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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 31, 1941
Page
5
New Year’s Day will be quiet in Wellington with few local events. Some young swimmers head to the swimming carnival and many will travel to Orange for a racing meeting. The Wellington Bowling Club will hold competitions while private parties mark the day in a subdued manner. Town residents hope for an Allied victory and broad peace by year’s end 1942.
W A Urquhart, plumber, operates from Park Street Wellington. Contact number 454 listed for service inquiries.
An ingenious device designed to give bomb aiming instruction to air crews on the ground under conditions approximating air. Based on an English model it is now produced in Australia. The apparatus saves flying time and speeds training. It is highly effective in practice and provides a faithful view of the ground panorama as seen from a moving aircraft.
The Director of Meteorological Services, Group Captain H. N. Warren, said access to meteorological information will be restricted to essential public interests. Arrangements provide confidential information to government departments utilities and other accrediting authorities.
The article outlines regulations on billeting troops, noting that households will be kept to minimal inconvenience. It calls for advance information to householders and arrangements by a Town Major or Claiming and Quartering Officer before troops arrive. Troops will be quartered based on available home space, with householders providing meals and bedding and receiving payment per the regulations. authorities may compel willing households if deemed able.
The Minister for the Army Mr Forde outlined how the governing-principle wheel will apply to call ups. Married men with three or fewer children may be selected before those with more dependants, while men with more than three children may be called if required. Married men in class C would wait until single men are absorbed, but categories by number of children are not feasible due to reserved occupations medical fitness deferment training needs and defence contracts.
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