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. THE . OF.FICIAL ORGAN OF THE W.A• . BRANCH OF THE R.S.S.A.I.L.A. c-.all, =- Clcbowledqe ~ •uch. mut DOt _ ..arUr be accept-.!. a• •talinq the oU!clal Yiewpolnt aegUtered at the G.P.O. Perth. for trmwnl.. toa br 1'oeta11 Subacrlpt!on: 3/8 per rmDWD Cl Kewerxri>er. GUARANTEED cmcu~rtoN _aa.o,oo (pcrtable In ad•ance) \1&1. XXVI. No. 1. PERTH : WESTERN AUSTRALIA JANUARY,l 947
WHILE writers rece~ly re out that the significa..9-ce of turned from Japan hav been atomic. energy's peacetime telling us much abo t the Controlling potential may be more easily devastation . caused by the Atomic Energy " I{ science could find understood when it is realised atom bombs dropped on a method of using bydrogen instead that .one po ·of uromium in the generation of atomic energy, und of uranium is Hir-oshima and Nagasaki, it would equivalent in productive. scientists undoubtedly be possible to create a bomb one thousand have been predict capacity to 1,500 tons of ing developments which will times os effective os the one dropped on Nagasaki." coal. -Professo However, there is an make the deadliest bombs of r Marcus L. Oliphant. other side to the picture. the recent war seem mere . Prof~sso r P. M. S. Blackett, toys by comparison. For instance, the former United * a· British scientist who, like ' Professor Oliphant, was States Assistant Secretary for War, Mr. John J. McCioy, one of those engaged in the production of the atom ~as described the first atom bomb dropped on Hiro bomb, states: "lt will take a considerable time, say shima as a "very crude affair-the crudest bonib 20 years, before atomic e nergy can b e harnessed for • of aii.".It laid waste (.the words are Mr. McCioy's own) normal industrial commerci-al use." He added that only one city and killed only 80,000 people. The Naga the capital expenditiure involved in such an enterprise saki bomb, which was also the type used in the Bikini would be gigantic. If there is a gleam of hope in this, tests, was far more devastating. Like Professor it lies in the possibility tihat what might be a retarding Oliphant,. ~r. McCioy declared that if hydrogen could influence in peaceful progre·ss might also be a restrain~ be used in the ~ generation of atomic en~fgy it would in g influence on preparations for war. be possible to produce a~ mb one thousand times as It would q'c blackin g o ut the g uiding lights of his powerful as the Nagasa bomb. The comparisons tory if we were to shut our eyes to the regrettable facts were obviously in relatio to the immediate reslftt of the that neither fears nor expense f1ave ever acted as deter explosion. The more remote results, such as the rents to war. Time and again have nations, ill-clad and dangers of radio-actUUty in the bombed area and the half-fed, with empty cQffers but· full c'qurage, fought on physical results. which,. according to medical men who · till they brought •wars to a victorious conclusion. flave observed them, might affect the third or. fourth Horrifying inventions have ap p~ared on the field of. generation of the survivors, cannot be determined for battle before today, bu t, so far from preventing wars, .. years to COJ11e. they have not by themselves always made victory pos We enter 1947, therefore, in fearful contemplation sible. The "Greek Fire" of Saracen times did not pre of the world's future in an era of unleashed and prob-' vent the Turks from over-running the Balkans. The ably misdirected atomic energy. The silver lining\ in. first use/of gunpowder in war "'\as an epoch-marking the cloud of -doubt ·and danger is th~ expe~tation that event in fe udal times. Its effect on public opinion was the most stupendous scientific discovery of the....century comparable with that evoked by the German use of may be of tremendous commercial and industrial value, poison gas in 19 15. Shakespeare was using no mere • while the use of the atom . bomb can make war so fi gure of speeclt when he spoke of "villainous saltpetre," appalling that tHe very fears engendered may .m~ke wars and Bayard, the personification of all that~as best in ( extremely unlikely, if not' altoget.per impossible. Both . the age of c~iv RADIATOR ACCIDENTS ••• Radiator accidenta may hapZ:n with even the moat earoful drivers, and cores damaged. It s, ho"!,<>Ver, good to know tha t We FAIRWEATHER·& 50N A. F. Hoaie & Sons (National) td. can duplicate any core for BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS any make of car or vehicle w llh just as satisfactory reaulla as the or!glrtal core gave. They are fully equipped ~r manu- facturing the new "Vee-core" core•. ,.) Telephon~s: A • .F. 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They prepared the way for the land forces, Defence Pqlicy Thro.ugh ··The which ani the deciding factor in the winning of all wars. General Hutton's plan for our volunteer army was revised in Y~ars consequence of a visit from Lord Kitchener in .1910. His views were accepted by Parliament, and the progress made with his new _From a Speec~ ·jn the Senate. by Colonel H. B. Collett.. scheme was reported upon, early in 1914, by General Sir Ian Hamilton. The outbreak of war in the following August found it only half developed. It was a'gain examined about 1919 and HoV:' .much ~e owe to the experience and aid of the people of 1920 by Generals Ch ~ uvel and Brudencll \Vhite, and certain t?e Bnt1sh. Isles may not be fully; realised. But, through the ages, modifications were app'fved in regard to organisation and equip• SJQC~ the tJ_me .of Alexander the Great, certain principles of defence ment. For an overall review we had, in 1934, the bep-e1it of a · have been 10 force and unchanged. As we well· know it was Alfred visit from, and the advice of; Lord Hankey, who had been secretary· the Great who, in d~;visi n g a plan for the protectio~ of England, to the British War Cabinet and the Imperial Council of Defence. organis.ed a navy to o"perate in conjunction witli ' his small land During World War I, aircnift made their appearance as a force. That w~s the genesis of the "blue water school," which, for weapon and a potential strategical force. It was two army officers, ·. centuries, by persisting in its advocacy of a strong fleet, has ren Trenchard and Salmond, who cotrectly visualised their future. In dered ·us such service, jlnd never more than in 1939·45. Alfred and 1928, Air-Marshal Sir John Salmond vi~ited Austplia an& made~ the- ~chool were na10.y·minded. So, for a thousand years of our hia· recommendations which were not only adopted, but had been more tory, there have been strivings to secure appropriate co·ordination than implemented by the Australian Government before the open• between the aea and . the land force•. . ing of hostilities in. 1939. To this report· we owe, among other In Australia, in 1902, two years af~ Eederation, General Sir things, the construction of the Air Force Station at Pearce, Western ' l!dward Hutton propounded the first s:~~me for our defence, by Australia ,...... Th'e fact that 1939 found us unrcady was mainly means of an army designed to co·opcrate with a British naval due to the actions of the Scullin Government, during its term of . squadron. During t he next decade, we provided tQe nucleus of office . . . . our own fleet, .and followed that up by seeking the advice of Ad .A rcfrospect of the war of 1939·45 brings into relief and justifies miral Sir Wllliam H enderson, who visited us and sub~tted a report the mention of: ( 1) The. ineffectiveness of our Army at the time based on a conception that the Indian Ocean and western seas of the outbreak. (2) The vigorous and immediate :\ction taken by would be strategical focal points of the future. Sir William's the "Menzies Government for participation with the Empire in a views were never ful!y im"plemented, because of the outbreak of .war great and prolonged war, and the wisdom of its basic arrangements, in 1914, but the existence of the battle cruiser Australia and its ( 3)The gallantry aJ1d efficiency of our forces in many campaigns supportin·g ships drove the German squadron from these seas, and fought in many parts of the work!. ( 4) The proof of the value and inade possible the occupation of New• Guinea. The ·Admiral of the need for the maintenance of tr.ain.ing institutions for officers of the Fleet, Lord J ellicoe, came to Australia early in 1919. After the three services and of the necessity for continuin':' the system of that, our _ naval policy was re•oriented and with what results no exchange of officers between Great Britain and 'the Dominions: effort of memory is required to appreciate. It should be pointed ( 5) The failure of the Government to recog nise adequately with out that the actions ot Cos:os Island, the Falkland Islands and the rewards the great services rendered to the nation by the senior battles at Doggcr Bank and Jutland were as effective in winning commanders of the forces. (6) The voluntary efforts of ex·members the war of 1914•18 as were the successful operations in the Coral of the forces, and the people as a whole, at a stage when the Sea, Midway Island arid the Solomon Islands, in respect of the nation was endangered. (7) The failur~ to. form a National Govern· ~ A . MATTE}t OF POLICY! LADI?S' WRI~T~ET ~WATCHES r' \ 15 and 17 All W~tches Jewel Guaranteed Leve~ Movements 12 Months A ~ limited Consignmen-t of LADIES' W~STLET WATCHES is exp_ect'!!d in the future, and in occordO'nce with their Policy of rationing articles in short supply, STEWART ·DAWSON'S ore pleased to inform their clientele . that, on arrival, these LADIES' WAT.<;:H~S will be allocated to members weoc:!n.g the Badge of the League r A special ollocotiort.\ will be placed aside for Country Clients / CALL" OR WRITE Page 3.....,. THE t. -1-.STENING POST .\_, -~ - - I TIMBER THE R.S.L. SHOP. ·I K A R. R. I-· JAR. R. A.H- WAND 0 0 , 570 HAY STREET, PERTH ! Unequalled for Gene~! 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DlJNKERTON I many ~ :W.A.O.A. (Dip.), M.N.A.C?:- of them c---- has b~en di sc~arged from the R.A.N. and has LUCAS BATTERI£8 resumed practice at the above address. ' FO R AN UNDERSTANDING SERVICE . .. · Mead Son e? ·Coy. ~~~ts/ ~'c~o1t~~ ~ 2!!o~~re~~l: • FUNERAL & ~CREMATION - DIRECTORS and Accident Insurance. Established 1851 A. L. INGR.AM, ' "'""""190 Albany Rd., Victoria P.a rk. Phone M 11 58 Mgr. "GOLDSBROUGH HOUSB," 33 Cannfng Road., Fremantle. Phone L 1'460 1- 162-1"64 ST. GEOR.GE'S TEJtRACE, PERTH ) .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Special i sin.{A~e~;Sta tBsROS. Premier Contractors to ·the Fighting "Forces .. . 82-84 JAMBS STREET ·PERTH. Phone B 9001\ 2 linee) Mackay's Aerated Waters ... . Refreshing . . . Sp~rkling . . . Wholesome Largest Exporters o.f P otatoes) n W .A. Sole W .A. A&ent! for Pllllioaa. •"Oftat Imitated-Never Equalled~' 16 . ~_,.-Flavoun tcfOlooee from. ~ ' ' m~nt at tim~ of acute crisis-such an ~ction would have heartened ensure that full . and suitable employment shall be available to all the people, encouraged our Allies, and impro~ed the administration ex•servicemen, the Central Ex-Servicemen's Bureau, within the Com of the whole war effort. (8) The success of the Government's monweath Employment Service, has been established. This Bureau negotiations with the Government of the United States of America affords special assistance to each ex-serviceman who seeks its assis• . and the victories which followed the JOint 'operatiolfs of the Allied tao~. . forces in th·e _Pacifi!=. (9) In view of needs t~e. . of the Empire and "!fhat some ex-servicemen on discharge may have difficulty in the free se~1ces. g1ven other Domm10n ~Y. and Allied troops, the obtaining suitable employment immediately; or, through circl!m' euor comm1tted m restnctmg the.sphcre in which Australian armies stances beyond their control, may experience a period or periods of ·might operate-even for the purpose of suc'couring our count ry• unemployment within the first year after discharge, has been ap· men in captivity. ( 10) The mistake committed in maintaining in preciated. For such persons and their dependants a Re-Employ• Australia two armies with. dissimilar conditions of service-this was ment allowance, at a more generous rate than the) Unemployment wasteful ..of manpower, costly- to administ ration and cngepdered, allowance available to members of the general public, has been amongst our own peole, ill·feelin.g that only the passage of many provided under the Re-Establish ment and Em'ploymcnt Act, 1945. years will eradicate. ~ll) An error in completely withdrawing our "The Commonwealth Government is committed to a policy of Army from the Middle East operation- our non-representations in full employment and its efforts have been constantly dires_ted to the battles in Tunis- and during the campaigns in Sicily, Italy and the development of the Australian economy so that suitable em· even on the old Western Front, in which our Navy and Air Force ployment will be available to every person desiring it. It is felt took part, has left blank a in Australian history and has not en· that this policy has been successful and will continue ;o. Should hanced our military prestige. ( 12)· A recognit-ion of Australia's ex-servicemen or women, through no fault of their own, experience vulnerability in the Pacific and our "'tsea s to he north unemployment after the p~;riod during which the special ben~fita need for an intensive study of changing political conditions. and of the re-employment allowance- is available, then they will, iD the p romotio n of friendly understanding with people; who ;bare common with all memb'ers of the community, have aeceu to the our ideals and culture. - general unemployment and aocial service benefita provided by the I may have been critical, .but that has been done in order to em• ·, Go\'ernmcnt. .