UNRRA Seeks Australian Food For Europe and China Relief
Deputy Director of UNRRA details efforts to secure food from Australia and New Zealand for famine relief in Europe and China in 1946. He notes shipments of dehydrated meat, canned goods, and cereals, with hopes for more dairy, wheat, and fish imports to ease hunger amid postwar devastation.
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Europe
China
UNRRA
Australia
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Greece
Combined Food Board
Infant mortality in early Jamestown grave record
Reading the Jamestown Cemetery burial records, 176 total burials from 1873 to March 1830 reveal 73 deaths of children under three. Only seven buried were over sixty, with three reaching seventy. Limited hospitals, maternity care, and primitive medical services contributed to high infant death rates.
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Jamestown
Corporation Office
Laura Hospital Inc Annual Meeting Minutes 1946
The Annual General Meeting of Laura Hospital Inc subscribers was held January 31 1946 in Laura Town Hall with a fair attendance. The chair reviewed last year’s activities and financials noting a £285 12/3 overdraft due to higher staff costs and lower patient fees. Officers were elected by secret ballot with nine board members appointed for the ensuing year.
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Laura Town Hall
WV. W. Blesing
J. F. Roennfeldt
W. F. Wurst
Roennfeldt
T. W. Tassie
Board of Management
E. E. Hanley
R. Taylor
Messrs
F. E. Rix
G. Evans
J. 5. Wurm
E. B. Hanley
F. BE. Rix
E. BE. Hanley
L. G. Lehmann
Davies
L. Eyles
B. Wilington
Mr. Wurm
H. R. Lines
W. W. Blesing
H. L. Plaistead
J. & Wurm
Pioneer Farming Life in Northern Agricultural Areas
The passage explains why early deaths were high among settlers in the Northern Agricultural Areas. It suggests most migrants were young couples with young children, few elderly joiners, and that pioneer homes were sparse for raising families. It notes better survival for James Town born youths compared with the 1870s era. The pioneer path was rarely easy.
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Belalie
Anne
Whyte
Mannanarie
Bundaleer
Reynolds
Jamestown
Subscription Benefits at Local Hospital
The annual subscription of 10/6 enrolls each member for a 10 percent discount on all fees while a patient at the Hospital. A separate annual subscription of £1/1/0 grants the member's family the same concession. Members also have a voice in Hospital management.
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Pleseg
Garathey Lens
Magecian Sectinsi Paar
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National Library of Australia
Dr. W. B. Sutch
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H. E. Hanley
Eley Brothers
General Blacksmiths
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Ethel Pascoe
Cross Street
W. G Cook
Caltex
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Nature
Dr. Morse
Eudunda
Weeties
Weetbix
Torren’s
LION
A. C. Read
General Motor Engineer
Buick
Pontiac
Chevrolet
H- V. McKay
Massey Harris’ Pty, Ltd
Massey
A. W. Sandford & CO. LD
Wirrabara
Laura Creamery
A. W. Sandford & Co. Ltd
Sandfords Ir
8.A- Egg Board
FE. K. Edwards
Subway
Jim Boxall
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Ustralia
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