weekes
Messrs. Street and Parish Pty. Ltd
Jin BE. F. Horner
Gloucester District
Rura School
W. McGown
Gloucester Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd
G. K. Mecregor
Grahame's Garage
S. Frost
Pitlochry Push School
B. Hooke
A. R. Paget
Reg. Paget
Group & Gloucester
Les. Stevens
Chapman & Stevens’ Pharmacy
5. McIntosh
Garner's Cash
H. Gray
A. & A. Hazelwood's
Ena Price
Cavanaugh's Pharmacy
Gloucester School of Arts Club
H. Jarrett
Giro
G. Hickman
Countryside Group
H. T. Higgins
Curracabark
Birds Dive Bombed Planes Across Years of Aerial Flight
A survey of birds attacking aircraft or causing accidents across decades. Eagles pecked at planes near the Greek coast and in India, a breeze of incidents from Abyssinia to Australia shows birds sometimes dive on pilots, with some events described as deliberate attacks.
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Kent
East Anglia
C. C. Turner
France
Peewits
Green Plover
Major Turner
Minchin
Imperial Airways
London
Cairo
Greek
Mayer
Bristol Aircraft Company
Air Ministry
Near
Middle East
Prince George Bibesen
Lord Sempill
Alan Cobham
Cobbao
Allahabad
India
Abyssinia
Addis Ababa
Dimboola
Australis
Royal Canadian Air Force
Grey Point
Vancouver
J. Wentworth Day
London stewards condemn arms factories mismanagement
A delegate at a London meeting of shop stewards on August 23 condemned the criminal lack of organisation in arms factories. The gathering, representing 195 factories with 174000 workers, carried a resolution urging doubling war production. Present production was called a scandal.
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London
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Land OF
W. Tout
Barham Bowman
Barrington
L. E. Monro
Market Street
W. T. Howard
Phowes
Taree
Eagle
Gloucester Electric Supply Co. Pty. Ltd
Gibb and Beeman Pty. Ltd
Gibb & Beeman
Sydney
Newcastle
Goulburn
Tamworth
Lismore
Orange
Wagga
Maitland
K. Irwin Cash & Carry
Tyrell St
Golden Gate Cafe
E. Young
Sunshine Cafe
Tom Hicks
Queen Street
E. Patmore
Thomas Cowan & CO
Tudor ST
O'Connell ST
J. Bowen
BOX
Street & Parish, Pty., Ltd
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