- phasiae cert;l.in points. As to the future, we should have con- I "lt is felt that the Government has already made provision aa fidence. I believe that we have h ad our lesson, and that Govern· recommended in your resolution and that I cannot do more than ments and people alike, whilst supporting all measu r~ s possible confirm · rh at it is the Govern ment's intention to provide every to ensure world peace, will combine in· -urging that there shall assistan'c tl;at can reasonably be expected for the succeuful re• be no lack or failure in measures to protect ourselves from outlaw establisl-iment of ex-servicemen and women." nations. In this, tim·e..is the essence of the contract. R.S.L. AND POLITICS LOCAL MEDICAL OFFICERS A news item, which was given prominence in the Press, was the The following Resolution was adopted by th·e 31st Annual Co!l• the fact that it becam·e necessary for the State Secretary {M r. D. M. gress of the League, reading:- Benson) to inform _the Collie Sub·Brarich that no member. o f the (a ) That the duties of Local M edical Officers be made m(>re R.S.L. has been expelled because of , his political views. The Sub· simple in maki ng returns of examinations o f ex-service per• Branch had asked the State Executive to make known the position sonncl. o f Communists in regard to the League_. The Sub·Branch ex• (b). That when, in the opinion of a Local Medical Officer, ur• pressed the opin ion that no member could be expelled solely on gent hospitalisation of a member i s necessary and the tr~at· a~ount of his political utterances and alleged that a member had ment required is not available locally, the Local ¥eq1_cal been expelled by the last State Congress because he was a sup· Officer be empowered to issue a rail warrant to the cap1tal porter of, the Communist Party. In his reply, Mi. Benson states city o f the State involved, havi·ng first comll)unicated with that no member of the League· can be expelled solely on account the Repatriation Commission fo r t he purpose of- arrange• of his political leanings. He gave an emphatic denial to _the ments being made for the admission of the member as an allegation that a member was expelled by the last .Congress as inmate. tlte result of any political party a'fliliation, an~ poinfcd our t~at To which, the ~llowing reply was received by the Chairman, the case referred to arose from haprenings qUite outs1de anythmg Repatriation Commission:- . . political. · (a) The returns of examinations now required to be _furnished by The question of the exclusion of Communists o r members of any .I a Repatriation Local M edical Officer are s1mple. The genuine political party, as sucli, has never arisen in Western A_us· ( medical report fo rms are also. sim'ple in sct·up and, in cases tralia. The Victorian State Congress, last year,. carried a resoll,lt.wn where a special examination i s required, the fo rm to be, corn• declaring that Communists -were not eligible for membership of the pletcd by the Local Medical Office~ corrcspo ~ds _clo•el! League. A similar motion was rejected by the New South Wa~es _.,. to an imurance form. It would be d1llicult to s1mphfy the Congress in th:e following month. A F ederal ruling on the, pomt · returns and/or set•up of the medical reports and still ret,ain was to t'he effect that a member can be · expelled o nly fo r &ome the value thereof. specific· act of subs17rvience, or other conduct calculated to make (b) In connection with this question, the position is that the hi~ membership undesiraljle. and it '~as suggested that any member practice advocated by the resolution is already provid ~d for, suspected of-disloyalty m1ght be obhged to take an oath· of loyalty without the Repatriation Local Medical Officer havmg to to the principles and constitution of the League. . . keep and issue rail warrants:, When a Branc_h Office h~s So much publicity was given to ·the matters ans1ng out ~f _the been advised by a Local Medrcal Officer that ra1l transport IS Victorian and New South W ales Congresses, and to the act of necesary, the station ma\ ter. at the centre ~ncerne_d is expulsion in Western Australia, that it is hard to unders~n d why authori5cd by telegram to issue the necessary travel bcket the IT\lltter should be ·raised ·now, u nless one is to assume that on behalf of th'e Department and, in actual practice, has it i~ another quaiilf'little intri_gue like ~h~t la'-!nched b_r the _stooges proved most satisfadory, both as regards the patient and for outside organisations agamst the L1stem~g Post dunng the the Local Medical Officer. past two years. 'J:here should certainly be no m1sunder~ tandm_g as to why the- member referredAOwas expelled, especially as· Col he Sub· Branch was n!preS'ented/ at last year's {1>ngress. ' The o ffence had t nothing to do with politics. ( P · Owners TUCKPOINTING AND roHp~ y h Id r f TEXTURE CEMENT WORK QUSC 0 e S 0 IS THE ANSWER FOR _ ,-1 , EMPLOY__,ME~T _ ... PRESERVING AND DECOIL~TING BRICKWORK, STONEWORK, ETC. Hereunder is a copy of the reply rece1ved from the ~uuste_r for \ Water-proofing. Colouring, Frontages, Fire-places, e tc., Modernised Postwar Reconstruction, to For quotes, MetropOlitan and Country, write or phone. All ex-, repre s entation~ made regard1n:; Sllltable J. servicemen. employment to ex-servicemen. It reads:- M. J. FINN, 32- NAPtER sTREET, coTTESLOE "It is the constant endeavour of my Department to 'proVide for . Tel. F3t67. the successful re-establishment of ex-servicemen in civil life ...... -- To ' llete5-THE LIS.TENlNG .P'OST ·/ <-.___/ •. ) pensions and employment; . th'e care _of our ·sick and ~geing corn• State -President's Mo~thly rades, hospital visiting, etc. In the w1der and more. national sphere, there are the problems of peace and defence. wh1ch ~ust ~e ap proached in an ehlightened spirit, if the obJectives ach1eve~ m .war Newsletter are to be consolidated in the years ahead. The New Year is upon us ;•nJ as we look to th·e future· it is COUNTRY HOSPITALS perhaps well that we lo AND OP-ERATIONS ok back ovcr the year left behind. This The Federal time last year, the world was indeed Congress passed the following res?lution:- . . at peace, but we had not yet "That representations had time to acquire a full realisation of the fact. be mC:de to the Repatnauon_ ~J_DhliSSIOn For many, the that where country servicem.e years of danger, suffering and sorrow were still . , as the result of war _mJunes, have too near for peace to be operated upon for non to bring consolation for the loss of loved ones, • rgent cases, _the authon~ be granterl or relief from the to the local Repatriation doctors, burden of sacrifice, so patiently borne through six nightmare or ex•serv1ce ~oc.tors m-such ~tas, years. to perform such operations_ in_ The past twelve months, however, have made possible- the t~~ main hospital centre applicable return to the respective of more normal states of mind. For the R.S.L., as well as for country _d1 ~tnct. ._ . the The Chairman, Repatnat10n Comm nation, the year has been o11e of planned endeavour. Among the 1ss1on, re_pli_ed:- . "I desire to advise that, in general, achievements of the past twelve months, one can point to Faver• a Repatnauon Local Med1cal Officer would report the case sham House, which was'"'ollicially opened on December 15, by to the Repa~ri ation Branch Ofli<;F the and each would be dealt with on Lieut.·Governor, Sir Jamcs Mitchell, and Lady Mitchell, in the its merits, having regatd to the tn;atment required and the faciliti presence of a large representative gathering of sub-branch and es available in the locality and the wishes of the ex·membe women's auxiliary representatives. On Christmas Day, there r concerned." were nine guests in residence, and we feel tli3t . this is t he begin· ning of a very successful enterprise. R.S.L. House, in Perth, is "BUILDERS' REGISTRATION another achievement which has been fill ing a long·felt want in the An item submitted by Gosnells Sub·Branch city for about to the State Congreas six n.1onths. The· \Var Veterans' H ome' Apj>eal recommended that the Builders Registrat wa5 given a very gratifying ion Aet be am•nded ~ response by the public. For this, one permit of the grading of regis _must thank the publicity tered builderi:- given by Press and Radio, and 'unremit• A Clan: All Buildings. ting work of sub-branches and their auxiliaries throughout the B Class: Building• up to £3,000. State. With the New Y car, a start will be made with the campaign C Class: Jarrah-Weatherboard and Asbe1tos DwelHnga up to for the extension of the State War Memorial, so that the men . .£1,500. ·who gave their lives in the recent war can be commemorated as The Miqister for Works, Me. A. R. G. well as the fallen of the First World Hawke, to whom the War. Last month, a Sydney matter was submitted, has advised· the League paper rderrcd to the R.S.L. as the that it is not prac• ~vatchdog of the service men ticable to amend the Act along the lines· suggested, and further and women, aQd praised its efforts when reviewing Federal Congress points out that an amendment to the ~et was items. For i nstan~e. Congress seeks made paid to a wife (i.~, if ex•soldier in receipt of 100. p·cr cut. · .Repqtriation lnformatiQn pension, 44/· p.f.) or less in accordance with the 'degree of incapacity of ex•soldier. The pensions of children over 16 By E. S. WATT. ye.ars of age are subject to the means test, th.e rates shoJ~n above' being the maximum payable subject to. deduction of income. In this article, I will explain two aspects ~f . Repatriation; that of . the types of P~!lsions . a·nd the rates payable to dependant~ of de· The children of deceased .soldiers whose deaths were due to war ceased and incapacitated soldiers, and that of Service PensiOns. service are, of course, pensioned on a more generous scale, receiving ·. Widows of tpose whose death is accepted as · due to war ser besides, additional benefits. vice receive a pertsioq. of 100/· per fortnight. This pension is Service Pensio~ · ' not subject to a means test. · Differ entire from War Pensions, insofar as eligibilitj is . not . Widowed Mothers dependent on the acceptance of an ex·membe;'11 disabilities as . The main essential is that the deceased son must have been un• being due to war service, but are subject to a rrleans test whereby married and his death due to wax;, ser.vice. His mother must have the income of a service }lension..:r from all sourcs, including pen• become·. a widow prior to, or within three years, of his death. sions, must not exceed- 105/· per fortnight, or an aggregate of Widowed mothers. Qr unmarried mothers 'of deceased soldiers who 210/· per fortnight for man and wife; and the value of his assets, -:' ·were born out of wedlock are included, provided that the deceased excluding the home in which he resides, must not exceed £.650 unmarried sol~ier was brought up by them and that soldier's death (or £.1,300 for man and wife). was due to war s·ervice. · Subject to the above limitations' regarding' financial circu~stances, The penl ion is paid in accordance with the rate of Army pay 'of there are thre~ main grounds f9r eligibility, vi:o., ( 1) Old Age; or the deceased soldier and, being in accordance· with the ·.first ( 2) Permanent Unemployability; .or ( 3) Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Schedule is ~no17.1n as the schedule rate, providing:- Those qualifying on the grounds of age are:- • · ( 1) That schedule rate is lteiQ_w 100/· per fortnight. A male who has attained the age of 60 years and .has- . (2) That prior to enlistment; of her son, the. widowed mother " served in a theatre of war. . · was de}lendent upon him or ·would have been but for his A female member who has reached 55 years and embarked ~nli&tment b!!'fC?re he reached a reasonable;; earning capacity.. for service abroad. · P ). That the widowed mother is resident in the Common· 'Fhe maximum grant of service pension in the&e ca11es is 65/· per wealth, or any Territory of the Cdmmonwealth. fortnight, and no · service pension is payable' to dependants. ( 4) And would not be in receipt of an income from all EligibiliLy for pe.rmanem unemployability ser.vice pension re• scources (including the rension) exceeding 100/· per quires that the member is permanently incapable, by reason of fortnight. physical or mental disablement, of being employed in a remunera• tivc occupation in which, in the opinion of. the Commission, he Under these conditions, }lension may be increaS'ed so as to allow a total income from all sources of 100/· p~r fortnight, but at no time · will pension be red:uced below schedule rate. Should a widowed mother remarry, it is encumbent upon her t I E. W. ·cARSE For all Classes of General Engineering. BUNNING .STREET, WEST PERTI:f ... Te_lephone B 4428 Returned Soldiers ! ll.I.NESS SAVE for the med ical expenses which, Don't discard your Khaki Uniform! sooner or later, come to every family. Have it Dyed Navy Blue or Black by SAVE for costs of schooling and h igher j 'lJStM- education which may make all the Zf fit'& differenc«: to the future o f your children. ~~ SAVE while you p l :~ n your fu ture home. Then save for those little improvements al'lf/,'1/[IJ¥1_. which go to build up t h_e comfort and ~--•,.••••- contentment of family ltfe In a home. W.A's FOREMOST CLEANER & DYER · SAVE for your holidays- that break in ===tM/Ii.)#. ~~~!~~~~~~~t~nteh~th~~~0o?~~~7d~~~~ * ;::::;::;::.•••••••••1 whtch will gtve you fresh JOY In livmg · The Khaki that served yoll so well 1 OUR PURPOS ~ is to help you in every overseas will make ·a wonderful work \ way possible to· make t nese savings. Consult ' our nearest Branch or Agency and start suit if you have it Dyed by HORDEN. The cost is 8/6. J • . J. & E. L-ED CER Ltd. G?nly the best is gOOd enough for the Fighting Forces, and our quality Hosiery is being used ENGi NEERS, BLACKSM ITHS AND ' IRON FOUNDERS in the four corners of the Globe. Make sure / - * you d emand and ·get our ~egistered Brand. ( 235-249 PIER STREET, PERTH ', \l FRAN ~K~LAN .D / * WE S T - L~ A N D MANUFACTURERS OF A~ CLASSES OF ' H 0 S E R Y ' MAC tq iN ERY ,-·· Franklyn Hosiery Mills, Subiaco, West. Aust. / I <.__2ti ~ L I S T &GN I N P 0 iT - Page I can reasonably be ex'pected to obtain regular .employment and he ployment until finally discharged. As the situation exists at present must have served in a theaUe of war, or, in the case of· a female a member is free to enter civil employment immediately following member, embarked for service overseas. the date on which his discharge takes effect. If an ex-member is suffering fr9m Pulmonary Tuberculosis, a "If during such em'ployment an- ex-member s.hould incur an in· grant of Service Pension is subject to the same financial circum• jury for which he was entitl'ed to bcn~fits under the Workers' stances as in the case of old age and permane~t unemp loyability, Compensation Act, it would be improper for him to receive bene• 'but service jn a. theatre of war is not necessary. fits from the Army also, and being a civilian and not under Army A grant of service pension· to a married ex·m·ember, either on the control, it would be impossible to admit the ex•member to an grounds of ·Ilermancnt unemployability or Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Army hospital for treatment·. also entitJes his wife and his first four children under sixteen years "Having regar}l to the foregoing, it is regretted that the terms of age to a grant thereof, provided that, in 1914 War cases, his of the Resolutior referred to cannot be acceded to." . wife was married and his children born prior 'to October 2, 1931. A reply couched in similar terms was received f50in the Minister Th·e maximum rates payable in these cases arc as follows: for Air. Member, 6'5/· per fortnight. ' Wife, 44/• pe,r fortnight. First Child, 10/• per fortnight. RECONSTRUCTION TRAINING Three Other Children, 51· per fortnight. DISPOSITION OF FULL-TIME APPLICATIONS AT THE Only in the case of grants on the grounds of Pulmonary Tuber• END OF: 1946 culosis is a... service P,ension and an invalid or old age pension payable at one and the same time. "'c: "'Cl ,g ....0 1J l3 l! NUR~I NG ;g, ;.:I c . Many ex-service women may no~ be aware of tQ.e benefits avail· .~ "' c.tll) able under the Reconstruction Training Scheme for those who wish <.,"' ._"0<"' to train as nurses. . · . --~o._ o!:l <·a"'c: In the· first place, the Government, in an effort to combat the ·u...... ·; 0..., o-" 0 ... acute shortage of nurses throughout Australi}; has raised the age Ze<:: z..~ ZE-< for eligibility from 21 to 25 years. This means that any ex• Ty}>e 729 service ~voman who enlisted on or before her 25th birthday ·is University ...... 1,474 1, 163 eligible for fu!l•time training in nursing and, as long as she is Tech. Profess. 1,283 999 657 acce'pted by the matron of a training hospital, she will receive the Vocational ...... 7,960 5,202 1,465 firt:incial benefits available under the scheme. He,r weekly rate of Rural 222 103 21 pay while training will be equivalent of the salary of a "C" class sister, namely, £3/3/7, plus board and residence. In addition, bene· Total .... 10,939 7 ~467 2,872 fits include an annual allowance of up to £10 for books and .