05 Jun 1942
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 05, 1942
Page
1
The government clamps 75 percent of 1941 weekly average on clothing sales covering men’s and women’s wear. Grocery hardware and furniture departments largely unaffected. Customers are assured prompt attention to all orders.
Job printing in Gloucester offers a first class plant for all classes of work. The Advo cate office claims big savings versus Sydney and notes profits stay in Gloucester to build local industry. Includes prize schedules, letterheads, posters, race books, menus, ball programmes, time sheets, and envelopes.
Russia presents wartime advances from 1935 to 1941, highlighting paratroopers, air transport, and Stormovik dive bombers. It notes inventive Soviet troops, armored sledges, winter operations north of Leningrad, and unfreezing fuel using cold-weather research. The piece also mentions German fears of new Russian weapons and signals ongoing Soviet strategic surprises.
The Office of Facts and Figures reported that Japanese Minister of Justice Mr Iwamura admitted in a broadcast that the April 18 American air raid terrorised the population and threatened public morale.
Mr J M Pitt reports till end May contracts let to farmers for defence needs totalled about 1900 tons valued around £18900 across Port Macquarie Hastings Comboyne Kendal Moorland Coralville Manning Upper Lower Macleay Wallamba Gloucester and related districts Seed shortages limit gains though some districts with rich alluvial land and irrigation promise better returns Vine crops dominate contracts while potatoes and other root crops face seed and bag shortages. 30 000 bags needed to forward practice and Commonwealth will return them.
An Irish bidder wins a talking parrot at auction for £15 and quips about paying a high price. The auctioneer reveals he had been bidding against him for the last few pounds, prompting a humorous exchange.
Executive of the Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund asks the Prime Minister to compel remittance to the main fund. C Docker says £150,000 is frozen for postwar bursaries for soldiers sons, welcome home events, and chairs for disabled men. He cites £20,000 idle in an NSW town and only £165,849 remitted from £905,398 collected since the war began.
The Rationing Commission allows one member to collect ration books for the whole family on issuing days June 13 and 14. The collector must present identity cards for all members over 16, a parent signed declaration for children under 16, and an agency form authorising collection for others over 16. Traders may accumulate coupons after rationing begins June 15. Clothing rationing will be extended to encourage home garment making.
An old Digger pesters officials for a job and ends up plastering recruiting posters on gravestones saying Wake up Your country needs you. The New South Wales section of the Army Inventions Directorate opens at 117 Pitt Street to welcome Army useful invention ideas for expert examination.
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