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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 31, 1944
Page
3
Decisions from the Premiers' Conference in Canberra outline Commonwealth subsidies for hospital care. A daily 6 shilling benefit to state public wards and similar sums for intermediate and private wards in public hospitals, with means test suspensions. Additional capital, tuberculosis, and venereal disease funding arrangements are noted.
At a union meeting growers urged the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture Mr W J Scully to pay 14 per ton for potatoes at sending stations. Organising secretary Mr Frank White read a reply noting the matter will be given further consideration and a further letter would be sent to the Union.
The meeting discussed nominating, forming a Ben Lomond branch, and electing officers while allowing members to choose branches. A cannery effort in New England drew support, with Minister W J Scully to meet delegates in Armidale Glen Innes or Guyra toward month’s end. Train service cuts and tax stamping for peas and potatoes dominated the agenda.
Four year old Douglas Sanders trod on a broken bottle while playing in a yard Saturday morning. The wound required five stitches at Dr Child's surgery and is expected to heal with removal of the stitches today.
The executive committee confirmed a permanent appointment for a new treasurer replacing J. Williams. J. N. Squires outlined adopted potato digging rates with margins for larger lots. A motion was made to hold a fusion on the subject at the next meeting.
A call to join the Argus newspaper by pledging support for the district paper. The message promotes a youth readership age 18 and urges readers to back their local publication.
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