Among the Troops Overseas Address by Rev Hawking
The Rev Harold Hawking VADLC.A officer recently returned to Australia after 17 months with seven fighting forces in England and Libya. He spoke at Horsham Town Hall detailing wartime morale, welfare work by Red Cross YMCA Salvation Army and Comforts Funds, and vivid anecdotes from service life in Colchester Edinburgh and London.
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Dunkirk
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British children making toys aid war effort at home
In England children carve wooden toys to occupy time while fathers and older brothers join the war effort. Toy makers shift to smaller outputs as factories retool for weapons, with London stores reducing Christmas toy space due to wartime shortages.
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England
Ge Lund
Royal Forest
Britain
London
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Reaaon
Millehembhe
Mmeh-Precision Engineering
Howe
Mm Plare
Session Highlights and Controversies Across Bills
The week featured intense debates on the Coal Mines Regulation Bill and the Facts and Shops Bill. Labour split over the Werribee beet ban and tomatoes board, while a proposed rural wages board spurred heated exchanges. A compromise limited tomato boards to market workers within 40 miles of Melbourne as the session closed with supply granted for six months.
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Hogan
McKeneley
Wonthage
Appeal Court
Labor Party
Cain
Legislative Council
D L. McNamara
Labor
Werribee Farm
Country Party
United Australia Party
Everard
UAP
Evelyn
United Austra Party
Michaelis
U.A.P. St. Kilda
Mackrell
Cremean
Ewer
WAP
Heidelberg
Zwar
Mr Old
Sanaty
Melbourne
State Wheat Yield Estimate in Australia Reports Record Harvest
The Railway Commissioners estimate the state's wheat harvest at 40 million bushels, with adjustments from various districts. Figures include 18 million bushels offset by deficits, and detailed regional yields from Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, and northern zones. Transport measures to move grain from farms are planned, led by the Wheat Transport Emergency Service with ministerial and board participation.
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Aertel Hire
Whoarerowink Mths Pleks
MG. Wishart
Salome
Tallarat
Mildurn
Akmaome
Bendigo
Fotwa
Ryihwwin
Avery Vale
Yhngera
Goolong
Ballarat
Tenigi
Yarshols
Wishart
Aaron Ant
Lonelness
Melhone
Hallarar
Geelone
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