£20 for equipment, uniforms and instruments essential for training. Should t~e trainee wish to continue ~raining t,o obtain her OFFICIAL PUBLICATION second and third certificate, she may do so under the scheme, but In August last, the proprietors of "The Listening Post" wrote any financial assistance given after the' third year will be in the to the State Branch. requesting rel~ef from the terms of the agree• ]lature of a loan .. ment entered into over 20 ye ,HE VICTORIA HOTEL· HAY· STR~ET, SUBIACO Spadoua ·Lounge. - Pirst·clasa Accommodation - and your old Host ..• "BILL" ARTIS (late Balmoral Hotel and ht Field 9<>y., 1\uat. Engineers) Telephone W 1479 ) OXFORD HOTEL LEEDERVILLE, MOUNT HAWTHORN ·Always the But with Service, Civility and C!eanlinua THE BEST HOUSE FOR THE BEST S-POT J. J, PRENDBRGAST, PROP. (late 5bt Bn., A.LF.) Telephone B 7569 CRITERION HOTEL HAY' STREET Special Luncheons for Business Men Superior Accommodation at Moderate Tariff · B. J. CHURCH, UCENS~ AND MANA<;iiJR I t \ , I I NOW WE HAVE YOUR FAVOURI~~I NK E. & L. METCALF ENGINEERS, TOOL AND GAUUGE tMKERS. LETCHFORD~S 138-340 BEAUFORT STREET,· PERTH OUR FRUIT DRINKS STAND ALONE * . ':;· ,* . * Contractors to the Telephone L 1714 Commonwealth Government Telephone B 5785 \ / BY_RNE'S GUILDFORD SINCLAIR TYRE -SERVICE LTD. "M HEAD OFFICE: . · HOTEL . \ otor House," comer Wellington and Mlll•- gan Streeta, Perth •. Telephones B 2860, 85037 E. P. BYRNE . . FREMANTU lUNCH· (!at\ 44th Bn.) LiC. ~· QUEEN AND CANTONMENT srS., Pho.. L 2945 Telephone MLS RICAPPING, RETREADING' AND HEAVY DUTY . · *---. . . .REMOULDING . Superaor _ Aooommodatiou · NEW TYRE · GU~iANTEE • ALL ·te NIW TYRIS SOLD 1 . . · are apparently interelted in ao.me of. the pOitwar conditiont iD Auatralia. e At a recent meeting of the Bruc:e Rock euh•branch, former e Congratulations to an old friend, C. G. Lathim, preside Mr. on hU _nt Harold Wilkins was honoured with the presentation of recent election to th'e Legislative Council. He is an experienced. a walking-stick. Harold, by th~ way, ie ·out and about again, Parliamentarian who represented York for many after anOther spell y~ars in the in Hollywood Hospital. He went practically , . Legislative Asaembly, being also Leader of the O}>position and of from hie bed• to the meeting at the request of the sub-branch. th'e State Country Party. He left the Asaembly when elected to Before presenting the atfck, · acting•preaident Stan Brown detailed fill a vacancy in the Senate, but was unseated at the ensuing ~ec• "W.ilkie'e" record of service, . wruch will not be beaten by many . tion in 1943. . Since he ha.S been R.S.L. ttn, State Director of War . memben. · He waa a foundation member of the sub·branch Loans. Charlie Latham serv'ed with the 16th Bn. in the Pint when it was formed in 1919. 'He was vice•president for some World War, and has be n a good friend to the Digger ever 1inc:e. ·years and president for 121 years. He has represented the sub· While Leader of the Opposition in the State Parliament, lie iqtro branch at many State ·congresses and h~. been a country vice· duced the -Bill to have the Licensjhg Act amended, so president. that the an• The acting•president mentio11ed that the Totally Dis· nual subscription to the League could also cover membership 'of ahled .1\aaociation helped to }>rocure the sti~ that' was presented. the An~c Club. Before the' amending Bill was carried, the law A Certificate of ·Service was also presented. In reply, ·Mr. Wilkins demanded a separate subscription of at least .£1 a year for club · made i1 special appeal l:o all young Diggers to carry on the work membership. The amending Bill received the generous support of the League. He spoke very highly of the nursing attention of returned soldier members in all three .political parties df both ~ he had received durtng various. trips to hospital. Apologies were Houses. It will be like old times again to be hearing Charlie presented for the absence of the president, Mr. McGuigan, who Lathani's voice in the State Parliament. waa in Perth. .Among the visitors were representatives of Narem· been and Shackelton•Kwolyin sub •branch~ -- e A welcome visitor at the December meeting of the Narrogin sub·branch' was Clayton Waugh, a Narrogin lad who saw service • Many o( the Brltish building tradesm'in, who passed through in the Middle East and New Guinea. Since his discharge, he hu Fremantle in the Largs Bay on January 3, had b'een in. Australia, or been living in the Manjimup district, where he is an agricultural had met Australians before. ·o-ne of the men, Mr. E. Kendrick, offi'cer-and he has taken a wife with him. He is now a member waa decorated for his exploits at Arnhem. He serv~d with the of the Manjimup sub-branch. Pint Airborne Division, and later with the Sixth Airborne Divi• sion. It was in Tobruk in 1941 that he first decided on coming to e To Mt. Hawthorn football and cricket fans, an interesting wed· Australia. "The Australians made up my mind for me," he said. ding was that between Shirley June Robertson and Lew Nathan, "By the time I came out of Tobruk, I was an Australian." At on December 28, at the Ross Memorial Church, West Perth. The leaat two of the men, Messrs. P. Roberts and W.A. Borrino, spent reception was at the R.S.L. Hall, Subiaco. The· bridegroom some time at. Fremantle during the war, as members of submarine is a popular football player for West Perth and a cricket player crews. - Several others have been· at the port in other ships of the for North Perth. He is the eldest son of the Listening Post's Mt. Royal Navy. Mr. M Leonard, who was station·ed at an R.A.A.F. Hawthorn correspondent, and. served 'with the 2/lOth Bn. through· station in Queensland while serving with th·e Fleet Air Arm, also out the recent war. A brother is still aervng wth the - knows B.C.O.P. Australians well. Several of the men who had been in in Japa.n. · Wesrern Australia said they hope.d eventually .t? liVe in this State. e Gloucester Park Sub-Branch recently lost two members by death e Just before the year ~ded, Mr. Bill Hyde, one of the trustees of in W. H. (BillY Green and Totn HeP.worth. Bill served with the Dalwallinu the aub·branch, underwent a very serious operation. 108 Heavy ·Battery and, although h·e bad been ill for some time, Latest reports from Dalwallinu say he has been making favourable hiR sudden passing was not exJlected. Tom had been employed at progresa and expects to be convalescing soon. He &'erved with thoe Government Tramw;rys and latterly ~t cpe Swan. Brewery. the lOt~ Light Horse duririf the first war against the Huns and their }>a~era. The Rev. ·B'iJ Riley, of Dalwallinu (son of Bishw On New Year's Day, Tom, ofi... Bendigo, and grandson of th'e late Archbishop}, waa e the daughter of "Ham" McCaig, of the Gloucester Park Sub·Bran~. operated on for appendicitis during Decemb~ We are glao to passed away. Miss McCaig ~et learn that he also is making good progress witb a serious accident a few years ago and she cheerfully earned to~ds recovery. An· . her troubles otl:(er. Dalwallinu stalwart who has be·en in h.6spital is Henry Frost, , being an object lesson to many fit peo,Pie. J who haa had a bout- of rheumatic fe'(er.'We 'are glad to report that I ·he is hack at work again. e The new medical superintendent of 110 A.G.H., Hollywood, . . is Dr. F. K. Wallace. He served with the AI.P. in Libya, Oreece • Jim Hill, of the Denmark -- and Crete and was awarded the O sub·branch, - .B.E. has recovered from the ill· for his work in Gree~e. He neas which n·ecewtated a· tong spell in Hollywood Hospital before served through the Bougainville campaign as A.D.M:S., 3rd AlW the 'end of laat year. We join with the sub-branch in the hope tralian Division. Dr. Wallace was Government MediG!!-1 Officer at , -that his recovery will be permanent. Broome from 1936 to '1939. While at Broome, he acted as Resident Magistrate, in addition to the usual flying doctor ac• e W·e join with the Fremantle City sub·branch in extending deep tivities. sympathy to member George B.radshaw, who has been officially J advised that his son, previously r'eported misaing, is now presumed e N,edlands reports the..J.kath in Adelaide, on December 14, of dead. Mr. C::harles Ver11on W1ckens. During the First Wo~d Wa~, h~ served with the 2nd Artillery Brigade of the A.I.F. on Gallipoli, e Qur Katanning correspondent reports that sub·branch &'ecretary, - and in France. During the more recent conflict, h·e :was an. e.n~r· Peter A. Stevens, haa enlisted in the Noble Army of Benedicta. getic member of the Nedlands unit of th~ V.D,.C., wh1ch he Jomed ~ the Christmas Party of the sub•hranch on Deeember· 18, hi& at its incel>tion. He served with th'e urut until he was transferr~d / t.~llow·members extended con~rat:Ulations and best wishes. A wed· to Adelaide i~ 1944. Members of the Nedlands V.D.C. Will ding presenu in the form of .a cheque, was presented by Mr., W. cherish memories of a quiet, (unassuming and efficient officer and-· Matthewa, whose eulogistic remarks were supported hx Mr. J. C. gentleman. Pope. · ~ e We join with the Nedlands suh·~ranch in congratulating ~ra.ham e Th;;ederal Office haa been~aaked to find pen-friends for. two W. Leevers in his success at the recent Accountancy exammaoons. ' young English girle, who would like to 20rrespond with Australi~s He is a son of an old sub•hranch member, J. C. Leeve:s. G~ham of tlleir- own •age; and of either sex. T-he ,young ladies. a:re: Miss had six years service in the Second ,World War, and ts takin~ a Vera Salisbury (17!}, of 28 Station Road, Woodville, near Buft?n· rehabilitation course in accountancy. In the recent .Inter~rediate on·Trent England; and Misa Na~ COxon (18}, 123_0ccupabon Examinations of· the Federal Institute of Accountants, he bed .for • Road, Aibert ymage, near .Burton•on·Trent, England. The girls third place in the aggrel!(a~~ · pe also ~ass~d in al) subjects. ~ Poge 11 -li !i { LISTENING P.O S"f . (/ ' l e Messrs. H . A Lesli'e, M.L.A, and J, Craig will leave by air on established the 6rst qualified radiological practice in this State. February 11 to represe.nt W .A. at the special Federal Congress to In 1930, he lost a leg as a result of his pione~~ work i? radiolo~y. begin in Melbourne on February 13. The Congress has been con• He had been president .and treasurer of the Bn~tsh _ Medtc~l Asso~a· vened to re•open the· question of eligibility for membership. The two , tion in this State. The lato Dr. Smtth was mterested 10 mustca1 delegOltC& of the W.A. Branch have been instructed to speak and vote comedy production. Y cars ago, he was chorus. m,aster .and later in the terms of the resolution of the State Congress held in Perth principal comedian for the popul~r Con~ert Arttsts Soctety. 0~ last Octolter. T his recommended the dcsiribility of widening the one occasion he was offered a professiOnal engagement by Str membership r'l!les to admit all men who volunteered to serve Benjamin Puitcr, but he declined the offer. · anywhere, and were acc«!pted for active service, and who s·erved for not less than six months, irrespective of where they served, and · e A line soldier ·and a ~ plen did man went west, in a· very literal who were honourably discharged. sense, on Sunday, January 12, when Herbcrt Jam'es Fowles was drowned, after the capsi~e of his dinghy, while he was attending e The late Dr. Donald Smith, who was called to higher duty early to crayfish pots about t wo hundred yards off thci. coast ne.ar in the month, was a man well·known In professional and musical Geraldton lighthouse. To make the matter even more tragtc, circles in Perth. Born in Sydney in 1892, he graduated from ~e his brother who li\•cs at Armadale, had been the hero of a most Medical School of the University of Sydney at the age of· 21. He gallant effo~t to lift a man from the path of an oncoming train went away with an A.A.M.C. unit in 1915 and served on tb·e at the Perth Railway Station. The late Mr. Fowles had been in Western Front and later in England, where he gained ettensi've the lighthouse service since he was 21. He had previously &e rved radiological experience. H e married Prances Margery Chennell, at Cape Naturalistc, Point Cloates and Cape Leeuwin. An original an Australian nursing sister, in London in 1918. He was in Syd· 11th Battalion man, he served throughout the First World War ney·for a while after his return, and then came to Perth, where he with that famous hard·fijlhting unit, of which he eventually became Mt. Lawley-Mayl~·nds Rec.ommended Businesses JN.GLEWOOD Fl' . t ' / HALBERT & CARGEEG J. 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All Water Prest Filtered I MOLD'S Peninsula Bakerv OLD SUITS LOOI: LIKE NEW. FROCKS CLEANED '& PRESSED ' BY THE SERVICE· DRY CLEANERS FOR BEST B.AKED BREAD-* ALL VARIETIES 147 BEAUFORT sTREET (FEW DOORS Flio,M NEWCASTLE Jir.J MAYLAN DS -- P~ON E U 1163 SUITS, 5/ 8 - FROCD, (;. ' L. BASTER, 'Proprietor. . COBAIN BROS. ROBINSON & -DICK Pharmaceutical Chemists. Each M.P.S., Ph .C. Wholesale and Retail Bufche·r~ tt ~ ~·V:~"ec,~trs~t Tt(near ID9l• wood Hotel), tn9tewocxt. ~. 5 1• am Termi.Dua, North Perth. Phoa.e a ISM. 182 RAILWAY TERR:.\CE, MAYLANDS For the D!aponsion og your P~acrlptlona Try c 1 s Cou b Telephone U 1253 Mizture and our Sy-rop of lriah Mon. · We s~~k A.nd.~· Hlqb.Clas• Seoda. 1 ~_,_..-----~~~~~ ~ r~. T H E L I S T E N I N G P 0 S T - P11ge 12 ' Regimental Sergeant-Major. His war servic'e won him the D.C.M. VALE BILL LYNAS and Bar, and the M.M. H e left a widow and a grown•up family of three, t o whom opr heartfelt ~ympathy is extended. Australia lost an outstanding soldier and gallant gentleman, and . many, a firm friend, when Bill Lynas died suddenly this month. .e Captain H. S. Alien, master of the motorship Palana, which Walton James Dalton Lynas, together with Harry Murray, V.C., passed through F remantle this month, is ma~ in g his first voyage C.M.G., D.S.O., D.C.M.; Percy Black, D.S.O., D.C.M., C. de G.; m th~ .Merchant Nav>· .aft.er being demobilised with tile rank of "Fat" McCarthy, V.C., C. de G.; and others enlisted in 1914, and ~aptam from the Royal .Navy Re s erve~ During the war, he was came together in the original l6 ~ h Battalion. Bill was given his corn• m command of th ~ repazr ship, li.M.S. Artifex, which was a unit mission on Gallipoli and commanded the battalion during, its of tpe British Pacific Fleet. He was last at Fremantle in a merchant last battle o~ September 18, 191 8, at the capt\Jre of Le Verguier, ship as maste~ of the- liner Mooltan. where 450 p_:isoner.; were taken. H e was wounded at Vairc \Vood on July 6, [918, and during his service he wa7dwarded ~ . Back in Western Australia, after an absence of 27 years, is the D.S.O., M.C. (and two bars), and was· Mentioned in Despatches. Lzcut.·Colonel F. Bell, the fi rst•Wcst Australian to win the Victoria Cross. · H e left this State as a membe.r · of the First Contingent to At the outbreak of the Second World War, Bilf Lynas enlisted the War in South Africa, in 1899. He was wounded, and left and was very annoyed when, because of age and incapacity, _be <'again with.. the Sixth Contingent. It was at Brakpan, on May 16, was excluded from an active service unit. He was a country 'hap 1900, that.he won the V.C. When retiring th"rough a heavy fire, and was engaged in mining w hen the end came, at Null agine, on after h'llding the right Oank, Lieutenant Bell ( as he then wa~) January 12. His passing is a severe loss and wljoin witb·ruetnbers noticed a man djsmounted, returned, and took him up behind him. of the 16th Battalion Associatiof) and others in extendin'g sym• T.he hors·e, not , being equal to the weight, fell with them. pathy with his wife and relatives. . Lzeutenant Bell then remained behind and covered the man's retirement till he was out ~danger. Licut.