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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 12, 1942
Page
1
Instructions for guardians declaring children for rationing purposes and how to obtain or collect ration books. Details cover declaration forms, post or agent delivery, necessary identity cards, and steps for civilians and aliens, including losses, replacements, and deadlines.
Sgt and Mrs Dave Jefferies visited Toodyay last week with others on leave including E Pattern E Ferguson Sinclair Chapman Ferguson and Manuel F Chbde A.LF Mr E Dorizzi a Northam Hospital inmate wishes him speedier recovery Mrs E D P Hayes and family returned from the city Capt and Mrs Ernest Lee Steere hawthornden Mrs M Floyd left for the city Miss Mary Floyd Perth Miss A Sinclair to camp soon R Lloyd Coondle attended the Bee keepers Annual Meeting in Perth Mrs E Roach returned from hospital A Beard visited with his parents Mrs Wing senior injured wrist to Nor tham Hospital Warrant Officer Garrity back at camp after death in family Merle Ferguson Toodyay wed Len Christmass Northam St John the Baptist Church Toodyay Road monthly meeting to-morrow Saturday
Residents of Toodyay and nearby districts mourn the death of Sgt Desmond Drake-Brockman of the RAAF who is reported accidentally killed while overseas. He was born in Toodyay and lived there before the war. He and his brother Tom joined the Air Force and were sent abroad. The community extends sympathy to his family including siblings Deborah Robin Elizabeth and Pemberton.
A cigarette case initialled E R W was found between Toodyay and Bolgart and is to be returned to This Office. A reward is offered.
Ration Books will be issued on Saturday June 13 and Sunday June 14 1942 from 9 am to 5 pm to British subject civilians 16 and over with ID and to aliens 16 and over with Alien Registration Cards. Parents or guardians may collect for under 16 with consent and a declaration. Agents may act for ill or distant residents, with authority forms available at Post Offices. Locations include Toodyay Town Hall Culham Hall Annacubbine School Wongamine J. Goode serves as Divisional Returning Officer.
The Toodyay Agricultural Society announces a Kitchen Garden Competition open to Central Ward residents. Three judges will assess gardens in August September and October on quality variety utility and weed absence. Prizes awarded for first second and third with entry closes July 15 1942.
Farmers asked to bring scrap metal to the town dump in railway yards. Over twenty two months the Old Metals Branch raised £11,500 for camp comforts and about £30,000 to the nation’s war effort. Metals sold to local foundries at market rates. districts learn their contributions and munitions weight.
June 14 offers Holy Communion at 8 a.m. Toodyay and Evensong at 4.30 p.m. Clackline hosts Holy Communion at 11 a.m. June 21 provides Holy Communion at 8 a.m. Culham and 9.45 a.m. Bolzart inclinations at 11.15 a.m. Baker's Hill holds Holy Communion at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. June 28.
Catholic Mass schedule lists service times by town and date. Chidlow Mundaring Reece Oodway and Toodyay masses set for June with times 8 am 8.30 am and 10 am across different locations.
A Smith’s Weekly report notes Harry Finlay of Western Australia as a premier hand with the wool handpiece. Finlay’s 301 in a day at Three Rivers earns high praise alongside the famed Mad Eight of Willi and comments from George Bence and George Steel on the era’s top shearers.
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