b'126728 731728 731WORLD WAR TWO RECRUITING POSTER BCPA Southern Cross Route Spans The PacificYou Love Them. Fight For Them! Join The A.I.F. Now! c1948 colour process lithograph,c1943 colour and process lithograph, 75 x 49cm. Linen-backed.76 x 49cm. Linen-backed. Text at base British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines Ltd.$1,2501,500 Deaton & Spencer Pty Ltd., Lithographers.Printed in Australia.729 British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines or BCPA, was registered John E. HEAD (Australia), in Sydney, in June 1946. It was formed by the governments of [Australian Fauna], Australia (50%), New Zealand (30%) and the United Kingdom c1945 colour lithograph, (20%) to pursue trans-Pacific flights. BCPA was later taken over 34 x 101cm. Linen-backed. by Qantas and ceased operations in 1954. The original BCPA Text reads Heads Studio, Melbourne. Shows a magpie,route, depicted in this rare poster, was SydneyAucklandFiji kingfisher, parrot, pink cockatoo, kookaburra and koala. Canton IslandHawaiiSan FranciscoVancouver. Flights to and from Melbourne were added later.An illustrated booklet entitled Birds of Australia by John E.$1,2501,500Head (Heads Studio, Melbourne) is held in the State Library of Victoria. The 5 bird images in the poster are almost identical to those reproduced in the book. What was the purpose of this poster?$600800 730Avoid Disease. Be Clean. Starve RatsLate 1940s colour lithograph,46 x 61cm.Text continues Issued by the Department of Health, Victoria.By Authority the Hon. W.P. Barry, MLA, Minister for Health.William Peter Barry was Minister for Health in Victoria from Nov.1945 to Nov.1947 and again from Dec.1952 to March 1955.$600800730'