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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 15, 1941
Page
3
A Perth audience notes Labour Day decline under political Labour, while praising industrial labour. The piece urges fair vehicle licensing, petrol rationing considerations, and warns against fraudulent phone casualty notices, urging residents to ignore unverified calls from overseas casualties.
A university row erupts as Queensland undergraduates barred from the graduation ceremony respond with noisy protests. Frogs, alarms, buzzers, time bombs, and car tyres are used to disrupt proceedings, prompting reflections on student mischief and campus discipline.
Commonwealth Bureau of Statistics estimates show Canada produced about 538 million bushels of wheat in 1940 41, down from 210.3 million last season and well below the ten year average. About 12 338 million acres were sown, but drought lowered actual yields to 0.8 bushels per acre.
The piece discusses Ernestine Hill’s The Great Australian Loneliness as a classic for Australia lovers. It outlines the author’s five year, 50 000 mile journey across deserts seas and backcountry, noting encounters with aboriginal pearl seekers and prospectors, and praises the book's vivid storytelling and photos. The review mentions the Stinson rescue tale by Mr O Regan and highlights the adventurous tone and pioneering family life, with availability at booksellers for 4 shillings.
Emerson praises Britain as resilient and enduring through dark days. He foresees continued strength, vigor, and capacity for expansion, calling Britain mother of nations and heroes with unwavering trust in its power.
The article notes Canada would limit wheat to 230 million bushels, forecasting a major drop in planting. Over ten seasons to 1940 the average grain wheat area was about 26.0 million acres with output near 340 million bushels, and the cap would correspond to farming on roughly 17.6 million acres. Last year’s sowing reached 28.7 million acres.
Geelong businessman Stanley W. Gurr demonstrated a local formula to remove stencils from wool, wheat and flour bags so they could be reused. Demonstrations showed flour sacks returned to a clean white state with no brand marks, using locally sourced materials.
The piece reviews a substantial work about bush life and swag culture, noting Ernestine Hill's observations and vivid character descriptions. It highlights the voyage descriptions from Perth to Adelaide and across Central Australia, with the Koolinda cited as a recurring ferry motif and the author’s extensive field research.
NSW Transport Department reports dozens of applications for OO-000 plates and a rush for initial letter plates. Applicants seek J before Jellybean and numbers near their phone digits while some avoid easy recall. Initials I or O are barred to prevent confusion with 1 and 0.
A wary note labels the German plans as Jerry-built and unlikely to establish a lasting worldwide empire. The author questions the durability of such sehermnes and their political ambitions.
London solicitor ES Haynes hosted a dinner when guests recalled a butler's dramatic apology about a house in distress. The butler claimed to foresee bombing damage affecting the nearby homes, a claim later tied to wartime air raids and the butler's apparent second sight.
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