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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 16, 1943
Page
2
Special tea and sugar rations will be available for bush fire brigades in New South Wales under a Rationing Commission permit. The scheme covers tea and sugar used strictly for firefighting, with potential extra permits if demand rises, as Chief Secretary Baddeley noted. Ambassador Winant is cited on broader reconciliation themes.
London and Sydney based Optometrists and Ophthalmic firm will visit Gloucester Saturday April sixth. They will meet at the Commercial Hotel for inquiries and demonstrations.
A Saturday event at the Gloucester School of Arts featured a lively seta dance organized by volunteers, with speeches praising Mr. Carey's courtesy and service as station master. He and his wife prepare for Coff's Harbour, while soldiers returning from New Guinea receive a welcome home.
Sympathy extended to Mr and Mrs W Allen on the death of Uwir baby dingtler aged seven Werks passing Sunday. Alma Mary Walsh sister of Clem Walsh Gloucester native of Brookfield died last week aged 52. Daughter of Mrs and the late James Walsh life spent caring for parents. Walsh active in church Children of Mary Beaitty matron Bern who recently in hospital at Taree returned home and plans to travel to Sydney and Leura. Wedding at St Johns Church Kinglung Newcastle February 6 Mrs Phyllis Wilbow Gosford and Mr George Sykes attended by Miss Flo Gilligan bridesmaid and Mr George Enaton best man. Sykes longtime Wool Stores Gloucester manager and ALP member overseas wounded at Fobrak.
The Gloucester CWA presents year ending 21st with receipts showing balance from December 1941 of £24 1s 2d and income from subscriptions sales calendars cookery books and donations including Bowling Club Younger Set and Shire Council. Expenditure covers meetings books rent rest rooms cleaning freight and insurance and petty cash with a final credit balance of £423 9s 10d. EDNA M SHELDON Hon Tres.
Gloucester District figures Wes Cornish fondly recalls the late George Westley a cricketer of no mean ability. Westley was a skilled all rounder in Dungog days valued for consistency and teamwork. He recounts Abbott Bignell and others, and notes Westley’s lifelong love of cricket and tales of past matches and players.
The Gloucester Shire Council Works Committees led inspections on January 26 and 29 1943 chaired by Dr G Wilton with Crs Breese and B Laurie. They approved concrete works weather permitting and outlined road repairs, pipe installations and culvert works across Colmne Road Invergaridel Rawdon Vale and Manchester areas with an estimated cost around £60 and several public gate and ramp proposals.
Australian Treasurer Mr Chifley announced new taxes lifting revenue by 40 million. Wages deductions start April based on revised scales. Excess tax will be refunded this year, but no refunds later. Welfare plan costs 30 million yearly, with maternity, funeral, age and invalid pensions, and dependents benefits. Unemployment and sickness schemes hoped within months. War expenditure revised up by 103 million. funding via increased taxation and repatriation costs.
The House of Representatives passed the Militia Bill on Friday without amendment and sent it to the Senate. Major Cameron’s amendment to remove limits on militia service area failed, and Prime Minister Curtin defended the bill’s imposition while rejecting the amendment.
Me SR. Nicholas acting Secretary for allways notes railway livestock losses in New South Wales. He cites 22,000,000 sheep and 700,000 cattle carried yearly, with one cattle in about 80 trucks crippled and two sheep in every five trucks dead or crippled on arrival at the livestock market.
Mr J Barry of Goulburn describes AWC camps from Rockhampton to Charters Towers where cooks earned 140 for Christmas fortnight while lorry drivers got 52. He recalls long hours, dubious food pay, and workers moving between roles, with some men saving large sums. He laments wartime wages as unsustainable.
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