·Coloncl Bell served, during . his lo!1g. absence from )'\ustralia, unde~ the British Colonial Office m Somahland, Kenya and Northern Nzgcria. H e has lately EX-SERVICEMEN AND THE FISHING INDUSTRY been living in H !!re(ordshire, but intends: to spend at least a year in \Vestcrn Australia. He is accompanied · by his wife, whom This year's Annual State Congress carried a motion put up by he married i n .PebnJ.ilry, 194). ' the Fremantle City sub-branch requesting the State Government to appoint a Royal Commission, with' comprehensive terms of e Returned soldier h as succeeded returned soldier in t l~c Q./Jice of reference, to inveStigate the fishing industry for the purpose of Chief I nspector of Schools of the State Education Department. controlling ex·enemy aliens and to secure fish ior people on low The position became vacant through the retirement of Mr. E. A. incomes. Colcman, on Decembed 3 1. Mr. Coleman, a graduate of the University of Sydney, came to this State from the New South The Minister for the N orth·Wcst (Mr. Coverley) , in reply, Wales Department .of Public Instruction in 1906. During the refers to a letter that he aadressed to the League last June, particu· First \Vorld War, he enlisted in the 28th Battalion, in which he larly to one part of the \etter, which rc_ads:- attained the rank of Captain. Always a popular and colourful "1 note your comments regardinJ: the belief that this industrv personality, he has made a host of friends, who will wish him long is c "ontrollcd by aliens. I t is true that a number of fi shc r m ·~>n years of good health and happiness in his r etirement. His sue··· employed in our fisheries arc of foreign birth, but the majority ccssor is Mr. T. S. Edmondmn, . B.A., Dip.Ed., who needs no employed in the industry are naturalised British subjects. Many introductiort to members of the R.S.L. Tom Edmondson entered of the younger generation, while of foreign parents- many of whom the Teachers' Training College in 1902, an~ graduated three years .are now naturalised-were 'born in Australia, wd would be regarded later to become an assistant at the · Fremantle Boys' School. At as natural·bo.rn British subj ect~. The Government, however, is that time, General Sir Thomas Blarney, still unknown to fame, was considering a proposal which hap been ap·p.rovcd by the Common• a senior assistant in the' school. lyfr.\ Edmondson was headmaster wealth Government for the establishmer\t of a training school f or \ of the Wagin-Sithool .when h.c joined the A .I.F. in 191 'i. H e saw young men intending to enter the fishing industry as a li ve-li hood,: service in Egypt and France, being severely wounded-and invalided and this may be the means of enabling. a greater proportion of home in 1917. H e resumed his s er.vice with the E-ducation Dep.art· men of Australian st.ock entering the industry. ment and took his Bachelor of'-Arts degree and diploma of "The question of the supply of fis h in ,adequate q·uantities for Educatioh. The ability to cons;ezrrr'ate on University work, after all internal demands is one which- because of the nature of the being wounded in a war, w:ts no mean attainment in its"el f. industry- is affected by a n umber of unpredictable factors including Throughout his teaching service, in country towns and in the those of weather conditions, fish behaviour, besides the cxisti,ng metropolitan area, he lias ah~ been an active and staun ch worker shortage of material and train_ed personnel. \ for the R.S.L., of which he i.s Immediate Past President and still a member of the State Executive. All Diggers will join in the "The Government. has ~ appointed an Advisory Com'rnittce to congrat\Jlations, to which we adc;l our own,· on his wcll·dC$crved investigate all aopects "of this industry, , which it believes can promotion. become of considerable importance to the JStatc, and w.ill consider the proposals and recommendations of the Committee, bearing in e The Federal President (Mr. Eric Millhouse, K.C.) and Mr. mind the points raised in your letter." . J. T . Wertheimer, of the Tasmanian Branch, have been selected to represent the R.S.L. at a conference of the British Empire The Minister also states that the ·report submitted by the Advisory Service League in London in July. \ Committee is )lt present under consideration by the Government, \ and it is horfcd to introduce the necessary~ l cg i slatio n at an early date, "and I feel sure," continues Mr. L;overley, "that if the legislation is passed in the form in which it will be. ·presented to Parliament, that the matters referred to in the resolution of your congress will be straightened out, and there will be no need to L. C. -LE-W.IS appoint a Royof Commission as suggested." ' 688 Wellington Street, Perth The training s cl)ool referred to in Mr. Coverley's letter will be .conducted under lhc Post·War Reconstruction Training Scheme. T he t raining autho"rity\vill be the Fisheries Division of the Depart• -~elephone . 8~12 ; ment of Commerce and Agriculture. The fi rst training course will / F\or ... commence at Cronulla,- New South Wales, on January 7. T he De y and Electric Welding puty Director of Post-War Reconstruction (Mr. R. ~ Wood) , stated recently that those ,attending this school will receiv~ instruc• iF1g, Turning and tion in all modern fishing operations. They will learn to make Engineering. and tepair all types of gear and will then take it to. sea ·and use it in commercial fishing operations. T he training received at Cr9nulla will equip them fozl positions in any" section of the industry. •( P~ge t3- THE LISTENING" POST (__ \~ Famous for" FURNISHINGS Victoria Insurance Coy ~~ "(:( Coun~e58 modem West Australian homes have been TRANSACTS AIL ~ OF INSURANCE furniahed by Aherns . . . Furnished entirely from Boor covering, curtains and draping• to the actual furniture The Oldest Australian Office e Eetablilhed in 18<49 itaelf. "(:( r CHAs H. CURLEWIS, Mgr. These homu· are models of interi r beauty, for tl.ey have been furnished by experts on the art of colour V.ICfORIA HOUSE, -~· GBORGE'S TBR.. PBRTii combinations, who combine to blend every article into the / . one tasteful scheme. That ia the reason why Ahema are "Pamou• for Fumiahings. Let us quote you. Advice and Se..Yice Entirely Free AHERN'S LIMITED .. HA YNES &. CLEMEN~ GRAIN AND PRODUCB MBROIANTS 45 MARQUIS STREET, WEST PERTH I (AdJolabl9 a- ...... ~ Potatoes and· Onions our Spedalty. AI Blood and Bone. .Alr Clauea of Artificial Manu rea and Poultry Fooda Stocked. -- Give w a Trial. Box J 697, G.P.O., Perth. . Telepboae B -.291 THE EOUITY 227-229 MURRAY STREET, PERTH Makers of QUALITY C~OTH I NG * You look your Best when· "Equ~ty Dreued" THE SOUTH . BRITISH/ INSURANCE · COMPANY LIMITED Tranaacu all classes of FIRE, MARINE fi ACCIDENT INSURANCES at Loweat Current Ratea. · MANAGER·. FOR W:A. BRANCH* : P. C..-.( 'MUNRO 23 BARRACK STREET, PERTH \ . Praaiptiona Accurately DiapenMd 11t NO BXTRA coST The flow of milliol18 of feet of HARDIE'S "FIBBO. Write for LITE'• forl Yital war buildings haa now been . ROBEJtT W DALBY MeP~S. lltullrated diverte~ IQ the "Home Frohf' to provide homea look , let for thoUBanda of Australians who want Modem. 130-132 OXFORD STREET, . LEEDERVILLE FREE I ~tractive and Durable homes, urgendy, and at Telephone B 6224 ·for Real Service· · rr:wderate co&tl Specify HARDIE'S "FIBROLITE" FRESH STOCKS OF -BABY FOODS • for the exterior and interior · w.U. and ceiling& of your new home. · · JAMES HARDIE & COt. PTY. LTD. Office ond Works, ~ I V E R V A L E, W : K. . J e NEilSC)N. Opticia~J ~ . ~ Stocked bv le~~i,g Storekeepers, Hardware ond fimber Merehanh Cllf.l!' 'DID 1101) 1~ PLAZA ARCACE, PERTH· ·M AD E I N · > W E S T E R N A U S T R. A L1 A (near liar Street Ell~) C. S. A, DANNEll, P.S.M.C. (London), W.A.O.A., OPTOM!TRIST - *WHY NOT THJ RETURHJD SOLDIER PRINTERS? ~ Tel~phone B 5344 IMP ER 1 A L P'R I N I N. G C I) Y. LTD . .\~ 1.• ' 1 "a~bbed" him ~n the slight~t evidence of failure, won the frienC:I• Bro~erhood lit A~nis •hip and loy~~ of ~e grumpy old Pru88ian, Blucher. One of By C. R. COL.liNS the most th~g stones of wa~ is that of the way the old Field Marshal harn~d as w~ll as · hurne~ his men along muddy Belgian (This is the Happy Warrior,· this is he . · roads, often dismounbng and helpmg with his own hands -to shove ,. Whom every man in arms should wish ta be.) gun whe"els through the mire, so that his troops could arrive iir time for. the flank atta~ which com~leted Napoleon·s ruin. · In 1918, -Wordsworth. Ha~g loy~y and _Without complaint accepted a subordinate position to Poch, JUSt as m the more recent war, Montgomery gave &imilar yet to appreciate, with any approach to accuracy, It ~ ~ly loyalty. to Eiaen~ower in two theatres of war. • of Field Manhal Lord Montgomery's recent visit the SJg~ficance wa , much ~as been h eard of what it is b·ecoming outcome of. the visit is s~ b·eing woven by the Si?ce the , to Moscow.. The fashionable to all Monty s army. No one can quarrel with the looms of T~e . The ear~~r Press reports conveyed little beyond great commander, aHh,ough it is not made by one compliment thus paid to a the suggestion that the VLSit was a friendly gesture as a new developm.ent. It is of the altog~ther correct to speak of it great Ar,n.y to' ~other, at a time when t~e brotherhood and even the new- ~ the sen.s~ that it s~eks t~ adapt training to new, battlene!d was lik~y to be dissolved by. the suspicions of that it is a return to even allowing for potent!a.!• conditions. It 1s old m the sense council table. There can be no doubt, either, whom the First A.I.P. had more in commander the spmt of the lronsides, with th~ exuberance. ?f. Press reports, that the great British force in British hi_ftory. Only a respect of hie Russian bosta. common than with _any other aoon v:-on ~·e ·liking as well aa the mfuse the element of, human undentandin'g in good stead. ~e ~ontgomery could. ~onty .s ~bility to tell a go.od st~ry stood ~m must also have its basis in discipline and the, Ru881an appreCiates a story for ita own mto a system, whtch h1a Asiatic ne_Jghbours, efficiency. Only a man capable of deep human sympathies him· for m·erriment is one of the more amiable sake, while a capacity could be the proponent of such· a system. Assuming the Rus• character, eve!! th.ough it is frequently: over• s~lf t~ta of the ~us:' ian &laD Army leaders are aware of what is going on in Brltain. la~~ by a .we.~ght of sadness a~mysbcism. There is something to Russia, and there are no groun?s for. ~soming th~t they are not-Money sawfymg m ~he tho~ght that M9hty enjoyed his viait desire to as in must ~ave aroused their cunos1ty and stimulated their and the RU881ans enjoyed Monty. In the affairs of nations leaders must have welcomed touch is the most 'potent _m·eet h1m personally, just as the British ordinary business relations, the personal the home life of the men the 'various meetings the opportunity of seeing something of of all. There was direct evidence of this in._ _the back acro68 the war. It was who e.ndured so -much b~fore they threw Nazis betwe·en Churcliill, Roosevelt and Stalin during ent. . There is no suggestion of any when that triangle of penonal the _Width of_ .a sub•contm· not the best thing for the world th·ere has been between Britain and often in the world's chequered pooling of military secrets, as friendship was broken by Fate. Too ven to sharing secrets, whether danger been broken by the U.S.A. The Russian is not gi history have alliances born of a common But the gesture of a personal call by one has been removed. The lack of under• for peace_ or for ~a r. bickerings after the danger the Army of another is a new link in a the W eatem Allies was developing great Allied leader on standing between RU88ia and :Jt a time when a strengthening of Montgomery went to Moscow. chain of friendship, placed along dangerous linea when I:.ord that chain was sorely needed. · Just before tl;le visit, and possibly to pave the way for it, there '· were manifestations of a greater tractability on .either side. Ad· mittedly the hope that the visit may make that greater mutual ANZAC CLUB MEMBERSHIP undentanding permanent ia wishful thinking, but wishful thinking All financial members of the League are members of the An~ac ia not necessarily a symptom of complacency. Without it, there Club in Perth. This was made possible by a special Act of Parlia· could be no plam for the future, and th-e future itself would be a ment, which was ·enacted · shortly before the recent war. As with drab infinity utterly barren of achievement. all other clubs, only members,can' be admitted and a commission• Writere and students of history are prone to speculate on what aire ·is placed at the entrance _to ensure that. the law is observ'ed. the results would have been had some great man acted differently To gain entry to the club, it is not sufficient to be a member; proof at a given moment, or had - some great ~vent occurred earlier or must be shown, and unless a badge vlith the correct financial crown 1 !rter, or not at all, 11 is. worn, or a membership card produced, entry cannot be per• , \ Could England, for ins~ce, have withetood the Spanish--"Armada m1tted. Those who do not comply with the rules should not had not the Atlantic storms com·e to the rescue? Or .what would quarrel with the commissionaire for refusing them admi88ion. Th·e have been the result at Waterloo had t'he Prussian& entirely failed · commissionaire is only .tloing the job he is paid to do. Wellington, as they very nearly did? r:Sdch speculations are alw;ys Members should also bear in mind that the institution is a club inconclusive, no matter how intere\!ti.ng th·ey may be; but one a.nd ~ot a. ~nteen. Mem!>ership of ~ club I {!!Plies that the ~older im• cannot help. believing tha,t the history of Anglo•Russian relations of_ th1s pnvdege has a due appreCiation of what the privilege he would have bad a _different arid Ja.L pleaaanter course had Lord phes. No act of his should bring the club into di~repute. Th Kitchener not gone down wittl"H.MS. Hampshire in 1916. have' been instances,. recently, of ~embers tossing their badges out KitcheMr, as ·everyone will remember, was on hia way to RU88ia of WIDdows, to be 'picked up_ abd Illegally _worn by others wh'o are at · ~ time. The purpose of hia ill-fated miS&ion was secret. It is generally supposed that he was go1ng to reorganise the RU88ian Army, whose administration had gone to :Pi~cea under the in• efiident regime of the Tsar. That may or may not be true, but· this, at least, ia certain. The Russians of that era had a deep ad· lt Makes Was-.day miration ·for Kitchener. -.His great and successful career as a ) soldier inspired them. The or_&anieing genju. he displayed in I EASIIR creating a new army almost overnight appealed to ~eir imagination. ' ~- ' It is no exaggeration to say that Kitchener was the one man of W estem Europe whom the Russians trusted ·above all othen . and who could have held East and West together at such a critical time. As with Kitchener, the name of Montgomery has appealed to Russian soldiers of all r.lnka. It is rtot the success of a batde lead~ so much as tlie penonal qualities that contribute to· that auc&as which arouse the hero-worship that ii'Jatent in the most cynical of men. Like his great predecea~on, tiOtably Wellington ~d Haig, Montgomery is a man who can combine -genius with humility, greatness with simpliciey, and imbue auch qualities with that loyalty without which the 'ie&t are ,unavailing. Th·e history of w~ ia .full of examples of i~mate friendehips b"etvleen com• mandera. Marlborough and Prince 'Eugene were strong 'personal friends, as vrell as colleag"ues who won the Battle of Blenheim. Wel· lington, always .loyal to 11\~ official euperiors,- who would have Page 1,5- T H E L I S TEN I G N .,P, 0 S T \. not ex-servicemen, but who, by suclt illicit means, gain entrance technicians·. Three-seater, British•made ~us~e~ Au~oc~ats are the _to the club under false pretences. This sort of conduct on the part aircraft chosen by the Man_chester ·engmeenng fir_m a~d !heae of a member is a very cheap and nasty y.ray of making a gqod will be the first private busmess planes to be statloDed on the fellow of himself. In such a case,. the member lets the l-eague city's new £1,000,000 airport_· at Ringway. Some North of Eng• down, lets 'the club down, anQ lets h1mself down, because he shows Jand export wmpanies are alre~dy ope ratm~ the1r c;>Wn planes ~or . clearly that he is incapab_le of appreciating his own privilege and staff personnel and one Li_verpool fa s t•mo~mg busmes_s, ~x.