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Newspaper
Quambatook Times
Location
Quambatook, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 02, 1915
Page
2
Stock returning from agistment shows heavy losses with many animals perishing in transit and on freight cars. War Precautions Act updates restrict alien enemies and naturalised subjects, require regular check-ins, forbid possession of arms, and bar enemy newspapers. Also notes bank note rise, school grounds lively, a furniture sale, and rate payments for enrollment.
A Quambatook MechaniCal room meeting notes progress on a petition to Parliament about the Murray Waters Agreement. Mr Mann is named for petition heading. Griffith to interview water movement leaders. sub committee to meet Saturday night. letter from Attorney General regrets attendance.
Weekly market report notes end of week prices for butter cheese eggs bacon lard and grains with figures for Wheat Oats Barley and Malte. It also covers drought relief observations Geelong water supply rainfall in May and local council matters including rail water shipments road works and a proposed war memorial in the council chamber.
The State moves to advance a bulk wheat elevator plan in Victoria with J P Jones of Canada engaged to prepare full reports and designs. Jones, 50, will visit Victoria with an engineer to spend ten weeks on the project, with the government paying £140 plus travel costs. The proposal extends to Western Australia South Australia and New South Wales aligning with Victoria.
Reports detail Gallipoli and Dardanelles fighting as Australian and Allied troops press Turkish lines. British submarines damage Ottoman shipping. German offensives stall in Lille and Galicia while Russians push from the River San. Italy's declaration widens Allied strength. Lusitania disaster sparks American uproar. Servian army resumes action after quiet months.
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