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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 03, 1941
Page
1
In all Wanted Shades 3/6. Ladies Georgette blouses with lace trim and Lastex waist from 10/6. Also floral dress linens in 36 inch. Market listing highlights assorted women's apparel and fabrics with price and sizing cues.
A concise promotional message urges readers to buy only advertised goods and services. It argues that advertised offerings maintain a definite standard through reputation and consistency, aligning ethics with sound economics and ensuring reliable quality.
Read by 3000 people and the sole guaranteed avenue to place goods and services before the Gloucester District, promising broad reach. The text claims only a tiny fraction of buyers can be reached by any other method.
In the annual report by Commissioner T J Hartigan, NSW Railways reveals a surplus after £700,000 for wing maintenance and a record earnings total of £423,215,010. Revenue rose 16.34 percent while expenses increased 17.7 percent due to higher costs and wartime wage loadings. Passenger journeys hit a new high at 194,145,800 and freight tonnage reached 18,031,610 tons. Concessions to armed forces and disabled soldiers totaled £269,532, with the Treasury covering £607,814 in rebates. Defence work and rail improvements consumed funds, with several capital projects accelerated and staff loans to Commonwealth departments.
Winchcombe Carson Ltd reports backfatters unchanged and porkers up marginally at Tuesday Sydney pig auctions. Baconers and porkers see modest gains while supplies reached 1800 head. Rabbit skins slip with prices falling across lots, though some best descriptions hold value, as bidders reduce demand.
A military spokesman on Monday announced strict enforcement of Regulation 17 of the National Security Act to curb gossip and prevent enemies obtaining war details. Prosecutions will target letters and communications revealing prisoner information, troop movements, defences, or munition locations with penalties including fines and imprisonment.
The Minister for National Emergency Services announced four regional blackout zones for November 10 to 13 to cover coastal and border areas from Newcastle to the New South Wales border. Areas include Port Stephens Stroud Manning Gloucester Wallarooba Wing ham Taree Dungog Kempsey Port Macquarie and multiple shires and municipalities in the mid north coast and northern rivers regions.
The enrolment stands at 300 with 95 in Super-primary. Mr W Turner, on the staff over twelve months, is called up by the R A A P and leaves for Sydney early next week. The Teachers Federation plans the combined annual sports on Thursday October 30 with Red Cross catering. Inspector Drake notes many pupils will come to Gloucester next year for Super-Prim ary, with an expected 120 in that class and over 20 in the Intermediate.
A Herald correspondent shares a Tobruk letter dated August 29 noting that troops receive ample comforts from the Lord Mayor's Fund. The writer observes that servicemen are unaware of the fund's help for items like tinned fruit, lamb and peas, biscuits, and other meals that improve rations. The letter asserts rations are better due to the fund, while some troops remain uninformed about its source.
London reports a Yugoslav minister detailing German brutality in Slovenia inside Yugoslavia. The list includes mass deportations for forced labor, closures of churches, humiliations of priests, public displays before Hitler portraits, shooting over heads for sport, and girls sent to Germany for a life of shame. Also: Italian warships shelled Adriatic villages to quell Montenegro uprisings.
A Balkan story describes Greeks compelled to flee or endure humiliation in Bulgarian held regions Thrace and Mace Dona. A Greek priest and four civilians accused of hiding arms were flogged to death, while charges were later alleged as baseless. German authorities meanwhile report 58 Czechs shot yesterday.
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