Warragul Shire Governance and Developments Highlights
The Warragul shire in Gippsland Victoria along the Princes Highway reports 50 inches of rainfall, primary industries grazing and mixed farming, and extensive road and public works managed by Mr. H F Stoll and Mr. G French. It notes housing expansion, a livestock auction yard, and varied facilities while detailing finance, loans, assets, and grants from the State and Commonwealth to support roads, housing, and recreation.
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Princes Highway
Tve
Warragul
State Housing Commission
Agricultural Society
Graats
Country Road Board
State Public Works Department
State Rivers and Water Supply Commission
G. French
Toodyay Road
Western Australia
Parrot Tutor Ad Sparks Investment Dispute
An agony column ad in The Times of London offered a tutor for a parrot named Pretty Polly at thirty five pounds. The ad referenced Scots investors and a naval officer as rivals, with the bird’s owners anxious about competition and the tutor to be paid ten pounds weekly until training completes.
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Times
London
Umb
Brigit
Siddons
Filming in Africa by British Cameraman Stephen Peet
Stephen Peet, a British cameraman, spent three years with a Central African film unit. He faced harsh conditions, filming in colour before dawn, with local recruits and rare wildlife, yet the unit produced over forty films on farming health and animal husbandry for African audiences.
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Stephen Peet
Central Africa
London
BBC
Peet
Africa
Oly
Army Tackles Rust Woes in Storage and War
An army spokesman in Sydney notes 85 percent of storage maintenance is corrosion prevention. Since 1943, high humidity and salt air in New Guinea increased corrosion, with rust sometimes as damaging as enemy action. crates used to vent water, not boxes, to slow rust.
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Sydney
New Guinea
Also Mentioned on This Page
Shire OF Warragul
Gippsland
Victoria
H. F. Stoll
Ower
Fordson
Ives
Ferguson
Murton
Dunmunkle Shire
Dunmunkle Standard
Austin
Amuu- Los
Beavis Bros
Northam Goomalling
N. M. Clancy
Bolgart
R. J. Buchan
Toodyay
Toodyay Herald
Pretty Polly
Freemasons Hotel
Ossie DE Mamiel
Freemasons
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