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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 07, 1944
Page
4
An essay argues music education strengthens memory, sentiment, and discipline, linking musical training to broader learning. It cites history, medicine, and daily work rhythm to claim music enhances efficiency, balance, and character across cultures.
Postal information outlines charges per ounce for letters and packets, express services, letter cards, post cards, printed matter, air mail, and parcels. Rates vary by distance within the Commonwealth, state, or beyond, with separate figures for commercial papers, merchandise, patterns, and special destinations in the British Empire and New Hebrides, Banks, and Torres Islands.
A nostalgic verse honors the steady subscriber who always pays in advance each year. It praises the cheerful support, the relief of timely payments, and the family’s appreciation, noting how the subscriber’s commitment makes the heart throb and eyes dance with gratitude.
Readable items show morning Holy Communion at 8 am and Matins with Sermon at 31 am. Evensong and Sermon listed at 7 30 am with Winyigny 239 pan and Evewwng appears garbled. The text preserves service times but cites unclear place names and misprints.
Bridgetown and nearby towns list Sunday times including Greenbushes at 7.30 pm and 10.30 am, Nannup Mil at 8.30 am, and Greenbushes again at 2.30 pm with Rev H W Farmar and K G FT Walker noted among speakers.
A detailed look at Pemberton State Saw Mills Line 216 miles from the city, opened in 1914 with expanding output. Workers live in four room cottages with gardens, kitchen and electric lighting, while single men stay in cabins near the mill. The piece notes prewar efforts to revive building, a 50 percent output rise, and hopes for continued growth and home ownership in Western Australia. It also highlights karri timber and the skill of bush workers as logs are moved by powerful engines toward the dump.
The article describes how music eases loneliness and fosters harmony in families, noting a clergyman’s daughters thriving on music. It shifts to Australian wartime and local tourism, praising Penberton facilities, trout fishing, a popular picture theatre, and a thriving mill district with workers and veterans. Oceanic industry excerpts touch India’s steel output and war impacts.
Myx Violet Hodgens of South Yarra Victoria salvaged a householder's life savings mistaken left in salvage. The owner had saved waste paper for the war effort and later forgot about £25 hidden in an old cigarette tin until a collector found and recovered it in the South Yarra depot.
The article recalls Australian units in Timor and New Guinea who harassed Japanese forces, endured harsh jungle conditions, and conducted long patrols from Ramu Valley to Kamu Valley. It credits their tenacity, hardihood, and skill for turning the war in New Guinea in favor and enabling strategic sweeps with significant dividends.
A British analysis notes Allied momentum in New Guinea and the Pacific with Rabaul and Salamaua mop ups, while Japanese leaders debate whether naval or air victories can save the war. It argues that despite setbacks, Japan and Germany keep fighting, hoping for a war’s endgame shift and Australia’s defection to co prosperity.
A description of the Haviland Mos Anito, noted as one of the few wooden constructed airplanes, praised for its light weight and claimed to be among the lightest and most capable operational planes of its time.
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