17 Jun 1947
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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 17, 1947
Page
1
The notes promote five year saving shares with cashable features at any time and tax free increases in value. They specify a £25 face value, urging holders to buy as many shares as possible to maximize savings.
Official notices describe census procedures with emphasis on counting every person in the Commonwealth. Special collectors will visit dwellings and ships by road or rail to gather data, and residents away during the count must be included or submit a personal slip.
Figures from Horsham Hospital manager W H Shoebridge show it had the slowest maintenance cost per occupied ward bed among B grade state public hospitals. The report notes 17.5 days average stay for Horsham patients and compares with 13.6 days at other hospitals, attributing costs to specialist facilities and outside consultations.
The article outlines long running brown coal operations including briquette production by the Great Mor Urguls Coal Mining Co with an 4000 ton output, notes periods of idle years and damage, and describes modernize to conveyer belt handling and briquetting process with steps from extraction to finished briquettes, mentioning locations in Victoria and South Wales.
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