03 Dec 1943
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 03, 1943
Page
1
Garner's Cash Store offers boys suits in plain knee style sizes 6 to 12 with strong lining, plain college grey sergerettes, and coupons. Mens shorts in khaki drill, muscular heavy-weight trousers, denim trousers, and sports coats in grey and fawn checks, all with multiple coupons. Also promoting crockery glassware furniture and hardware and soldier's boxes for Christmas parcels.
Reuter reports Churchill Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-shek, after Cairo talks, headed for Persia to meet Stalin. Cairo isolated from outside contacts during the meetings. A joint communique expected this week. Russian front reports gains near Smolensk and advances west of the Dnieper while German counterattacks inflict heavy losses. British Eighth Army pushes north of the Sangro and captures Lanciano. Nazi structure seen as cracking, and Australians advance in New Guinea at Bonga from Finschhafen.
The Commonwealth Prices Commissioner Professor Copland announced a prices order to take effect Monday December 4 covering live birds dressed poultry and cooked poultry. It fixes maximum wholesale prices per pound with different rates for hens cockerels and other classes and excludes stud birds laying hens or chicks under four pounds from the order.
Prices set for dressed poultry cap wholesale and retail. A 4lb dressed cockerel tops at 10/- wholesale or 12/- retail while a 21lb dressed chicken would max at 6/- wholesale and 10/- retail. Medium duck limit is 15/- and turkey goblet 30/-. Sellers must publicly display maximum price per pound for all poultry and attach tickets showing sale price per pound or per bird.
A fragment notes papal gifts and stamps tied to a savings bank, suggesting purchases as presents for Christmas. The exact details are unclear but indicate a financial institution promoting stamp acquisitions as holiday gifts.
Edge to edge coats available with three coupons. Rayon hosiery offered from 2/11 with two coupons. Good selection of ladies and children's handbags featured in the sale.
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