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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 29, 1940
Page
2
Yesterday's marine style grocery notes show Horsham store provisions for various goods. Names appear as Bouse stigoo na Qatter Ballarwt and Mow Mun Dahl a Yaron with middive items. Entries include linen, weekly measures, and quantities for delivery or stock.
Horsham reports a local item involving HOEY and Dimes at a public event. The notice notes action by officials and dates not fully clear. Details are fragmentary but point to a municipal matter requiring reader attention.
Fragmentary text appears to describe a weekend schedule or event with names and locations. Readable items include scattered phrases about heat and a person named Me male, with limited clear facts or context.
A ragged OCR article references war work, medical efforts, and civilian support in Australia during a WWI period. It mentions committees, donations, and public appeals led by officials including Mr Linke and local figures. The piece notes hospital work, soldier care, and readiness pledges amid wartime strain.
The readable passages suggest a fragmented historical newspaper page with scattered names and phrases. It mentions wartime topics, merchants, and names, but the overall meaning is obscured by heavy garbling and errors. No coherent events or entities can be reliably identified.
Letters from Horsham to Canterbury describe life near air raids with pens of resilience. Horace Hopper reports German planes seen and shot down while Britons stay alert and determined to endure and keep enterprise after the war begins. The Hygienic Bakery Co notes operations and local branches amid the conflict. A separate incident recounts a bullet piercing a nose while a man cleans up after a warehouse fire and car cartridge explosion.
The Wanacknabeal committee plans to purchase two ambulances funded by £1400 donated by citizens. One will be sent to the army for overseas service, the other to the Air Force for use in Australia. A gala day is planned to hand over the vehicles to service representatives, with a veteran to travel to Adelaide for the ceremony.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a note about Powis ALCOMM and BLExXD with PETROL heading to a V5.4 destination. Mentions a 10 per 5 saver and Ruth to My with UL Walia for SR. Waite and alee per context unclear.
A Sunday service feature at Methesiive Munday School with children's choir and audience singings. Alix Hoye led the program unveiling a new item Sweattdown while Margeret Moskinsoli and Matfarte Whitutock assisted. the event included theatrical tomes and communal responses.
The Horsham Church of Christ Bible School held Sunday services that were highly successful in attendance and in the children’s performances. Pastor Coldmekel delivered the message Bulld Inc. Mrs Sherriff led the day’s program with piano accompaniment../ The children’s exhibit included colorful pyramids and a large chart outlining the Saviour’s birth. A concluding evening featured prizes and a supper after the final services.
A lengthy article outlines legal wrangles over water allocations and dammed lakes, including hearings in the Supreme Court. It mentions state authorities, farmers, and county officials tied to water conservation efforts, with references to the filling of natural reservoirs and related legal actions and deadlines.
The article outlines evolving export trade in textiles led by Britain and Japan, noting shifting European and colonial markets. It cites large volumes of yarn and cloth moving to Canada Africa and the Middle East, with Britain and Japan increasingly influential while European and American demand adjusts to postwar conditions.
A London dispatch reports shipments of porcelain ware from Doulton Works to Australia, despite wartime restrictions. Only a portion of the production reached overseas, with most insulators and wares remaining for domestic use as the factory suspends some exports.
The text notes kangaroos and emus intruding in wither districts, driven off by edge of crops as wild animals disrupt open country. It cites shortages of natural food and reports on fat lamb marketing guidance from the Australian Meat Board and Department of Agriculture advising humane handling to avoid injuries and improve export quality.
The text describes differences in feather growth between pullets and cockerels, noting body feathering timing at about nine to ten weeks, wattle and neck feathering patterns, and how early feathering relates to breed standards. It mentions similarities to corks and pottery textures and compares ducklike and turkeylike features across grow-out stages.
Britain faces shifted coal supplies as Huntress coal from the Atlantic is diverted to South America and Portugal. Canada and other regions gain, while Germany’s invasion of Scandinavia reshapes European shipments. The war alters Britain's energy outlook and future trade choices as demand and supply adjust across oceans.
Reports describe heated exchanges between ministers over a proposed government plan to fix wheat prices and guarantee purchases. Key figures, including Cameron, criticize terms while outlining potential allocations and controls on cultivation, with emphasis on wartime needs and national distribution.
The Prime Minister unveils a broad cabinet reshuffle detailing new portfolios and senior appointments. Key posts include Minister for Defense, Information, Treasury, and Civil Aviation, with several junior ministers and assistants named across government departments.
Agricultural experts from all states met in Melbourne to examine methods for implementing Commonwealth drought relief plans and addressing marginal land areas. The gathering, presided over by J F Murphy secretary of the Department of Commerce, outlined proposed actions.
A wire-rumour from Burney-Momlay quotes the Minister for Agriculture My Rosa arguing that the price for wheat ports proposed by the Commonwealth Government would ruin more than half of New South Wales wheat growers. Smallholders could not profitably shift to other crops while larger producers could diversify more easily.
In Stawell Meg Sty, tied to Klara, and Kiddle among five trainee Aimsdinens, work with wool and sheep in the sheds. South African Defence topics are touched on, alongside obituaries and local social notes of families and community figures.
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