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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 16, 1941
Page
3
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Letter extracts from Miss ML Chuwoo describe wartime life in England on 1 July 1941. Australians in Libya boost British morale while London endures raids on churches. butter rations rise to four pence per week, meat scarce, eggs ship arrivals easing shortages, and fruit scarce. Posts note bomb damage nearby and anxiety over Greece and Egypt, with blackout rules in force and reduced holidays. Rationing tightens, but residents remain resolute as shipping and warehouses face attacks.
In Sydney Monday Winchcombe Carson Ltd reports 1740 cattle yarded with strong demand. Top prices include best dealers 452, steers 46, heifers 43, pulls 2, cows 40 per 100 lbs. Maitland fat cattle yarding small at 700 fat cattle and 45 choppers bulls. market steady to best last rates. Bulls to £15 10, best cows to £12, calves and bobbies with prices rising modestly. heavy calves to 9d per lb, bobbies to 63, light to 12 per cent, calves pen of about 500.
An Australian creamery program to convert inferior butter into nonrefrigerated canned fat aims to cut secondary butter yield by about 5000 tons annually and ship it to Britain and overseas armies. The process preserves vitamins, raises food value, and may lead to more plants if successful. Debt and storage funds will be raised via deductions from compensation payments to support cheese production and emergency cold stores. Britain plans to buy only 7000 tons of Australia’s best butter, risking a large carryover of export butter.
A New Zealand soldier in the Near East praises Australians for their friendliness and freedom from conventions. He highlights Aussie officers and nurses as magnificent, their hospitality vast, and says New Zealanders do not match them in many ways. He recalls his time with the ANZACs fondly.
A Berkshire sow on the stud farm of Mr. H. H. Graham M.L.A. has dropped a litter of 19 all alive and thriving.
The death of Tom Nash aged 64 occurred at Roma hospital Gloucester River where he had lived most of his life. Survived by wife, nine children, and many siblings, he farmed at Never Never and suffered a liver illness before passing away early Friday after admission on Thursday. Burial was in the Church of England section of Gloucester Cemetery with services by Rev J A Smith.
Commissioner Dalziel presented the Lord Mayor with a cheque for £17,320 raised by a Salvation Army appeal. The fundraising drive cost only £170 to run, supporting troops through the Lord Mayor's Fund.
FURNITURE SALE TOM HICKS has received instructions from Mr. E Holland to sell by public auction as above the whole of his Household Furniture and Effects comprising Dining Room Suite 2 Bedroom Suites Carpets Hall Runners Feltex and Lines Lounge Suite 2 Lounge Chairs Wireless Mantel Model Kitchen Furniture Primus Electric Kettle 2 Lawn Mowers 60ft Hose 1 Remington Typewriter Royal Typewriter Sundry Chairs Tables and other items too numerous to mention This is a good lot of clean furniture in splendid condition and buyers are advised to attend the sale Terms cash at the sale unless otherwise arranged for.
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