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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 20, 1942
Page
3
Dr Grace Cuthbert Actor advocates comprehensive health supervision from pre birth to school entry. Emphasizes prenatal mothercraft and childcraft to reduce infant mortality and maternal deaths, warning against guesswork in maternal and child care. Regular prenatal care is urged as essential public health measure.
A wartime appeal stresses total war in democracies, highlighting blackout drills, air raid shelters, and national sacrifice. It argues Axis powers exploit freedoms, urging Australians to fund planes, ships, guns, and bombs through Liberty Loans. The message frames the loan as a barometer of strength to repel the invader.
Private Cran writes from a ship near Malaya to his mother Mrs. Wilks. He details stormy seas, cramped bunks, and rations of three dog biscuits with jam. Troops trade keepsakes for clothes and note the playful but puzzled native crews.
Driver Andy Curran writes from the Middle East to Mrs C Kennedy in Gloucester. He thanks Gloucester folk for their warmth and recounts life in Greece Beirut and Palestine. He notes a lost watch a Beirut race course and hopes to return to Australia. News briefs cover Java Burma Russian campaigns and war production policy.
The New South Wales Department of Agriculture ships 25 young heifers and bulls from Wollongbar Experiment Farm to Trangie Experimental Farm 50 miles west of Dubbo as the lead in a stock evacuation scheme. More than 100 of the Wollongbar Guernseys remain.
An increasing number of soldiers wear a narrow red ribbon on shoulder straps to show they are war casualties who can walk and are not in hospital. A blue ribbon denotes a casualty who is on leave but still in hospital for treatment.
Government officials and primary producers in New South Wales and Queensland met in Sydney to consider evacuation of cattle from coastal areas in invasion scenarios. The minister and premier outlined safeguards and a potential search earth policy to keep stock from enemy hands, but no final decision was announced as the conference adjourned.
District cattle sold Monday in Maitland by B W Sparke Pty Ltd featured K M Cameron with 23 head at £16 11s average £10 16s Fis her Bros 23 head at £15 19s average £15 0s 9d Titcume Pastoral Stroud Road 21 head at £18 average £14 18s 9d R A Abbott 6 steers average £10 18s 8d and cows £8 12s T H A Abbott Gloucester 23 bullocks at £15 19s average £14 14s 6d.
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