~c~ttve the rights· of others. has his own ' Spitfire: Th_1s dcydopment IS, of course, a nat1!ral outcome of the war 111 wh1ch, for s1x years, thousands of Engbsh• men served in the R.A.F., flying the world's most advanced types VA~IA of aircraft and keeping abreast o~ ·the latesfcachieveme~ts i~ a~iation - e Congress Delegate· writes: "Why all th·e fuss about the increase research What is remarkable IS the spe d With wh1ch tt IS pro• ii1 subscriptiop t.o 12/6?" I was present when the Annual Con• gressing: It is only a year sin~e the ai_ craft industry in Brit~in gress decided by at least a 20 to 1 majqrity to make the incre!J.se was able to divert even part of Jts attentiOn from the constructiOn and surely Congress is the ruling body. If the State Executive of war machines. Yet within these twelve months !t _has design·ed . did not carry out the decisions of Congress-there would be 'a hell a wide raoge of new aircr~f.t,_ from l~uge ocean a1rlmers to two• of a roVJ, and I would be in the. thick of it. Anyone knows that seater taxis, meeting many c1v1han reqmrements. the 10/· of 192_0 is only wqrth about 6/· today and there was no e London airport is to have a new sysfem of lighting which is suggestion of extravagance or mismanagement at Congress when a British invention. Pilots will be guided to the runway by power• the Annual Report and Balance. Sheet' was being. discussed. Many ful lights which ' '-'ill a~1tomatically sho'": t~em the correct angle· blokes who object to the extra 2!d. per month would spend the of flight. The air traffic control officer w11l be able t~ op~rate whole 2/6 in one shout at the local pub without a second thought. 2 000 lights on the airfield from the control desk by a umt control What we need today in the League is more loyalty and.. and the n~ethod. Mr. T. F. Bird, who. is Director of Airfields for Britain's •sporting spirit of accepting the umpire's aecision, without squ~al.ing . Ministry of Civil A\'iation,..- says: "This system is extremefy safe Of course, the added membership has brought more revenue to and night flyin g risks will be reduced considerably." Headquarters, but a perusal of the last balance sheet shows that the larger l'esponsibilit>· involves a proportionately additional ex· e ·Two of the wooden '~ail s of England are beyond repair and penditure. Anyhow, the extra 2/6 does not go to Anzac H ouse. '. have passed into the fhip·breakers' hands. One is the two·decked It is to be a subscription to the Le_ague's official publication. So ship of the line, H.M.S. Implacable. Laid down in 1797, this we will get Vll.lue for money. Let us be big·minded in this grand veteran was a unit of the French fleet at Trafalgar, then called the League and cut out the paltryness." Duguay·Trouin. She was ca'ptured in the battle, and re•named e The Sons of Soldiers' League Committe·e will be holding an Implacable. The other ship, H.M.S. Foudroyant (formerly H.M.S. · Athletic Meeting at the Leederville Oval on Saturday, March 1, Trincomalce) was built 20 years later. They were the oldest war· 1947. It will be open to all sons and daughters of returned ex· ~h ips afloat in Briti>h watcrf, as Nelson's flagship, H.MS. Victory, servicemen: is now preserved in dry dock. Implacable was condcm~ed in 190$, but was preserved through the good offices of. . King Edward VII. e The first annual meeting of the 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion In 1925, she was reconditioned at a cost .of £25,000, the money (A.I.F.) Ex-Members' Association. is to be held on Thursday, Feb· being provided by the Society lor Nautical Research. During ruary 6 next, in the 16th Battalion Drill Hall, Bazaar T errace, the recent war, both H i>els were used as training ships, but dry. Perth, commencing at 8 p.m. ' rot has gained such a great hold in their timbers tllat anything in . the nat4,re of repair \\'ork would be useless. MoC!ern. s~ence has e South Africa is to build scores of th6usands of prefabricated been engaged in the preservation of H.M.S. Victory. H er timbers houses modelled on fa·mous British "Arcon" design. The houses have been sprayed with D.D.T. to check the death watch beetfes arc intended for the nati\'e population for whom they will set a which play such havoc with wood. I new standard in hygienic and sanitary equi_pm·ent. · The Arcon hous·e is built round a s~el frame and hat' a living·roqm, two e . Anoth!:.Ywarship to he broken up is_ tlfe German cruiser, Der• bedrooms, a kitchen, a athroom and separate toilet. Special ffhnger, one of the sh 1ps scuttled by thetr crews after the surrender features include many fixe cupboards and a refrigerator. of the eerman Navy .in 1918. The Dertflinger '!~as salvaged from expert team can ·erect one of these houses in 107 man•hours. Tn Scapa Flow and taken to the Clyde in a 42,000-ton floating dock, houses to be built in South Africa will be a modified versio of towed by eight t~gs. The vessel was still upside-down. the Arcon'. A)l the civil engineering work, distribution of' mat rials 11nd the building ~ill be organised and managed by U:K engineer- . ~ During Dec~mber, Eastern States papers featured the fl ight of ing and other industrial concerns. Building plant and m.l).ehi·nery SIX Dakota :urcraft from Central Luzon to Darwin v with will he. shipped from Britain. the famous war pilot, Cli~· e ("Killer") Caldwell in comm'and. ~ Five of the planes carried the bodies of five small American e A big expansion in the Nuffield Organisation has been an· reconnaissance pl a~ c s as ·freight. The sixth . carried wings and nounced by Sir Miles Thomas,, the Vice-Chairman. He states that spare parts of the h ~c smal!cr planes. The Clevcn planes were pur· the organisatioJ -would be taking over a .£3,000,000 Ministry ~based from Amencan D1sposals at the Clark Field in Central of Aircraft factory in Durhal!J, . North·East Engtand, for the manu· Luzon .. T~~ purc.~ asers were ~eria\ Tra_nsport_ Pty. Ltd., o f Syd')ey, facture o( automobiles and power farming equipment. "A be· of wh~ch Killer CaldweV 1S manag1ng D1rector. All the in· ginning will be made with the .manufacture of the Nuffield univer· fo~mat1on he would giv\ to intervi_ewers 'wasy?We are going to do sal agricultural tractor. Its design is completed and prototypes are pnvate contract work. pe>hap' 111 Western Australin or West already helping some farmers get in their harvest;. Their- tests and Africa." · ~ ' fi·eld trials are showing excellent promise," he said. The factory is expec~ employ between 3-,000 and 4,000 people. The • The action qf the New South Wales Branch in connection with s-election of this location in Durham, which is a corrsiderable dis· a recent. pcrs~cut i on of a Tobruk survivor illustrates how well the tance from the main Nufficld works in Central England, is also in R.S.L. 1 ~ hvmg up to its reputation of bein'g th·e· watchdog of accordance withMVernmcnt policy of §mooth. and wide distribu· the scr_vlccman. The case concerned a returned ·man who . had tion of industrful activities in 1,J .K. as against the concentratio~ of been giVen a gaol sentence _for the petty theft c{f a garden hose. individual industri~s in a r~anvely small number of sp·ec1fied q::he New. South Wales .~}ranch promptly obtained --reports from localities. ~- psychlatnsts, who stilted there were no Repatriation facilities / ava1l ~b le . for early treatment, supervision, hospital carC', and social ~ A {irm of industrial s-ngineers in Manchester _announces that re·ad_Justmcnt of neurotics or psychotics. The psychiatrists em• it is replacing many of its cars by a fleet of small _aircra'(t. Air phas1se th~ need !n all States for proper treatment of these cases. travel will ·enable its team of servicing engineers to cope v?jth the The R.S.L._ 1s urgmg the provision of special hospitals, m addition 5,000 calls it receives yearly. 'This· is only one of a number of to worry-climes, where servicemen. ca_n go to discuss their problems. such conversions to air transport by business houses in·- Britain in the last few months. Today ma~y firms are obtaining--staff aircraft - e Tl~e wife of a s·cnior officer o~th Allied Cortrol Commission for the use of th'eir executives, sa_lesmen, Inspectors and travelling .., has g1ven reas,ons. why ~h~ wives. of ritish Army men in Germany T H E ·L I S T N I t'i G P 0 S T - Page 16 / ' . ~ ~ are' ti'icklil~g back to ·Britain. "They became bored and missed the In these days, apparently, mediocrity is preferred to courage ana gossip, tea <~;nd bridge parties of their home towns in England. ability. Membershi'p of the Labour Party never implied that Food· shortages made it difficult for them one to entertain thcir' friends." sbould either condone or approve ,of administrative acts, Other causes of complaint were the however poor accommodation, and the stupid or opposed to public interest they may be. lack of shopping facil ities. Some I am of the are going back because they opinion that the vast majority of returned soldiers would be dis• cannot bear to see the Germans suffer. The control officer said: appointed if a man with such "My expe qualifications as the Preference Act rience is that wives who spent the war years• in the contemplated were not appointed country districts to the head position in Australia." of England least affected by the war were the Now, we suppose the usual bitterest against the Germans." combination of the clue·Jess will :- accuse Mr. Sheahan of "anti•working·class bias," and conspire to have him liquiqated, or whatever it is that such peop During the big le would do e gales which struck the North·West last month, in such cases, if they had the 'power. Perth papers reported 'that the "cock·eyed bob," which swept / neighbouring towns, by•passed Mcn~ies . Perhaps the weather con· trol people thought the people at Menzies would prefer a "pig• iron bob." THE MOUNTJOY APPOINTMENT • At the meeting of the State Executive on January 15, delegates NEXT GOVERNOR-GENERAL strongly criticised the appointment of D. A. M.Qunt)oy, form,er M.H.R. for Swan, to the Council for Scientific and Indu A statell:lent well strial .Re· in line with our own views on preference, search. Resentment was also expressed at the cavalier attitude e~pecially in appo intments to more important positions, was _m ade assumed by the Minister for Postwar Reconstruction (Mr. Dedman) this month by Mr. W. F. Shcahan, Labour member for Yass, in toward~ former rcpr Sheep Feeding Egg Production ~ ·Sim_plified J \ 11· • • . _by using · ID d~ 1:\ LAYING CUBES ~~ ·UIJI!" ' PE~lETS PROVIDE SCIENTIFICALLY BASED RATIONCi MORE EGGS LESS LABOUR* LESS WASTE MANUFACT0RED IN TWO GRADES MAINTENANCE CUBES Yo4r guarantee for. healthy sheep ond normal clips, even ) under adverse conditions of drought. / * The ideol supplement for Summer feeding when feed is Feed Your scarce and of poor quality. Way BREEDER CUBES Poultry the ENSURES MORE and better lambs- ideo! for: ( I ) Stud ond Flock Rams. ( 2) ':flushing" Ewes prior to mating. - ~he ,Modern Way ! ( ( 3) Feeding Ewes before and oftc r · l o~bing. · Available at all Produce Mercli\,nts, Co-operative Stores; and Age.nts ond Branches of th~ Manufacturers: I Westrali~ .n Farffiers Co-oper~tive, Limited l 5~9_ . Wellington Street, Perth Page J,7 H--:- T E L I S T E N I N G "'p 0 S T / --- wealth, but .also he ia responsible to the people of the· Common· wealth, even if it ia a long way to the next election. It ia diSi· Ex-Service Political Candida_tes ~t to believe the part of hia ssatement that conaideration was Returned Servicemen's .L:eague is given to the preference provisions of the Re·establiahment Act ~he ~on •parti~ p()litically, but its policy of preference extends ·when malc.ing tb~ appointment. Further, the Miniater maintained to ail JObs, app?mtmenta tyd · a diacreet silence on the League's request for the reasons (or Mr. elections, including local governing bodies and_ par~a~enta. e Mountjoy's selection. ur e our members to pull their weight in public act1Vltles and We sh~uld support them when.... they comply with our ~e~uest. ~aually' During the discussion at the State Executive meeting, it . waa we have ex•aer~'cemen candidat'es allied to all po~acal partt.es a~ mentiontd that no matter in recent years had caused so much we would like see a much stronger representabon of our mem · feeling among sub·brand!es. It waa recalled that, in 1928, the bers in all par 'amenta. It would b'e to the gen~q.l good of the Bruce•Page Government made four appointments of a like character, country. but the R ..S .L. -had aroused publir. opinion to 'such an extent that all bu( one of the appointments were cancelled, and returned men were a-ppoinred to· the vacancies. It was· suggested that appoint· menta like the Mountjoy appointment might not come under d)e provisions o f t be Act, and the League should fight to bring them MR. LES C. NIMMO on to the ! arne footing as appointments to which the preference Mr. 1.:es Nimm o, who is the endorsed Liberal ca~didate 'for l'd~. provisions do apply. After a long discussion the Executive de· Hawthorn served in the Navy cided to ask ·the Federal Executive in World War I. He cam·e to thia to express ·res'entment to the ' State from Tasmania 17 years ago. where he was Commonwealth Government at the reply made ,by Mr. Dedman to R prominent i!l roWing circles~ holding the I!C~lli~~ .S.L. representations on th~tter; to insist the preference to championships .of Tasmama ex•servicemen in all such appoin enta be observed; for a num~er ~ to demand years also winning that Mr. Mountjoy's appointmen be cancelled, and that ap-plica· the ~en!ey Sculls il?- Vtcton~ in l921. Mr. Nimmo is well·known 10 tions from ex-servicemen be called for the position. R.S.L. _ circes, being the Pruident of the West Leeder• ville•Wembley•Ploreat Park Sub-Branch, also president of the Leederville•Wembley•Mt. Haw• thorn sub·section of th·e ;Ex-Navy Men'e Asspciat:ion. He is a prominent member of the RECONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN Perth Legacy Club and, during World War 11, Behind the ever•incr·easing volume of goods now being made in • was a member of the State War Loan. Com• Britain is the story of a great switch·over of jobs. By June last, mittee and.