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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 13, 1944
Page
4
A brief note urges ongoing care to sustain life and utility, highlighting organized maintenance as a moral and practical priority. It emphasizes steady upkeep, proper handling, and timely attention to needs to extend usefulness.
The article urges all citizens to invest in War Loan bonds to finance Australia’s shire war effort. It stresses bonds are secure, negotiable, and offer good interest, highlighting institutions will subscribe but require individual support to reach quotas. It frames voluntary investment as patriotic and fiscally wise, reducing tax burdens and aiding local quotas.
Mr. Tom Hicks offers 1000 head of good quality station bred cattle at Gloucester Shire Yards on Tuesday October including 650 Hereford bullocks aged 23 and 4 years, largely Warrinilla Station bred, for F. K. Mackay.
Mr. J. T. Reid told the Legislative Assembly that unless the Army releases more men for dairying or the butter subsidy rises by 6d 4d, dairy output will decline further. He said over 3,500 dairy farms have left production, NSW cattle herds fell 25 percent since 1940, and Britain’s butter imports were 15 percent down, with Commonwealth production down 25 percent. He urged at least 2d a lb for butter to cover war costs and warned of no incentive without higher price or subsidy.
Drummond criticizes railways in the Legislative Assembly calling for a transport policy council modeled on the Loan Council. He exonerates the Railway Commissioner, blames Federal dictation and a coal shortage for service decline. He notes steep crowding, reduced trains to the northern tablelands, and urges public action.
Supplies of pigs at the Sydney sales last Tuesday totalled 3100 with 500 stores. Heavy baconers and back fatters were firm while others eased. Store pigs market firm. Backfatters extra prime and heavy sold to 240 per head, good to 160, others from 70 up. Baconers 180 lb to 200 lb 135 to 145, 160 lb to 180 lb 120 to 135, 140 lb to 160 lb 105 to 120, 120 lb to 140 lb 89 to 105, 100 lb to 120 lb 78 to 89.
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