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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 23, 1942
Page
4
An agriculture chief praises lucerne as a vegetable over spinach for canning and irrigation areas. A meal tasting favors lucerne shoots over cabbage and beer, noting young Lucerne is best, rich in vitamins A and C, with potential to ease shortages.
Colonel E J Monro of the United Country Party condemns Curtin Government subsidies as paltry and insulting to Australian dairy producers. He argues a 3d rise would add £5,000,000 to producers’ cheques, while the actual offer yields about 4d per lb after wages and decrees, leaving farmers with little real gain and renewed anger toward policymakers.
Tale from Papua New Guinea story claims a Japanese airman was carried by a Mozzie over the Owen Stanleys after being shot down. Official line says fighters shot him down. Local commentators say he was seized for a meal by a mosquito pilot seeking a quiet spot.
A Glen Innes shearer reports a Callandoon South Goondiwindi pledge by shearers to work for 10 a day under wartime conditions. The resolution calls for government wage controls, tooling, transport, and housing support to equalize pay with soldiers, aiming to boost morale and maintain industry during the war.
At a Bega meeting, dairy farmers reacted with anger to the Federal subsidy described as charity. The motion urged raising prices to cover production costs plus a fair profit, not less than 1/6 per pound to producers, with strong dissent over standing rainfall remarks.
RAF Mosquito aircraft conducted a daylight raid on German targets near Hanover Wilhelms Haven and Bremen. The mission aimed at manufacturing and port facilities with precise hits reported by RAF communiques.
Gloucester Branch reports at the CWA conference in Wauchope. Officers named include President Mrs P H Deards and Relief Officer Mrs L Rye. Membership 26, Younger Set 20, funds £48 4s 4d with over £90 raised by youths. The group notes deaths, activities, bank support, nets making progress, and hopes for peace with divine aid.
A Moscow statement reports that between mid October and December 1941 about 8500 Russian war prisoners and peasants died at Rostov prison camp south of Smolensk, averaging over 100 daily. Through winter the rate fell to 400-600, with dead loaded to carts and buried. prisoners were stripped of clothes and frostbite risk grew.
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