· served throughout in the V.D.C. 3,000,000 .more workers ·were engaged on the manufacture for ex• L. C. NIMMO Mr. Nimmo is a keen public citi~en who has the port and for home consumption than in the previous June. The background and the ability to make a successful legislator. total figu~e. approximately six millions, waa, in fact, seven per cent. higher than in 1939. The whole of this i!lcrease is on the export side, for the figure for home manufa~res is still below the 1939 total. Mlt. · GEO~GE This switch from war to peace production is _probably the ~~eat· H. YATES est in history, for it is far larger than the incre~e of_~re ·e millions Georte Yates, . who is a candidate .Tor the Canning aeat. wu suggests. During the past 12 months over_ s1x mtllions of men born in Perth 38 years ago, and h,- packed much public aervice and women in Britaip have been transferre,d e1ther from the Forces, into his life. He was ~ducated at {>r from war the W'eat Leederville State industiies, ta peacetime work. Simultaneously, there School and the Perth Technical College, and wa &as been a steady movement s a motor aalea• out of industry of about"''iie•and·a· man for man1 years in Perth and Kalgoorlie. He was keenly in third million wartime workers giving u-p their j{)bs. - These were . terested in the Militia, being C.Q.M.S. in the mostly women, with sgme men a~ove ~ reti~ng age. It ia. pr~b· · able indeed that with many factoriu--r~adaphng and re•eqwppttlg 28th Battalion in 1937.~e'ding to take up a for peace tasks, the actual change·6.ver of jobs in Britain during military career. Mr. Ya es successfully puaed through the last y~ar has averaged not far short of a )million a month. Randwick Sm :Arms School -~ an ~n instructor. He waa stationed at Geraldton all this great. industrial migratio~wever, not more than .one 1n at 60 of the working population has been even temporarily un• the outbreak C?J the war· and, after many at• employed. · · tempts waa -aelected for the A.I.P., as R.Q~. S. to the 2128th Battalion. His war service in The success of Britain's reconstruction effort cannot yet be cludes seven months at Tob'tuk, the El .Alamein finally judged. It will be seen most clearly in two or three yean' campaign, Lae and Pinachaven. He was men• time when conditio~ of normality are restolled, but the ·degree tioned in despatches for. services rendered in of stability which has been maintained during the past ~elve New Guinea. Mr, Yates rose to the rank of months of transition is impressive. Some of ~he facta ¥dden Captain. He was appointed manager of R.S.L. in the July statistics mak:e up ~ _story as romantic as any 111 the \ ./'!_louse at its opening in July last. • long histol1' of intern~tional t~ad1!lg . A glance at ~~ mQtor car ' _ George Yates ia President of the Victoria Parlt 1iguna, for inatance, ahowa tliat m June, 19·45', Bntam pr_oduc:ed G. H. YATBS Sub·Brailch and a member of South Perth only 120 private cars. In Jun e a ye~r la~r, over_ 20,000 ~e Sub·Branch, and is also an active member of made. The British small car is enteflllg 1ts own/ 111 the u:-port the South Perth Parents and Citiz·ena' Association. . market. In June of this year, 10,41 S' ten. ~d twelve ~ ·P· can and A fluent, concise .apeaker, and a flair for hard work should auve 7,124 eight h.p. cars left the assembly l.inu. him well in his electionee'ring ~paign. · .,-- / .I/ The eorrow of tboee darkened houra la aoftened bt a Fl~l ~ute . D--o D Is -J 5-altS\florist · -- Corner '799 BEAUFORT STREET &"FIFTH AVENUE \ 46 lAY VIEW TEiju\CE, CLARIMONT MT, LAWLBY ' SPECIALISE IN 'WREATHS· - Groceries, Handy ·Foods, Fruit and Vegetables PHOND: ~ 'ms; 1lEIIIDEifCE Jl 4071 AK FOR MRS. RICHARDSi:>N AND YOU wn.L 'DE PLEASED WITH · . Cakes and Yeast Goods. · ' ALL YOUR tLORAL REQUISITES OrdJra deliver6d promptly. ~h_one U 1550. /- J ·, THE '-.______, NL I S T E ~N G P 0 S T - Page 18 ' . MR. G. ·p, WILD 'subjecte.d include b~ng froun, having stea-m pumped into them 'E.x·aervicemen will be interested to know that Mr. G. P. ·(jerry) and bemg exposed to an 80 m.p.h. gale, 'Which was artifidaUy WilCI has ~en end.orsed as the Liberal candidate for the Swan created for the occasion by the exhaust of a Beaufighter aircraft. ·dimict in the forthroming State election. Many of them are at present being constructed from aluminium Mr.·Wild enlisted in Kalgoorlie on Novemb·er 11 1939 as a taken from scrapped bombers, and the British Government haa an private With the 2/llt~ Battalion. On the an'ival oE 'th·e B;ttalion order for 54,000 to be completed by next August. When thatV m the Eastern . States for training; he was contract has been COJl1pleted, it is intended to make a beginning sent to an O.C.T .U. and was commissioned with alumini1Jm school buildings for the additional pupils who will on March; 1, 1940. He · serv.ed with the h~e to be accommodated through th·e raising of th.e school•leaving battalion in the first desert campaign, Greece, a . The aluminium dwelling is usually produced with two bed• and Ctete and was one of the few who were r oq~a, ~ living•room, a kitcht:n arj.cl a bath~oom! but th~~e ar~ evacuated per submarine from Crete two and types wtth three or four bedrooms. The destgn JS attract.tve and • a half months after the island had been sur- the hoWies are assembled in the factories ·in four units, which are rendered. . bolted together on prepared foundations on the site. Warer, electri• · On ~ return from Crete in August, 1941, city, drainage and other services are speedily linked 1lp and the Mr. Wild was appoint.ed Brigade Transport d'll)'elling can be occupied immediately. The floors, doors and skirt Officer for the 19th Brigade and returned to ing boards are of timber, and the walJg. are lint d with plaster•hoard . AWitralia as such in May, ·1.942. Prior to The kitchen has a ·refrigerator and the fire in · the living•room the departure . of the 2/l_lth Battalion up q rculates hot air, on a forced draught system, throughout the north, he was appointed Staff Captain, "A" house. The British . .aluminium· prefabricated house is built to }leadquarters,- 3rd Alllit. Corps, under Lieut.· last ten years, but experts estimate that it could last, even · in the ~ General Gordon Bennett and he was latE;f·pro• English climate, for at feast fifty. · G. P. WilD I moted to the .rank of Major and appointed . · Camp Commandant of the Headquarters. In Ja.I)~ry 1944, Mr. ·Wild was appointed Camp Commandant, DONATIONS AND INCOME TAX Headquarters, 1 Aust. Co'rps, at Finschaven. He continued to serve with this headquarters on t heir return to: the Atherton Table The Federal Executive conthlucs to receive requests from sub· lands and later at Morotai, N.E.I., until his discharge under the .branches for action to be taken with the Federal Government to release of long•service personnel scheme, on December 12; 1945. ensure ·that contributions to memo~ial halls be deductible from Mr. Wild was awarded the M.B.E. for service in the first desert income for taxation purposes. This vexed question has been campaign IUld was mentioned in despatches for service in Crete. raisee repeatedly in the past three years, but the Prime Minister Mr. Wild should be well and favoura~ly known to a large num• (Mr. Chifley), asting on advice from the Taxation Commissioner, her of Diggers of both the First and Second A.I.F., and this declares that the Governm·en~ has na power to grant such a jourqal will join with them in wishing him every success in the concession. Mr. Chifley, while expressing sympathy with the forthooming campaign. Federal · Executive's frequent representations, points out that be· cause memorial halls are for the use of only one section of -ch·e community-R.S.L. members in the majority of cases are rigidly MR. JIM·COLLINS opposed to granting membership to non-soldiers-the Act will not Jim Collina is a candidate for the East Perth s·eat at the forth- · permit subscrip.ions becoming tax free. The matter is one of the coming ~ections. l{e is a Digger of World War I, having .en• utmost importance to all sub-branches in view of the numerous listed in Kalgoorlie in April 1915. He joined the 16th Battalion builqing programmes aml{fged, and Federal Executive will shortly and wu later transferred to the transport section of the A.A.S.C. re-open t~e ~ues~on w1h .M~. Chifley. . He drqve traniporta for two years in France and Flanders. Jim Some stgruficance-and 1~ JS hoped a hmt that the Gov.ernment . I( A says it was: "Through rain, mud and shell may relent-can be at.a<;lled to a question asked in the House of holes, . being blown uP, but always getting Representatives shortly before Parliament dissolved last August:- to ~mydestination and· damn thankf}Jl to be dis• M~. WHite (Lib., Balaclava) asked Mr. ChiAey:- charge in 1919." To continue Jim's own The Caulfield Central. Branch of the Returned Sailors, ato . The return to civil life was almost a Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League . of Australia hu ·trag dy. The better world ~eemed to have worsened. We seemed to have won th'e war launthed an appeal for £20,000 for the purpose of building aacf,..Jost th·e peace, the same· as now. I wanted a memo'rial hall. Th·e project wa~ approved by the Patriotic success. I was prepared' to work for it. I Council of Victdria. The branch 'has now learned that sub' believed we had earned the goodwill of the scriptions will not be 9~ductible from income for taxation civil population, but we seemed to be the lambs. purposes. · As most me~or9Is are not taxable, and _those All I wanted from life had to come from my . likely to be provided to commemorate sacrifices in th·e last war own ideas. So, I had to .Ct· out to develop the will be of a utilitarian character-for example, memorial lia1ls and hospitals--will the Treasurer examine :he proposition t~t . . personality of Jim Collins. · · JIM COLUNS It started with hard work and thrift, al)d de- contributions to memorial halls shall be free from tax? . · · yeloped into enthusiasm, concentration, con• L Mr. Chifley: I shall have a look at the ·proposal. Corn· · tideocc. I learnt how to. douqle my pay ·envelope and ho*. to. make mittees which launch appeals., for memorials would be well capital; hdW to inqeat that' capital; how to carry out a £1,000 con· advised first to discuss the matter with the taxation autlioritie~. tract with profit and satisfaction. In a1t, I learnt ~e price of sue• Mr. White: I.n this instance, the Ta~ation Department wu cC. without a trade or outaide help a~d, believe me,. imagination, aP.proached some months ago, but a reply from ·it has only work ,and thrift, coupled with enthusiasm and concentration, work just been received. · wonders." ·"- · Mr. Cbifley: Before embarking on the p~oject, the corn• , Jim Collins is a cheery chap with plenty of C!).mmon sense, woo mitte·e should· be clear as to whether c"'iltributions will ~ has made a success of life and _his philosophy and ability would subjeh to t}le income- tax concessioQs. Frequently, . appeala greatly add to our Parlianrent. ~ are laum1ied. first !Uld the complaint is subsequently made that the tax concession is not granted to the contributon. the . H~SES FROM BOMBERS · reque?t is then made fo~ an extension of the prin~ple. I shall · . examme the matter rataed by the honoural.le member, and Wartime shadow riea in Britain haye been converted to let him have an answer later. ·~; }noduce pre•fabrica d aluminium dwellings. This. is one of S f . M Ch,'fl· h . M Wh. d . the latest c;.pntributions. to the drive 'directed at solving Britain's 0 ar r. 1 ey .as not. gtve~ r. . Jte_ a etall~d answer, · h---.. Exh .:.. hav:e applied to · but, undoubtedly, he will dunng this Parliamentary sess10n. , great h ousmg...-a ortage. aus..... _ e t~·ts."" h~~n...... , . . these new &tyle dwellings, wliich are now declared to be asL However, 1t should be noticed that. the Pnme Miruster did not durabl~ 'as brick. T.he all~ther trials to wh~ch .th·ey '"bave been , reject the request as he had done in the past ·when uked aimilar -.Page19-T'H1: · LISTENING POST . -· · . . \__ . / - \ ,). ( questions and, at the earliest opportunity, the Federal Executive will ascertain whether there has been a .J!ry condi~ions good Aostralians Complete Stocks: Pharmac101.1Ucal and Surg!cal requisiles, are trymg to stabilise. Another mlltter, which the Leagu·e should Cosmetics, etc. take up very vigOroualy, -it tbe ....:way Italian prisoners of war' have Co.r. BULWER AND Fl TZGERALD STS., NOBTH · PERTH beea allowed to e.cape at their own aweee will. - At the latett re· PHONE B 8819 PM11, no !-Cf: than 2S are ttffi at !arae, and it woutd be fnt'eretting / Jl'ege 2• - _THE LI STENI NG P 0 S T / . "---...... \. march every March 3rd, in Sydney, -and I have yet to hear of any Veterans? R .S.L. •ending the Old Bo1.1 a telegram wiahing them ,,ood. health By H. S. DAY Few of our younger comrades know of these older !iutona and if we tell At th~ S.outh African Veteraps' reunions, VISiting kindred do~'t them before we leave, they hav~ not . mu~ ~ce of hearing about them, aaaod~tion refer to us as the .Senior Veterans. For W .A., this is and I am sure they will appreaate such items as this in correct; but we • are Australians in all · R.S.L. matters an OveriHOTELCESP~ADE . / MARINE TERRACE, FREMANTLE Excellent Cuisine at --Reasonable Tariff PREMIER · BUTCHERS ~ * Telephone L 1745 W. K. DOUST' 42 ADELAIDl STREET, FREMANl'LE T.elephone L 135G G M WI.LEY M.P.S. PHARMACEl..fnOO CHEMIST \ 28 Adelaide St., Fremantle. Phone L 1934 \ NELSoN & MANNING Prucriptione Accurately and Carefully Dispensed. All Optometriah - Atwell Arcade, Fremantle · Leadin& branda of Toilet Requisites. RefrectioUt: MAKB USB OP OUR FRBB DELIVERY SBRVICB RUSSELL W. ~ING, W .A.O..A. (Dip.) Telephone L-2500 ·for your .appo,intment I 2 CITY BAKERY \ TROOPS! .When in FREMANTLE call at the / A. and-F. PI~ . 28 SOUTH TERRAC FREMANTLE , Newc_astle Club Hotel Don't .at&rt· mo&nin& over the z.o in&. You can still try MARKET STREET Pitman'a Bak~ by callin& at 28 South Terrace for your A. A.~ PROPRJBTOR •uppliea. Vienna Bread a Speaality. Telepbooe L ll88 (late 8th Light Horae and Australian Plyin& Corps) . .,.- . - ~0NBL2428 · {___ T ,~ E Ll S TEN IN G p 0 S T- Pege l2 _, . deputati~~- . There if-a gn)win1 belief that the whole War S~~ce the Regional Committee, _and only !'ecently ·a combined meeting Settlement. S_chem·e. u b~ng handicapped through dual control by ·of the. committe~ in the building trades group was held and the ~tate and. · CQ.mmonwcalth Goveinment8. This and other discussion ensued with the Housing and Building Commissioner difficul~ca, will be diseuaed: ·' (Mr. Wallwork) arid with· a ·representative of the Workers' Homes Bo~rd, with the. ~esult that the industrial committees will continually rev1ew the pO&Jtlon at each and subseq\lent . meetings. .R.. establishmerit Notes A letter was received· recently. from one organisation of em· (SuppHed ~ the ~ ~or, Miniatry ·of Pott-War ployers which expressed appreciation of t.he numbers that had - . . kedo~o-d) been trained in ~ particular industry and the type of trainin& that was being given. · ~ It will be ~f intercat' to members of ex-aeJ;Vice orga:rusations to --l--'- note that advtte haa now been received of the introduction of a / , furt~er category of eligibility in relation to the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme. The category eomes within the T.B. CATTLE professional group and reads aa follows: .. ~he Pirector of War Service Land SettleJ;Dent (Mr. Fyfe) haa · "Members who enlisted for war· service on or before their 25th adv1sed that the Under Secretary for Agriculture states that great Qirthday and are not·eltgible· under the o:her cat:egorica for training care haa been taken to ensure that cattle purchased for the Scheme i~ ce.