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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 30, 1941
Page
1
Sydney reports Canberra states the Commonwealth will immediately draw up a departmental policy to guide state governments in fixing motor registration fees. State governments have asked for a common policy to standardize the basis and levels of fees across jurisdictions.
Senator Macleay declined to state whether to lower or raise registration fees to affect Cary Ath. The record shows no clear policy hint, with uncertainty about UM governance and potential moves to the states.
Delegates from union branches met at Gitgandra last week to back a request from the Wheatgrowers Union. Mr J Hazleton of Toogongy attended as a participant in the conference and supported the motion.
Members debated deferring action while investigations proceed into a Mortgag e Bank proposal. A motion by Bings branch prompted a conference resolution to protest to the Prime Minister against Rural Reconstruction Board actions. Settlers allege debt adjustments were denied for not needing extra areas, with talks on fair terms and rates.
Thieves moved a heavy iron safe containing £276 in cash and cheques from a bakery using any van. The van was found abandoned near Cryd on. The safe had been cut open with an oxyacetylene burner and the money disappeared.
More than four thousand tanks are in the battle between German and Russian forces in Southern Poland. Russians claim to have destroyed about 300 Nazi tanks near Minsk while German drives toward Moscow continue. Analysts doubt Germany can seize Moscow as Soviet forces hold and press on other fronts. A German general is reportedly killed amid the fierce fighting.
The State Minister for National Emergency Mr Heffron states that steel helmets and gas masks will be issued shortly to air raid wardens in the metropolitan Newcastle and Wol. Several thousand yanigaka have come to hand and will be distributed as soon as possible, with supplies of steel helmets expected at an early date.
The Prices Commissioner was urged to investigate current machinery duplicate prices with a view to drastic action if excessive. Motions on petrol rationing sought a more liberal allowance for country car owners and reduced motor registration rates to align with rationing.
Reports describe one of history’s fiercest confrontations across the Russo German front. German panzer divisions broke through northern Lithuania toward Minsk and Moscow, while Soviet forces counterattack and defend key fronts. News from Moscow notes steady Soviet resistance, with uncertain word on German encirclement and relief efforts. US and New Zealand supplies to Britain are being discussed as aid moves toward the war effort.
A rapid rail service from Sydney to Wellington is launching early July, reducing trip time by about two hours. The express timetable will stop only at Katomba, Mount Victoria, Lithgow, Bathurst, Blayney, Orange and Wellington, with feeder services between Orange and Dubbo and additional trains on the Dubbo Narromine and Dubbo Orange routes. The October timetable may add an express mail train Sydney to Dubbo via Wellington, replacing the Coonamble mail, all to improve public transport amid petrol shortages.
Lord Beaverbrook named Minister for Supply and Sir Andrew Duncan becomes President of the Board of Trade. A dispatch claims the new appointments will trigger the greatest drive on record to mobilize war materials as Lord Beaverbrook takes key supply role.
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