40 Hour Week Proposals For Northern Division Factories
A compulsory Hexham conference adopted proposals to alter the award to a 40 hour week at milk receiving factories in the Northern Division, replacing 44 hours. The plan allows five eight hour days or Monday to Friday seven hours and Saturday four hours, with five eight hour shifts per week and overtime scales for weekend and extra shifts. Butter and bacon factories were not represented and will be consulted before final decisions, with hours to be tested for five eight hour days.
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Hexham
Chemselfen
Newcastle and Northern
Australian Meat Industry Employees’ Union
E. A. Barker
Primary Producers’ Union
L. J. Johnstone
AMLEU
Tourists Residential FORSTER Furnished rooms with full amenities
Forster lodging offers furnished rooms with complete facilities for guests. Self cooking possible any hour, maid for washing up, modern hot water in bathrooms kitchen and laundry. Rain water used on premises. Proprietor card details available. Wm Poppenhagen phone Forster Box 6 Forster.
Campbell celebrates 100th logging sinker at Gloucester works
A Friday celebration honored Mr. A. B. Campbell on delivering the 100th logging sinker from his King Street engineering works Gloucester. Since starting in 1839 and 1940 sales, turnover has grown from £100 to vast stock value, with orders extending to Nowra Dorrigo Grafton Coff's Harbour Lismore Kempsey and into Queensland. The factory also produces trailers dozers and bulldozer attachments, using about £49 of welding rods monthly and five ton steel batches.
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A. B. Campbell
King St
Gloucester
Campbell
Nowra
Dorrigo
Bellingen
Grafton
Coff's Harbour
Lismore
Kempsey
Queensland
Slg
Murwillumbah
P. R. Campbell
Bute
Maitland cattle sales report mix of prices and volumes
Commercial OMEBUSH STOCK SALES Sydney report shows 1485 cattle yarded with mixed quality. bullocks eased, other classes steady. best veal to 6. steers 65, cows 51 per 100 lb. Pitt, Son and Baidgery note 1465 cattle raided with heavyweights steady. prices include Dungog 19 bullocks to 23/18, cows to 14/11, steers to 13/5, bulls to 11/5. Maitland sale reports 700 fat cattle with rising cow values and firmer bullocks. best bullocks to 23/8, cows to 15/9, vealers to 11/5.
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Sydney
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd
Pitt, Son and Baidgery, Ltd
Val- Des
Pisher
Oberon
Maitland
Campbell's Hill
Country transport policy aims for free school conveyance
Mr. Stephens of the Country Party states the Department of Education policy covers 75 percent of conveyance costs for rural school children with tenders for militia-style bus services to be considered. If approved the minister will fund 75 percent, with 25 percent borne by local committees and parents. Country families await transport equality with city students.
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Department of Education
Country Party
8.T. Stephens
Byron
Mr. Stephens
Stephens
Publication Delay Notice for Advocate Weekly
The Advocate announces publication delays due to late receipt of copies. Advertising and contributor submissions arriving after midday on Mondays and Thursdays cannot be published in time for bus and mail service dispatch.
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Advocate
Eine
Organise to destroy the Chifley Government broadcast message
A Brisbane broadcast urged action against the Chifley Socialist Government urging supporters to unite against it. Public rhetoric framed the government as a threat, urging organization to resist before perceived collapse or loss of power. The remarks linked to political strategy and voter mobilization.
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Chifley Socialist
Fadden
Brisbane
Opposition to Nationalisation Sought at PPU Council
At the Dungog PPU Council meeting Mr Ralston urged protest against nationalisation plans. He warned a move toward statism and warned that abolishing private trading banks would harm the landholdings. Mr Fitzgerald and others argued Labour governments confront monopolies but warned this proposal creates a new monopoly and could hurt banks. Mr Berry called socialisation dictatorship and urged action. The council mover sought to have the central executive explore avenues to counter private bank elimination and mobilise union members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P.P.U
Dungog
Ralston
Stanton
Uber
Fitzgerald
Labour
Berry
Armstrong
Billy Saxby Wins Hawkesbury Boxing Lightweight Title
Billy Saxby, a Gloucester native, defeats Fisher last week to claim the Hawkesbury Agricultural College lightweight championship in Richmond. The win marks the hardest fight of his career and continues his celebrated local record. Son of Mr and Mrs Bert Saxby, he entered the college this year after winning a scholarship at Gloucester Central School. All classes of Job Printing done at the Advocate Office.
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Billy Saxby
Hawkesbury Agricultural College
Richmond
Fisher
Billy
Bert Saxby
Gloucester
Gloucester Central School
RSL fights to dispatch food parcels to Britain and land settlement talks
SNAP SHOTS FROM THE RSL discuss food parcel logistics to the British Legion amid postwar strain. Australia eases parcels up to 22 lbs gross by bulk sender and nominated UK agents as the 10,000 pound Food for Britain drive nears its end. The piece also covers land settlement policy, ministerial inspections restrictions, housing progress in New Zealand, and training extensions for war widows and disabled veterans.
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RSL
Bnk
British Legion
British Ministry of Food
Tule
Australia
Britain
State Council
Rs.l
Nelson Lemmon
Commonwealth States Housing Conference
New Zealand
Housing Construction Department
Hutt Valley
Wellington
Religion and nature muse on death and rebirth
The church notes ponder time, decay, and renewal as autumn winds foretell spring. The text speaks of life after death, suggesting a distant Aiden and an Elysium of the soul where mortality resumes immortality.
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Earth
Aiden
D. W. Voorhera
Appetite in Macleay Argus Report Cites Spending
A witness recounts spending about £3 on clothes and drinks in the afternoon and by 6 o clock would have had no more than six shillings. The note mentions Woods Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds.
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Macleay
Argus
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