~n prdfcasiona in which vacapciea m;ly exist from time to are ~ree from disease. All the cattle selected are young, with•the·ex· ;;.. tlme. . ... cepuon of a small number of coW& purchased from ·owners wlio have . J'his category, which has . been approved by Federal Cabinet, sold thefr properties to the Government, and for that reason alone will now enable applications . to be s11bmitted for full·tim·e training should be particularly free fro'm disease. · . · by those members of the Services who enlisted under the age of Tuberculin testing of these cows would not, under the circum· 2 5 and in such professions as may be dedar~ l)y th·e Central stances he warranted, but the Leagu·e could be assured that much Commi~ee, principall~ to overcome any shortag_ of trained per. caution will be exercised in connection with this matter. sonnel m the professions. The Central Comm1 ee, at a !'ecent meeting, resolved that the Nursing .profession should be' on~ TO CORRESPONDENTS approved under this category. It is, thel'efore, permissibte for any ex•service personnel who have completed six months'· war Anonymous (Fremantl~): .In making a defamatory st LET A QUAL!FIBD DIGGER SERVICE YOUR CAW Luxor Servi·ce Station '- 16 STIRLING ~IREET, PERTH. Jrut oYer Brtdge T. VIVIAN Plumber Ring for Servico Proprietor\ H. R. & B. W. MANN. Late A.LF. 143 ROKEBY ROAD, SUBIACO. CalL- Write or Phone. W 15311. 86620 Convenient Cnr Parking Area FOR BA D WATER PRESSURE - BROKEN PEDESTAL PANS CISTERN AND ROOF REPAJRS - SEWERAGE CONNECI'IONS Commonwealth Change your Luck .• Buy your next I,ott~ry Ticket from A. CO~E Employment H airdresser and Tobacconist · PLAZA ARCADE, PERTH Full partkulars available on- Tobacco Rationing for Service E:ot·Service Personnel. I \ * ~ EX-SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN AND EMPLOYERS! ~ Seek Advice concerning your E' pfoyment : ARTHUR E. DAVIES & cd. Requirements from your FUNERAL AND CREMATION DIRECTORS Telophono•: Porlh, B 9400; Claremonl F 21371 ~remcmUe, L U25 \ District Employment-Office PARTNERS: WALLACE A. ·H. CREElf & CEO. B. CO-:n:RILL BEST SERVICE AT LOWEST RATES.' -· - EsTABLISHED le88 , _District Offices* at Albany, Armadale, Bridgetown, Bun bury, Collie, Fremantle, Ge raldton, Kalgoorlie, Katanning, Merredin, FOR\ Tl:fAT REP AIR JOO - RING U 1177 FOR , Midland Junction, Moora, Narrogin, Northam and R. --H. O'BRIEN !~~~;.d CENTRAL EX-SERVICE MEN'S SECTION General Ren<;>vating Contractor 573 WELLINGTON ST., PERTH 19 AUGHTON' STREET, .BAYSWATER JT eleph6nes 861 57, 871 53 or 89263 r LOOK FOR THE SIGN ~ MODERN,PHARMACY .. . - / $ KEN .MEDD li ~t::ft~ 11 M.P.S., Ph. Ch. 203 WILLIAM STREET (OPPOSITE SYMONDS). PHONE 11 UH PR E S C .R I PT 0 N S- ~ 0 N i U LT AT t ' o .,N S P 0 S T-- Poge·l-4 \~ . -' .. . AUST~li ANS IN JAPAN ,· Local lads, .home on leave from Japan, were surprised and dis· L. McWHIN NE ·u..TE gusted at. wh~t . t~e anti.-British "Chicago Tribune" had to say about their disCipline. Th~ case against the Diggets was based QUALITY BUTCHER ~l :~·A·~· 'l. . ~t. • ·~.. .. on the unsupported s~y·so of · a Japaneses police inspector, but 56 Nicholson Road, Subiaco · ,.,._~ _.4_.. -:"· strong evidence in Iebuttal suggests. that the' Japanese police dislike Can supply yqu with the v ery primes! of Beef, Lamb, p'(,'rY."itc:. the Diggers, whq ..w.ill not .stand any nonsense from them and will· Ollee Tcuted; Never Wasted" Telephone W 1920 not play ball with them in the matt~r· of black market and other rackets. In . th.e light of this, the foU'Owing extracts from a letter dated November 3, . written by an Australian soldier now serving in Japan, ·.will prove interesting. He has. been there seven month~ and has been one of the lucky ones in the matter of traveUing · about and seeing things. Speaking of• the south of Donald J. C~pper & Son / Japan .. he says: "Once you ·get. past the atomic·bombed city. of Hiroshima, it is wonderful country. Very few bombs were dropped 1023-1027 HAY STREET, PERTH · gown that way, as most of the Jap factories were from Hiroshima * onwards to Tokio. Rice is grown as Yamaguchi and Bofu (two of the places visite'd). ' Yamaguchi· is also known widely for it• TELEPHON ES: B* 3232 and B 3772 wonderful shrines and temples.... Some of the temples are anything from six hundred ~o one thousat:~d years old. "The city of Hiroshima is b'eing re•built quickly, but it will take many yean to hide the scars of the atomic bomb.~When we got here last April, I went down there on the first I ve I got in Japan. I will n·ever forget the things I saw. Everyt ing was left, GROSSES OF 'GROSES H.-\TS Buy your HATS, just as when the ·bomb fell. Buses, cars, trams and rubble were SHIRTS AND MERCER~-: frofl) • . • lying about everywhere, ;tl)C the Jap s·ur\tivors were very bitter towards us, because the Americans had told them that Australian GRQSE 8ROS. aircra.f!: had done the atorn .bombing. On the outskirts of the 659 HAY STREET (Central) and city is the main hospital, and the things seen there are something 42 FORREST PLACE, l'ERTH awful. Telephone B 7901 Uniform Caps made to Order. "We are camped about two miles from the heart of Kure, in Jap Gent's Hats Cleaned and lJioc.ked, 2/ 6 (trimmjngs extra). Army barracks. They are rather good buildings, with heaters in every room,. so it does not seem as if we will freeze this winter. We- got here at the end of last winter. ·Snow was lying· about then. In some parts~of Japan, high up in the mountains, snow has begun to fall, ten days earlier than last . winter, but here the weather is wonderful. The days are nice and sunny and the nights arc cool. We have just finished a rather warm summer. July and COMMERCIAL ·UNION August were the hottest months and the mosquitoes have to be seen to be believed. . What ·made things worse was that most of ASSURANCE CO. ·l. TD. the main wate,r ·pipes had been hit by bombs, and th·e water lying about, everywhere helped the mosquitoes to breed. * · "I suppose you have read in th·e papers al1 the bad reports Head Office for Western Aust ra lia :1 about Kure. Half \of it is by no meios true--mostly paper talk -but' ! will say th~ things were bad at first. However, anyone ~ COMMERCIAL UNION BUI LDINGS, who came up here nad to be prepared for discomforts~ ~·ecause SAl NT. WE WlU. BE PL.t:AS£1> TO QUOTE YOU FOR YOUR FRESH AS TflE DAWN ... Fresh and Pasteurised Milk Decoratin9: Painting and . . Supp[ying Cottesloe, Claremont, Nedlands, Peppermint HARRY JENKINS E'i1.ablished* 28 Y uri~ G. W. B·IRKBECK . & CO. Phone f'·2601. C. H. SMITH BALFOUR ST., COTTESLOE. UNDERTAKERS · 28} NEWCASnE STREET, PERTH. Phone (Dar or Nlqht): B 8008. 175 ALBANY ROAD., VICTORIA PARX• . Phone: M ~346. Complete Funeral Serrice at pricaa withiD rcmqe of all ENTRUST YOUR SIGHT TO .. . SA INK· EN RICH SIGN COY. Cominerc1al Artists -AND 587 WELLINGTON STREET, PERTH · T elephone B 5095 · · SAINKEN Sole Proprietor: A. j . WELLS (.late 5~d Battalion) ·- _ The Qualified Opticians 1 OFFICIAL OPTICIAN:JITO ••.. e Perth Hospi:al (Social Service) e Perth Cl).ildren's H ospital "- • W.A. Friendly Societies . .,r.:-' SAINKEN & SAINKt..N ".PHOTOGRAPHS LAST FOREVER~ ' For Spectacle Satisfaction \ HAY ST. CENTRAL (next to Amlnssadors Theatre) * PERTH'S LEADING STUDIO FOR Members of the Fighting Forces ' -_The wise housewife asks for and Child Studies, Weddings, etc. ,I For Modern Portrafture and Reasonable Pri'ces call, write or telephone 88833 for WATSONJA_ an Appointment. ~-- LANGHAM $T,.UDIO ·LTD. / HA;MS:and BACO~ C E N T R A L A R c· A D E / 2 d oors (on right from Hpy Street Their fligh Quality N\.v~r Vari~s PER T .H ' .. . I ·y 8E • L I S T E N I N G P 0 S T - Page 26 <.,__._.,. • - \ ./ Vlaltora.-The S~e President welcomed Mr. G. L. Harvey, a reprepenta live of the B.E.S.L., from ladla, who Is on his wa y to JIELM'OlfT the conference in Afler b eing in recess for the latter Melbourne. Other VIsitors wore Mes3rs. B. ChambeHr s, portion of the war, the sub-b ranch a nd . Wilklns. has comple ted twe lve months of ranewod Exec aciivlly . Membership la now utive· Changes.- The tesignatlon of Mr. 0 . J. Wllliams, who is 186. . The sub-branch recently took port In the Belmont Dis leaving Perth, was tricts Kinder . a ccepted. His successor Is Mr. R. Stoddart, who was garten A ppeal. Baby Martin, the sub-branch's entrant, polled penny formally we lcomed to the mee ll n~ . Tho transfer of Mr. N. Ellloll votes to the va lue of £.101. This splendid a ch ievement Moora to De from was the result nmark os Country Vlce-Prooldenl, was eonflrmed. of the starling work of the women's auxiliary and members of A special meeting the sub of the Execut1ve was arranged for Wednesday bra nch. Despite the black-out, 65 members a ttended the res;ent meeting Janua ry 8, a t 7.30 p.m., in order to dlscuos the staff report being pro: a t which preparations for the Children's Christmas Treat, pqred by a . specia on December l Investigator r ecently appointed t o carry out the 2!. were finalised . A sub-branch deputation· wa ited on the Belmont task. Rbad Board concerning t · he a vailability of 1 the Belmont Hall for sub b ranch m eetings. Sati• factory results w er r~ War Service Homes.-'l'he report of the Wa r Service Homes Committee e po r led . , mentioned a number of cases dealt vtt:t h by he comm1ttee. A suggest ion submitted for d i scu~sion was thaf of providing fla ts of a tempora FRE~NTLE CITY nature as a m ry At' the lost monthly meeting, concern wa s expressed eans of overcoming the ac11te housing shorlago. After a which int about the bid long discussi erested parties a re king, w ith lhe a pparent support of a on, 1t was resolved to aok the comm1ttee for further in· section of t he Common formation and report. wealth G v ernmenl, lo encourage large numb9rs of Southern Europeans to enter Australia. This was conside red a rEIIro Trusteos.-The re port of tho Relief Fund Trustees 'ljaled tha t assis grade stop, which threa tens to b reak d own the very condition had been ta nce s wo ore given In 14 cases, involving an expenditure of £ l81 and that trying to stabilise-that Is, a good living standa rd for people of B ritish Christmas cheer had been d istribl!led to widows and children, as well stock. Membe rs consid ered that this is a phaso of immigratio as g n policy ifts to ex-service patients in all hospitals. which the League must p olice. The reunion on Docember 12 w as o great Llatonlng P success, the Statp Presitlent and representatives of othe r sub -b ranches oat.-A Ioporl wa;; submitted on beha lf of the Special Com being pr mittee appointed ·to inves osenl. Ted McDono ld's quarte tte supplied ha rmony of a very tigate the practicability of t he LeaCJuo publ!oh htqh ordor. George Gtlmor ing a journal of Its own. The matt e oounded the Calls, a nd Canon Collie!< r~ er was again r eferred for further in cited Bi nyon's Inspiring lines. vestiga tion ·by the commit le&, which i:; now making its report. The recom menda tion submitted wa s that the Exec utive cancel tho existing agree KATANNING ment with the Imperial Printing Company, which pro vides for six month's At the December meeting, Car! Dllworth deputised . for notice in w riting on either side. it was recommended that the notic secretory Peter comence e Stevonws , w ho as prevented from attending by n ewly-acquire from January I, 1947. _ momol d matrl As the Specia responsibilities. The meeting was addressed by Brigadier Arnold l Committee hod now completed th~~k for which it wa • Polls, who \'/as _.(' a ppointed, it was n lertalned before the meeting by · eome of his 2/16th n11cessary to appoint a further .coJnmltteG to carry out boy• at a d inn&r in the Katonn lhe rocommendatlona and confer with ing Hotel. Tho Brlgadlor, who ill prosl th<> propri11tor of the "Listening dllnl of the No. 4 Dis trict Committee, had Pool" to make necGssa ry atrongements and lnve• hgalions a few worda to aa y abolll concer)11ng tho th11 recent maetlng at Wogln. He Ikon gavo a moat int Introduction of ·on official organ, ow nod and controlled by tho lh 11 Kokoda ereallng talk oa The Sp Looguo. TrciU. ecial Committee appointed wo• a a follows: M~>s srs . Lo.slio, Hol combe, Hunt, l onnl o, Murray and Olden. RET11RNED "ARMY NURSES - Favorsham.-Favers!lom· Houae was officially opened At the a nnual meBIIng on December 5, the follow ing o Go by the Lleut. fficers were ve rnor (Sir lames Mltchell), on Sunday, December 15. There ore elActed: President, Miss Clifton; vice-president, M iss Asht•m a nd Miss six r esidents a t p resent in tho home. Folland; secretory, Mrs. Lungley; committee, Miss Davies, Miss England, Mrs. Grigg, Mrs. H a r Fina nce .-'Tho report of t rison, Mrs. Huggins and Sisters Burgess, Bl<*e, V/ il ho Finance Committee gave a comparative lioms and Skipworth; wa rden, olotemonl of r evenue with last yoar's hgu MIS)I Dovies. A f ete a t Ord St.. for the res, and urged that sub War Nurses' Memoria l Fund, brought in £ liS. branches be circularised w ith o v iew to moking. oll members flnancjol. Ra-Establish mont Committoo.-The report of the Re-Establishment Corn· OSBORNE PARK mitlee gave a p rogross report on ind1v':lual cases dealt w tth Mr. E. Felthom presided o ve r a well-attendeQ. meeting on Noyembe and diS The r 27. cussed recent f igures quoted in the Pr ~ s by t he Deputy Dtroctor of In secretary, Mr. N. johnson, reported on ail Interview with bus com dustrial Training panies about hire of buses for the picnic. This matter w a s l eft to the socia l c ommittee, and it was decided that t he picnic b e hold a t Coogee on a d a te to be arranged. Members are taking o keen interest In sports. It was decided to Invite the Mt. Yoklno sub-bra nch to a compatttion in the nsar future. SUB= B~ AN C H CARLISLE , ACTIVITIES Mr. L Gilsenan pre sided over o meeting of 45 on December 5 . Arrange ments were {inolised for the annua l social. This was held on Docember WEST LEEDERVILLE-WEMBLEY 21, when the la d les of Owi the auxiliary were guests. Dur)nb. g the lock-out ng to lighting difhcuitieB, the monthly , meeting on November 11, which interfered w ith the sports 194.6, was cancelled n ig ht, severa l melhbers v isited th~ , conseq\lontly ,(omm \ . Honour Bocnd displaying the names of· all the presidents and secretaries the gaiety of the Christmas Season. Sports night. are qrowing in of !he sub-branch from its formation. He also presented a CertU!cate of favour, more members and !belt women-folic attending each month, b ut Service to Mr. Alan Jobna for outstanding services to .the sub-branch over there la atill room for more folk to join In. Come alonq and enjoy yor a number' of years. A party, comprising the president, Mr. J, H. Ott1ng1 selvesl secretary, Ern Laycock; commltteemen, Smith, Brown, Hawks and Hucks; and past presidents, W. Dunn and P. Hemmlngway, attended the oUiclal NARBOGlN . opening of Faveraham House\ The December meeting was a r~l Christmas show. One w elcome visitor was Clayton Waugh, a Narrogin lad who hao been llvinq In SWANBOORNE Manjlmup since his discharge. Ho saw service In New GuJnea and the Our December meeting was well-attended and a gooti deal of busl Middle East. Narrogin was represented at the last meeting of the No. 4 neaa was put through. Most Interest at the mom•mt Is centred around the District Committee by Vlnce Dawson, Harry Hansen, Ray Renloul and Memorial Hall Pund, "for which purpose an amount of £.75 gross was "Blue" Spence. raised from the Christmas Goose Club. During the month, a very suc cessful combined sports night was held in conjunctlon with members DONGARRA of the women's aux!Uary and a very promising future seems assured The nthly meeting on December 14 was reasonably- w'ell-attende r which the M.V. Valdav!a has been support. The nexl· meeting will be the annual rr.eetlng, to be held. at engaged. The next meeting, whlch'will be the annual meeting, wlll be Mundaring, so roll up for a good night. held on February 13. Mr. Uron, ) WOM~N'S. AUXILIARIES )- STATE EXECUTIVE n., final meeting for 1946 was held on Decerilber 16. Mrs. Mcrtnlay presided, and Mrs. Stockmin (Stale Secretary) was· welcomed home from her trip to the Eas!ern States. The main business of the meeting was mapping out a programme for th" official visiting of hospitals and homes, with Christmas chee~r ex-service patients. The trustees re· parted on pli?t:hases of gifts, wnich were made possible by the generous donations from metropolitan and country ·auxiliaries. All hospitals and similar institutions in the metropolitan area were visited between December 19 and December 29. Comforts and Christmas gifts were dis· tributed. On December· 29, patients from Claremont were take n on a trip to the hills by ·Red Cross Transport. At Kalamunda, members of the Darling Range auxillary provided Chiistmas lunch and afternoon tea on behall .of country auxiliaries whose donations had been sent lo An This trusty old friend of the "Old Diggers" ia zac House. The thanks of all conce rned are due to the attendants, who are members of the GraylanCls sub-branch, who so generously gave up now being supplied to the . Commonwealth thel.r period off duty to accompany the patients. On December 10, Mrs. Vasey, founder of the War Widows' Craft Guild, with the two vice Military Forcea. presidents and secretary of the newly-formed West Australian Branch, were entertained to morning tea by the Executive at Anzac House. 