CABLE BREVITIES CHILD DELINQUENCY IN SYDNEY

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1946, Page 4

CABLE BREVITIES CHILD DELINQUENCY IN SYDNEY

The citizens of the Gosford district north of Sydney are aroused over the continual breaking out of boy delinquents from the Gosford Farm Home. A protest has been made to the Child Welfare Department about wholesale robberies being committed by the escapees. On Wednesday a cafe proprietor who last week lost £67 worth of property caught a boy breaking into his premises. A recent survey showed that there had been 700 escapees in 12 months, and that hundreds of pounds worth of clothing and material had been stolen from neighbouring residences.—Sydney, August 1.

Farm Machinery Prices. The Office of Price Administration has authorised a 6 per cent, increase in the retail ceilings on all farm machinery.—Washington, July 31. U.S. Bomber Crashes.

At least 11 service personnel were killed when a Navy four-engined bomber crashed near Camp Kearney, San Diego.—New York, August 1. Australian War-time Factories.

Thirty-seven Australian Government factories and annexes have been made available to private enterprise for commercial use, according to the Minister of Post-war Reconstruction (Mr. J. J. Dedman). Of these 16 are in New South Wales, eight in South Australia, five each in Victoria and Queensland, two in Tasmania,.and one in Western Australia. In all 114 leases and six outright sales have been negotiated on behalf of business providing potential employment for 31,854 people.— Canberra, August 1. Sale of U.S. War Surpluses. The Assistant-Secretary of State (Mr. Dean Acheson) reported to Congress that overseas war surpluses which cost the United States initially 3,465,000,000 dollars had been sold for 911,000,000 dollars by June 30. The total surpluses left in 80 overseas countries and 30 island groups at the end of the war amounted to 9,500,000,000 dollars, of which much would he unrecoverable. Mr. Acheson pointed out that the Stilwell road in Burma and the Russian road through Persia and Iraq, which had cost 172,000,000 dollars, had been abandoned.—Washington, July 31,

Nazi Election Methods.

Documents which escaped destruc-' tion by the Nazis and which were produced at the war crimes trial for the defence in the case against the Political Leadership Corps, indicated the terror conditions under which elections and plebiscites were conducted under the Hitler regime. They showed that members of the corps were instructed to report on all persons who it was safe to assume would ' vote against the regime and on civil servants who failed to record their votes. One document showed how suspected “no” voters were trapped and detected by invisi-bly-typed numbers on the ballot papers.—Nuremberg, July 31,