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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 07, 1943
Page
4
Three thousand absent Cowper votes have been counted with 600 to 700 remaining. Howard J. P. 0, McElhone 4900, Moore 1730, Page 20633 after 21 633 total formal votes and 405 informal. Majority for Page over Howard about 2005, with counting centers showing partial results except Taree.
The BowThorne Butter Factory Morpeth reports a half year loss of £900 19s 9d for the period ended June. After previous balance the profit and loss appropriation account shows £1351 5s 8d. Directors propose a 4d per lb bonus on six months butter and a 3 per cent dividend, with £913 13s 2d to be carried forward. Butter output 18 tons, milk treated 1,406,444 gallons, casein 1 ton 16 cwt. Average payments to suppliers rose, while surplus milk net per gallon fell.
Meat Controller J A Tonkin said beef supplies to New South Wales would not be cut by more than five percent under the Commonwealth plan to restrict supplies. The scheme should start soon after the percentage per butcher is set by the Deputy Controller of Meat Supplies J L Shute. Tonkin expressed confidence that distribution would be equitable, with oversight from the Meat and Allied Trades Federation.
The Conte di Savoia, Italy’s fast liner, was sunk off Bagnara by two Invader fighter-bombers with a stern hit, after which it remained partly afloat before surrendering to reconnaissance planes. An Italian cruiser escorting cargo vessels was also sunk by American dive-bombers in the same area.
Mr and Mrs A W Frazer of Lindfield and Dungos announce their son John A Frazer, promoted to Flying Officer, is presumed dead after being missing since January 1943 near Malta. No witnesses or wreckage beyond a map and crash debris found. radio contact failed within 30 miles of his base. Sympathy extended to his parents and sister.
A New South Wales dairying chief states the dairy cow is the heaviest worked animal. A cow yielding 600 gallons of 4 percent milk in a lactation supplied about 180 lb of solids from her body. Inadequate feeding is a chief cause of unprofitable dairying. rising production increases costs but does not keep pace as a whole. Emphasis is placed on year round feeding and fodder conservation to withstand drought years.
Mr Justice Lynch of High Street Taree reported a tree near his property at Bunyah was struck by lightning. The trunk measured about 6 feet in circumference, leaving a stump about 2 feet high. Large fragments were hurled up to 300 yards, strewing the nearby paddock where his blood mare stood, though she escaped unharmed.
About 500000 sheep are to be moved from Cunnamulla Queensland to Bourke New South Wales a distance of 155 miles. Deputy Director General of Man Power New South Wales C J Bellemore seeks six men to drive six motor trucks and handle sheep for a transport unit at Bourke.
Deputy Director General of Man Power C J Bellemore warns all NSW shearers operators to file full labour detail reports within fourteen days of shed cut out. The returns cover shearings in NSW where sheep shorn exceed 1000, using forms available from the National Service Office or stock inspectors.
Stock inspections across Wingham Oxley Island and Gloucester districts describe dry months, heavy frosts and poor pasture growth. Milk supply and cattle condition declined. high prices and brisk future cattle sales noted. Contagious abortion and tuberculosis condemned. vaccine trials at Glenfield discussed. Legislation conflict over Travelling Stock Reserve powers outlined with no final act.
Ray Brooks of the New York Times reports from Istanbul that German morale is at an all time low as Allied bombing continues. Local political circles say continued bombardment could undermine Nazi control and bring surrender by Christmas with panic among Nazi leaders and Ges tapo agents in Istanbul.
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