0n December 5, Mrs.· McK.inlay, w ith the acting ·State Secretary, Mrs. Brown, • attended a luncheon at the Embassy, .as guests of the Totally and Per All Westralian Leather manently Incapacitated Men's Association. On Decemb'er 11, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Weeks· accompanied the State President to Kalamunda to attend the Christmas social of the Darling Range auxiliary. During the • month, Mrs. McK.inlay attended auxiliary meet.i gs a t Fremantle and Swanbourne. and the Christmas party of the S th Perth auxiliary on December 13. December ~~- marked the officio -openitlg of Faversham PEARSE BR.OS LTD House. During the month, t o new auxiliaries were formed. The Execu· " live has gone !nto recess u til January 20, but sick visiting of civilian ~ORTH FREMANTLE '· wards of the Royal Perth Hospital will be conll~ued each week as usub!_. - SCARBOROUGH . ~ I Scarborough auxlllafy invites wives of R.S.L. members to a ocial L afternoon In 11\e Church Hall, Hastings St., on Thursday,_ Februa 13, at 2.30 p.m. F.U.S.W. . ~ - \.· Mra. H., Dean presided over a large gathering of members and friends at the Christmas party last month. The Dean and Mrs, Moore were the guests of honour, and the president• thanked them for the-wonderful help ELDER SMITH & CO. LTD. and guidance they have given. the union and its members. Mrs. B, M. R!esbeth, p,resldent of the State Executive of the Women's Service Guild, FOUNDED IN 1839 was the guest BQSClker. She spoke of London during the air raids and the Subscribed Capital: .£4, 500,000. Paid·up Capitol: way Engl!sh wofnen stood up to such terrible exper;iences. Vlce-presidgnt, .£2,700,000. Reserve Fund: .£1,100,00 (invuted 11 to Mis. T: C. Wilson, thanked the speaker. Songs were given by Mrs. C. Baly and Mrs. E. Clear. Mrs. D. Dav!es played the ciceompanimenta, and for .£962,000 in Au atrali ~n and British Government Stock; the eomm'unfty slnqlnq of· Christmas carols. The chllc;lren's picnic was held on December 19. The tuck shop at King Edw.ard Matemity Hospital ·balance used in ~he business) . W.J>61 and Produce is now open and members are urgently requested to e nrol for voluntary Brokers,. Land and LivestocJc, Salesmen, Merchanta, Metal duty. . · • Brokers; · Shipping, Chartering and Insurance Alien••· ~ Mt. HAWTHORN· NORTH LEEDERVILLE 1>roprietors of "Elder'• W eekly." MeelinQ& have been fairly well-attended lately, but some members have been on the sick.list for some time. The ~ecretary, Mrs. Snook, and Mrs. Ballamr and Mrs~ have all been in hospitql. W,e_ wish them all · t better health tn e coming y ear. Bridge _parties are held every Thurs· HEAD OFFICE* : ADELAI9E day •afternoon nd Friday night. Members were glad to ~ee Mrs. Stock· min and Mrs. James looking so ('!en after their trip to the Eastern Statea. Perth Office: El4er House, 111-113 St. George'1 T~rr1ce, FOR SATISFACTORY ~VICE • -•. Perth. · -M.i,9dy's Fqncy Flofi~ts\ , Oflicee at 12 ROYAL A-RCADE, PE.RTH Geelong, Melbourne, Sydney, Britb..,.· and Lonaot,, For W reatlia. Weddfttq Bouquets, Sp~~ etc. · B~ O ffiGes throughout W -.m Aultralla and Iouth MBS. A. M. MACDONALD.- PROFESSIONAL _!J-OlnsT Telephon.. B 7072. cmd U 1590 (Home) . Australia, and at Broke~ HiU -,t WtotwortJl (N,t .W.). --~~~----~ftage 29 ;-.T H E. L 1 5 T E 'N 1-N G ft. 0----~ 5 T -~ \ ' ,- GARDEN FETE Da wson a nd Mrs. B egley); a fternoon tea (Mesdames Kennasto~1 Morgan, (Thla Item was made up from a report from a country p aper, cut i n Sulllvan and Kldd). An amusing episode was the cra zy h at competition, a ucb a way that there was nothing to indicate the auxiliary nor the run by Mrs. B. Holloway. Mrs. Wllklnson was judged the w inner. A p lace of the function. Dear Ladles, please do not expect ua fo b e sum of £42 wos realised. crysta l o a zers. An editor ha~ a har(j enough job a s it is, without ex- MAYLAND p eeling )lim to ba a guessing champlon:-Edltor, L.P.) S . . A · ·very pleasant and p{Ofltable garden fete, orga k d nised by Mrs. Len • During a recant visit to Claremont Asylum and lemnos, we 0 Wllldnson waa lu!,ld a t her home o n N ovember 9. The fe te were 'fu e 1was to by the Inmates: 0'Could we gel them somo fruit lor . Chris a ugment th11 funds of the R.S.L. Memorial Ha ll. It was officially opened tmas as ey by never see fruit any lime?" (This Is not correct- Ed>tor, l.P.) We, did Mrs. Randell, of the Sta le Executive. A bouquet w as presented to th rough Mrs. Rondl!ll the s ub·bra nch. In a country llko this where fruit is ple ntiful by Mioses Vole ria and Beverley McClure. The following thls should be suppli s talls did oood busin ed without having t o a sk for It as a special favourt es!'...: cake (Mrs. Greenhorn and Mrs. C ralg); flower The sub-bro nch~c entertained stall (Mrp. Swannell and Mrs. Brown); ge ently us a t a special porly In the M a y- neral atoll (Mesdames Coote, lands Town Hall then everybody had a most enjoya Ra wlinos, Shepb!!rd and Sampson); lee cream ble evening. MOY· and cool drinks (Mrs. lands sends No Year Greetings to all sister aux>liartes. ------~~------ASSOCIATIONS ·Of EX-SfllVIClMEN 1\are a: f I I lI-- fer Anu~m A.A.S.C. ZX.aDVICDimf'l AUOCIA TIOK-A.O.F. Hall, corner. Frcmda 8th BATTERY ASSOCIATION-Annua l Re un ion, Friday, October 11 (Show and Muaeum StflHita, Perth; 2nd Tueaday each month at 8 p .m.; Preal Week); President: Cla nte Woole r, Public Works dent: Lleut. .CO lonel. C Dept., Perth; Se~ _., . E. Jonea, A.D.S. & T., Crawley; Secretary: W. ta ri: Ja clc Ke nny, 138 6th A,venue , Inglewood. B. K;yle. Perth Roller Flour Mllla, Perth. · ' lOth LIGHT H A.E.M.E. ASSOCIAnON-5ecretary: J. Moron, Area Workshops, Bush ORSE ASSOCIATION-Anza.: House, Pert!\; w hen calle ' Pm: VALUE. and / \Friendly Serrice ! < .. 5 1 " ·I 'f •..· ! e-:- zcraw;.rr .--....,. / · THE L IS T EN I N G -P 0 S T Page 3_0 ·. .. '· R.S.L. SUB-BRANCH - DIREC~ORY R.te1: 1.1/1/- Per .Annum , , I'BEMAJfTLE CITY-Town· Hall. f'remantle; R.S.L. Hall, l;outh Terrace, . Presl ' AGNEW.....COyne's' Room; every 4th Sunday In month at 10 a.m.; • Fremantle· every alternate TbUtaday (aolcllera' pension night) In ' dent: Arth. Georqe, Aqnew; Secretary: J, Latter, Aqnew. ' a d ood c B S t~~ - ••••~Y-R .S.I.'. lnautute',· let fnaay iKlch month, a p.m.; P.reatdent: J. month; President: Alec.-Bracka, !>I u w 1rcua, 1cton; ecre-,. ~ " Middl H. G. WUaon, Fremantle City Town Hall, Fremantle. Phone L 2321-. 1':. Hay, State School, Albany; Secretary: A. Wrlght, 57 eton GASCOYME-Counctl Ctua., Camarvon; 2nd Tuesday; Prea.: D. Nonon. 1 Road, Albany, · - Ecut Camarvon; Sec.: Roy G. Godfrey, Box 91, Carnarvon. ARDATH-BABAXIN-Ardath Hall; let Wednesday In month; President: GERALDTbN-BtrdwOod House; 2nd Monday In each month; President: r J, Muntz, Ardath; 'Actlng Secretary: A. P. Lutley, Babak:ln. Roy Sltlnner; Secretary: F. J, Dunn, Geraldton. ARMADALE-R.S.L Clllbrooms; 2nd Wednesday, 8 p .m.; President: Spencer GLOUCESTER PARlt-Wembley Hall, 347 Hay Street, East Perth; lat Thurs- Gwynne; Secretary: Ray Blackbum, Armadale. d d h 9 Cav h SI t East Perth Secr&- BALINGUP-C.W.A. Rooms,· 2nd Tuesday each nlbnth, 8 p.m.; President: ay; Presl ent: Wm. Fls Elf, 4 e~am ree • ; · (Bo 33) lary: C. J, Lambe,· 40 Eton Street, N Perth. A. S. Wright, Ballngup; Seqetary: F. A. Mauger, Ballngup x · GNOWANGER UP - tt.S.L Rooa... Memonal Mall, Gnowangerup; lat Th.,.._ BALLIDU DISTRICT5-R.S.L. Hall, Jrd Saturday overy month at 8 p.m.; day In each month; President: E. ouse; Secretary: B. G. Alien, ·.' I Presldenll W. Townaend, Ballldu; Secretary: R. Petchell, Ballldu. Gnowanqerup. · BASaENDEIU'f-R.S.L. Hall; every Thursday at 8 p.m.. Bustnes& Ntgnts on GOO.MAu.m~Memorial Hall; la st Friday each month, 8 p.m.; President: Pension Day; Presl,_dent: T. Brewer, 60 Railway Avenue, ~as!>ndean; F. w. Dean (phone l ol); Secretary: J, B. Beckett, Goomalltng (phone 13). Secretary: R. R. Smith, 13 Chapman' Street, Bassendean. . GRAYLAND5-Green'a Bulldlnge (opposite Claremont Railway Sta11on1. 4th ~ IAYSWAT£R-To wn Hall, all. Wednesday, 8 p.m.; President: W. Ree~e. Friday In each month; President: A. J. Spence, 10 Mary Street, Munt St., Bayawater; Secretary: R. Hookway, 16 Arundle St., Bays· Claromont; Secretary: D. w. Komp, 26 Wa tt Street, Swanbourne. "''ley'• uall. Beaufort. Street,' Tolephones: B3123, 9-S; alter S p.m., (residence). • ....:' 0·aRteDr. & MOBLEY PAR•• 9 In~lewood,· ~025 -~ ....-ru •• ~ GUJLDFORD-Cour1 House. MjKJdow Street; let Tuesaay, 8 p.m.; Preatdent: 2nd Mondciy and. 4th -Tuesday In e.ach month at 8 p.m.; President: H. Moody, Perth Road, South Gu1ltl.lord; Secretary: P. F.' Dngebury, H. V. Pearce, 4 Sallebury Street, Maylands; Secretoey: B. C. Green, 111 Swan ltreel, Gutldlord. ~ 35 Third Avenue, Mt. l.awley. {')hone U 2680. GOTHA- R.S.L. Halt: Jet sunaay, 3 p.m.; Preetdent: E. Way, G utha: Seer&- '- BELMONT-Road Board Hall, Belmont: 3ra Monday In each month, 8 p.m.; tary: E.. A Matthewa. Gutha. · · 1 President: A. Ji. Downsborough, 80 Stuart Stree t, Mayland• t Secretary: GWALIA-L!ONOBA-A.W.U. Hall qnd Boad Board Office, Leonora (a ll.}; J, P. F'lanagan, S Flt:uoy Road, Rlvervale. Jat Sunday each month at 10 a.m.; President: L. F. Beech, Gwalla; BEVERJ.E'Y-R.S.L. Hostel Bwldlng; bt-montnly, 2nd' Saturd~; President: Secretary: D. E. c. Qyarll, Gwalia. · R. G. C. Prior, Forrest St., Beverley; Secretary: J, M. ~ Beverley. IIARVEY-R.S.L. Memorlaf Hall; :tna Tueaday, 8 p.m.; Preatdent: A. E. BODDINGTON-Forestry House, Boddington; last Sunday eac)i month at Ball, Herber1 Road, Harvey; Secretary: L. A. Preaton, ICnowlea Street, 10 a.m.; President: N. Lewla, Boddlngton; Secretary: Leo Price. Harvey. Hotel Boddlnqton. Phone 7. HEllNE BILL-President: · W. A. Byme, Lennard Street, Herne Hill. IIOYANUP-Boyanup Leeser Hall; 2nd Tuaaday. each month a t 8 p.m.; ' LAJ.<.io00fi.1.U:.-:>otruera lnautute; e,ve ry :tna lueaoa7 8 ~ - tu . ....ecuuve President: A. G. Scott; Secretary, C. Rellly. alt. Pr1daye; President: J. R. Hylton. Great Boulder, Flmlston; Seer&-. BOYUP BROOII:-Road Board Hall; 2nd Wednesday In each month at tary· A.. F. Merchant. ttS.L. Instttu-~e. Kalgoorlle · 8 p.m.; President: J, Carter, ·:coolague," Boyup Brook; Secretary: li:ARLG1t,BIN & f{YDEN- Last Friday each month; alternately, [arlgat1n· R. H.-MacLean, Boyup B_rook (phone 13). Hyden; President: H. H. Stafford, Marlgat1n Hlll; Secretary: J, H. ~ BRIDGETOWN-R.S.L. Hall; !at Tuesday ln. month, 8 p.m.; President: F. L. Treetrall, c/o. TrestraU & Co., Karlgartn. Phone 3. Ruck; secretary: W. A. Urquhart. Phone Bridgetown 239. URRIDAJ.£-Sheoa.l:. School; 2nd Wednesday In each month, 8 p.m.; BROOXTON- R.S.L. Clubrooms; 1st Friday, 8 p.m.; President: J. F. Coote, Preoltl• nt: H. f. McDonald: Secretarv: A. S. Benbow. Kamdal• Broolcton: Secretary: N. Rasmussen, Brookton. li:ATANNUI'G-Clubrooma, Carew St.; 3rd Friday In month: President: BRUCE ROCJt...-Orulds' Hall; 4th Thursday In each month at 8 p.m.; W N Mathewa, !Catannlng: Secretary: P. Stevens, Kcitanntng. Pres\dent: H. L. McGulghan, Bruce Rock; Secretary: G. A. Avery, J!EI.LERBEBBIN-Drulds' Hall. Kellerberrln; 3rd Wednesday at 8 p.m;; Bo:r 72, Bruce Rock. . President: G. E. Cralg, Kellerberin; Secretary: le.• Bloke, Box 9I. Btn.LIIBROOit- Bullsbrook Town Hall; let Saturday, monthly, 7 p.m.; X:ellerberrln. · President: Gus Plckett:, Secretary: Bort Scantlebury. I:ELMSCOTr-ROLEDTOD-J::elmacott. eYery third month Roleyotone: 2nd BUNBURY-R.S.L. Hall; 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 8 p.m.; President: Monday 1n each month; President: J. ' Hogan, River Rd., Kelmacott; H. E. Birch, Box 62, P.O., Bunburv; Secretary: A. R. ~eld, 99 Victoria Secretary: R. M. Thompaon, River Rd., Kelmscott. Street, Bunhury, P.O. Box 76 ' (phone 520). · KOORDA-Koorda; q uarterly (committee, 1st Friday); President: Jas. S. ,._ BUSSELTON-It.S.I.. Hallr 2nd Tuesday, 8 p.m.; President: R. G. thorn. Bowman Koordct; Secretary: W. H. Moore, P.O. Bo:r 11, Ko_orda . . Box 64 Busselton; Secretary: G. B. Hlnson, Fatrbalrne Rd., Busselton. ll:'01tEJIIK-K.:U:e rln Hotel; laet Saturday, bi-monthly (AU~J·• Oct., Dec., CALINGIRI:._Mr. Plant's Home; last Wednesday In each month: President: Feb., April, June); President: D. Hamilton, Kulterin; Secretary: R. W . S. · Campbell, Caltnglrl; Secretary: -H. W. Howard, Carant. V. C. Davidson, Kukerin: CARLJ.SL&--Bicktord Memorial Hall; 1st Thursday In each month: Presl· JttJLIN-R.S.L. Institute; w)len called; President:. G. T. Pound, Kultn: dent: Mr.' L. Gllee'enan, 48 Marr Street, Carlisle; Secretary, Mr. W. E. Secretary: 0. Honey. 1 · Palmar. 32 Blshopsgate Street. Carlisle. KUNUNOPPIN- Kununoppln Leaser Ha ll; · 2nd Wednesday- bt-montJ:lly; CITY OF PERni (ofllce hours : 9 a.m. to 5.30/p.m.)-Monash Club, lOa President: H. W. Leake; Secretary: R. Bunney. King Street; e very 2n,d and 4th Tuesday; resident: J. A. Laug hton. LAKE GRJ!.CE-Road Board Hall, 2nd Monday In each Month: President: · 110 Rosalte Street, Syblaco; Secretary: · ·' R. COok, Monash Clu.b, H. 'ff. Pelham, Lake Grace; Secretary: J, S. Lyall, Lake Grace lOa King Street, PertH1 Phone B 6238. ·• LAIEa DISTRICT-Lake I{jng Hall and Lake Varley Hall; every 2nd IJ 'CLAREMONT-Pariah Hall, Stlrllng Highway; 1st Thursday In each mQnth; month; President: H. Rogers, lake King; Searetary~ Jas. A. Bruce, President: W. Hopklnaon, 16 Queenslea Drive, Claremont. Phone Lake Varley (phone 1). · F 2672; Secretary: J, J, Ryan, 22 Brassey Street, Swanboume. PhOne MllNJlMOP-R.S.L Hall, Manjlmup; 2nd Thursday each month; President: • F 3124. " · Lou Thompaon: Secretary: Geo. A. E. Major. Manjlmup. COLLm-Soldlera' Hall; alternate Tuesday, 8 p.m.; President:· W. hannon, MANDURAB--Old Schoolroom; 4th Saturday, monthly, 8 p.m.; President: r,.,mt.- .Str.... t . Coltt,.: S..cretn.... · "' M.,.. <'.oiH• . · F. Emmelt, Cooper Street, Mandurab; Secretary: ·T. GJll, Glbson St. COOLGARDIE---Gears Ballroom; 2nd Wednesday In each month at 8 MARGARET 1UVEII-Pat1sh Hall; 2nd Tuesday each month at 8 p.m.; p.m.; President: Rev. E. A. Grey, The Rectory, Coolgardler-S Manur.:cturers of the fa.mou*s "Bullock" Bran·d S,ple and Harness Leathers, Bcltin ~ . Pump Buckets, c'tk. ' SpedaUI!nq ID · Automotln aJid Indutrlol Armcrtue aJid Motor / * Re-,ru;dlDq - IDitallatl~ aJid MalD.. naJic» . Sole Agents for Dr. Sholl's lf?oot Appliances ShlpplDq llepaln. . \ . * J. . 53 HIGH STilEET, ~ --' - PBOifllh L 2317. & p 3217 · Send for Free Booklet: ·'Xare of the Feet" I 1 , ~. ;.ts_ _ 1 I l'nnted, publis an~ hed by Edwm Stonley Watt. for the IMPERIAL PRINTJt.IG e~·· 397 Hay Street (East), Pertn. \ . . -·