Government to Maintain Meat Control and Floor Prices
The Deputy Controller of Meat Supplies reports that from July 1 to October 1 the Commonwealth will continue buying surplus carcass meat meeting UK export specs at ceiling-based prices. Mutton and lamb ceilings will be reduced mid July, with further cuts as supply allows. Guaranteed floors aim to stabilise markets and support breeders exporting in August and September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S.A
T. F. Rice
Commerce and Agriculture
W. J. Scully
Meat Advisory Committee
Commonwealth
United Kingdom
Farm damage in Philippines surveyed by UNRRA economist
Walter H. Pawley an Australian UNRRA economist completed a survey on war damage to Philippine agriculture. Philippine Under-Secretary Jose Camus praised the report as a clear basis for rehabilitation policy and thanked Pawley for addressing the country’s critical food and agricultural rehab problems. Pawley formerly led NSW Agriculture research and taught at Sydney University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter H. Pawley
Sydney
UNRRA
Phillippine
Agriculture and Commerce
Jose 3
Camus
Pawley
Australia
N.S.W. Department of Agriculture
Sydney University
UNRRA Aids Yugoslav Villages Rebuilding Efforts
In Bosnia, Lika, Korden and Ban ja, across southwestern Croatia and Slovenia, residents begin reconstructing homes and villages despite ongoing distant shelling. UNRRA supplies now support the reconstruction as peasants fight time to secure firmer, lasting repairs against renewed offensives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bosnia
Lika
Korden
Banja
Croatia
Slovenia
Yugoslavia
UNRRA
UNRRA Delivers Rinderpest Vaccine to China
UNRRA has flown one million doses of a secret rinderpest vaccine to Shanghai for an emergency campaign against China's farm animal disease. The vaccine, shipped with U S Navy help, is expected to give lifetime immunity and will be fast tracked to disease points in China where rinderpest has decimated cattle and draft animals, with death rates sometimes reaching two million annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UNRRA
Shanghai
China
Hainan Island
U.S. Navy
A.W.A. to Install Duplicate Beam Picturegram Facilities in Sydney
A.W.A. plans to duplicate its Beam Wireless Picturegram equipment and add a new Sydney station. Faster transmissions and higher definition pictures have boosted popularity, with overseas partners helping cut rates. The Melbourne terminal will be expanded to decentralise services to other centres as Amalgamated Wireless pursues growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.W.A
Sydney
Melbourne
Amalgamated Wireless
They Died With Their Boots On From History and Literature
A list of figures who died violently or non naturally. Includes Charles I beheaded after Civil War, Pyramus in Shakespeare, Alexander King of Yugoslavia assassinated in 1934, Cleopatra quoted, Englebert Dollfuss Austria, James Cook killed in Hawaii, Latimer and Ridley burned, Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford’s Theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitehall
Hawaii
Charles I
England
Pyramus
Pyramus and
Thisbe
Duke Thesus
Anthony and
Cleopatra
Englebert Dollfuss
Austria
James Cook
New Zealand
Australia
Hugh Latimer
Nicholas Ridley
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Ford’s
Washington
John Wilkes Booth
Arms From UNRA: Crete Fisherman Seeks New Limbs
A Crete fisherman, a veteran of the Albanian campaign, loses both arms on a mine. He travels with a human chain across Greece toward Athens to reach UNRRA aided artificial limbs and rehabilitation at the Athens centre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crete
UNRRA
Anthens
Athens
New Fishing Fleet for Poland Ships Bought from Denmark
MNERRA purchases 15 fishing vessels from Denmark for Poland to rebuild its Baltic fishing capacity. Vessels range 20 to 40 tons, collectively can harvest over 500000 pounds per catch, cost £100000, rated excellent, and undergoing minor repairs to start work by month end. Used entirely in Baltic waters recovering Poland’s wartime losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mnerra
Denmark
Poland
Baltic
Asia Ltd Expands Picturegram to Sydney for Joint Sydney Melbourne Editions
Asia Ltd plans a duplicate station in Sydney to broaden Picturegram access, enabling simultaneous overseas picturegrams to Sydney and Melbourne. The upgraded AWA service will link Beam Wireless channels from Sydney to London, Montreal, and San Francisco for direct transmission and reception of pictures, benefiting the public and the press.
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R. J. Finlayson, Limited
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Condon
North Laura Hotel
W. H. Moyle
Port Pirie
J. S. Wurm, M.P.S
Chemist Gladstone and
A. W. Sandford & Co.,ltd
Wirrabara
A. W. Sandford & Co. Ltd
Sandfords
Adelaide
S.A Egg Board
Victory
Christian Science Monitor
Christian Bejenes Publishing Sealesty
Anserense Amd
Bydesy, Australie
Pleneg Eeees
Selenre Meniser
Heme
National Library of Australia
Phillippines
Mary
Elizabeth
Jane Grey
UNARA
Builder's
E. A. Gale & Sons Builders, Contractors & Undertakers
Sixth St Gladstone
Ethel Pascoe
Cross Street
Dr.Horse
Dr. Morse
Grenfell Street
A. C. Read
General Motor Engineer
Buick
Pontiac
Chevrolet
H- V. McKay
Massey Harris Pty. Ltd
H.P. Ariel Motor Cycle
P.R
Forgan
Forgan’s
J. & R. Forgan, Limited
Crystal Brook
Joan Budge
G. Cook Gladstone
Caltex
W. G. Cook
Eley Brothers
General Blacksmiths
the Laura Hospital
E. E. Hanley
L. M. W. Judell
Review Office
Jamestown
Smour & Sons
Mik
J. H. Smour and Sons
Caltowie
M. S. McLeod Ayr
Pulteney ST
Adelan
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