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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 12, 1945
Page
2
A sermon on the Kingdom of Heaven growing from small beginnings to a mighty influence. It urges world peace through spiritual transformation, warns against religious hypocrisy, and calls readers to seek God’s kingdom with humility and faith.
School board approves bylaw adding North Half of Section 31 to Goose Lake Consolidated School District. Barbara Miller hired Grade VI at 1050 per year and Wilda Thompson Grade VII at 1050 per year. Property repairs authorized. accounts paid to multiple suppliers and insurers. meeting adjourned.
Citizens ask about using establishment credits to pay a second mortgage and about Veterans’ Land Act eligibility for CWAC and YMCA workers. Other notes cover education aid for a spouse, and NRMA training rights. The column notes meatless days, slaughter quotas, and wartime rationing. It cites V-E Day prisoner counts and Canadian zinc production at Flin Flon.
Meat rationing will be introduced shortly after Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced the plan. Donald Gordon, chairman of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, said the new scheme will cut per capita meat allowances to about 150 pounds carcass weight, with restaurants included and fish and poultry exempt. The prior consumption was about 141 pounds per person, and the ration will be roughly one and a third pounds per week of actual meat across all meats.
Rural Manitoba reports strong support for the Stamp Out Starvation drive by the National War Finance Committee Manitoba Division. Officials expect 80000 bushels of wheat to be surpassed as Canada pledges relief to Europe. Mrs. R F McWilliams cites UNRRA concerns and urges continued wartime charity through War Lamps purchases. Stamps are sold at banks post offices fairs and exhibitions.
Local tradesmen see sales with R C Low to Franchuk and Vernon Brown to Wm Hampson. Visitors include Jay Watson of Brandon and homemeaker club delegates to Kamsack. Cpl Lance Duns returns and signs for Far East service, Sgt Norman Dung discharged and heads to Ottawa. Eclipse disappointment and 25th wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs Kirton noted.
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