Salvation Army and ACF Aid Troops Across War Zones
Salvation Army Red Shield Service and the Australian Comforts Fund collaborated to support Australian troops in Libya Greece Syria and Palestine. Mobile canteens aided front line Diggers with food, sweets, socks, brushes, paper and hot drinks while officers endured air raids. The program extended to Tobruk Ben Shugi Bardia and multiple harbours, with vehicles destroyed in Greece and casualties among officers. Palestinian camps and Malaya centers also received aid, funded and supplied by Australian donors.
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Libya
Benghazi
Tobruk
Greece
Syria
Salvation Army
Red Shield Service
Australian Comforts Fund
ALF
Red Shield
A.C.F
Bardia
Benshugi
Hosjer
Egypt
Australia
Palestine
Malaya
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Commercial Homebase Stock Sales Sydney Market Report
Market signals steady with cattle yarding heavy and prices varied. 1812 cattle yarded at Sydney with best dealers to 53 per 100lbs. Maitland yarding of 825 fat cattle and 45 bulls saw prime weights, heavy bullocks cheaper by £10. top prices reached £14 2s for a bullock and £11 for best cows, with yearlings up to £11 13s 6d.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd
Maitland
War slows Australian car registrations in 1940
Australia sees a sharp drop in private car registrations since the war began. September 1939 had 557,488 registrations, rising to March 1940, then sliding as petrol rationing tightened. By August registrations fell to 609,544 while commercial vehicle registrations rose about 20. New car sales near zero with 274 sold in August, far below 75,547 in 1928 29 and 5023 in the war's first month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Church and Nation Tied by Faith and Duty
Editorial urges church members, clergy and laity to renew Christian influence, stressing duty to establish righteousness and world peace under leaders like Churchill and Roosevelt. A church wedding, local dances for funds, hospital prayers, tennis results, and upcoming community events follow with notices from Presbyterian and Methodist circuits.
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Christ
St. Paul's Church
Edward Lawrence Davison
Roma Hellen Barham
Bowman River
Tuggerah Lakes
O.K
Waukivory
Oscar Sansom
Lorna Merchant
Clare Yardy
L. A. Waters
Life's unequal favors toward men in love and death
A brief reflective verse notes the unfairness men face from birth to death. It contrasts maternal praise at birth, praise from lovers, gifts to brides, and widow's claim on life insurance, highlighting gendered expectations in love and mortality.
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Salvation Army and
A.cf
Uene
Church OF England
Methodist
H. Lynn
Kemptey
Gloucester
Waukivery
C. Slade
Gloucester Laces
Church Aid
Tabulam Cattle Sale
N.S.W. Bred
Heeford
Dalgety & CO. Ltd
Aye H. A. McLeod, Esq
King Street
W. E. Sparke
GCR.) Pty. Ltd
McLeod
Gloucester) Pty., Ltd
Dance School of Arts
J. Brien
Walkivory Hall
Children’s
Methodist Church
Slade
McCarthy
Gloucester and District
Taree
W. Metz
Old Bar Road
Gloucester School
Price
Greenfield
Leopold
Croydon
Primary Producers’ Union
Primary Producers’ ‘Union
School of Arts
M. Newton
Shire OF
Stratford and Craven
Barrington
Stratford
Co. Kemp
Shire Office
Ciloucester
Craven
Harold Lowery
Tom Hicks
the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission
Mary Ann Ashworth
A.A. Company
County
H. Bevan
Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission
G.P.O
W.C
Turner & Eerbeck
Ward's River
W.tout
HG Barham Bowman River
Lh.c. Products
International Milking Machines
McCormichdeering
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