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Newspaper
Inverell Times
Location
Inverell, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 26, 1942
Page
8
Carole Landis stars in a musical romance set aboard the lonely West Coast night scene. The film features five songs and backing by George Montgomery John Shepperd and Robert Lowery as Cadet Girl pairs a lively Club 28 with danger filled work of line men.
The Courier-Mail reports warning of inevitable food rationing in Australia unless land army labor is boosted. Queensland ministers Bulrock and Foley warn that butter and pollinator shortages may require rationing unless rural manpower is recruited. They cite labour gaps in pastoral and cotton regions and note relief measures in Callide and Gansen Valleys with Aboriginal and relief entrants.
Parishioners honor Private Clem Austin with farewell speeches at his departure from town. A joyful reception at the Austin home echoed strong affection for the young soldier as dancing continued into the early hours. A quiet Tingha England wedding joined Edith Myrtle Morris to Arthur Allred as guests attended at her aunt Mrs. Lavender's home. Keish Beis given farewell at public school reunion. weather and Forte notes brief urban updates.
Fragmented OCR text from a wartime page shows scattered references to battles, names, places, and dates jumbled with incomplete phrases. The readable bits hint at international conflict coverage, but exact events and context remain unclear.
The wartime rationing note outlines scarce common goods from household items to matches and mercury instruments, detailing how steel and cellulose based products have become pivotal while civilian needs outpace supply. It notes shifts in production, price pressures, and the broad impact on households.
The report details British and American leaders discussing vital war aims in Washington, including keeping supply routes open and amassing a naval and merchant fleet for the initial war phase. It notes relief aid to cotton and country districts, and references mass atrocities against Polish Jews, with figures cited by a Polish council representative. It mentions Japanese and Chinese resistance news and German aggression around Sebastopol and Kinarkovs, with various blurred battlefield notes and wartime shortages.
A spate of street defects near Oxford Motel and River Street prompts Alderman O Connor and the mayor to consider council action. Work crews chip cement paths each morning, address holes in Braz Street entrances 103, 103, and a dust filled footpath area near the Salvage Depot. Ald Squires seeks erection of stock enclosures from park cuttings. question on tethering cattle on unfenced private property. Town Clerk proposes draft employment conditions for staff to formalize a jet of action.
The article discusses a new commercial scale method of carbonising peat developed by British engineers. It promises tar yields up to three times higher than existing methods and aims for increased diesel and oil yields. It also seeks to extract about 9 percent carbon hydrates from tar water to produce acetone for cordite manufacture. Peat is noted as having industrial importance for propellants and fuel, with vast global peat bogs and peatlands across Britain, Ireland, Russia, and Canada.
The fragment discusses valuable metals and commodities amid imperial trade, referencing London Times commentary and reactions to Belgian Congo and South Africa. Names include Union, Belgians, and Moray, with notes on ports and global markets impacting prices and allocation.
The text claims women have more advanced colour sense than men and cites percentages of colour vision differences. It notes about 6 percent of men and 1 percent of women show colour vision deficiency. Complete colour blindness is rare, and red green confusion is most common while yellow blue deficiency is rarer. It also mentions inheritance across generations.
A worker sought help from an Aboriginal man in Bourke to drive cattle from Cunnin for a butcher. The drover offered the usual wages of week and provisions. The Aboriginal man refused, questioning wage adequacy and insisting on fair pay before taking on the job.
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