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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 03, 1941
Page
4
Weekly review blames party politics for wage tax schemes during war. It argues the payroll tax burden spreads beyond wages, inflating industrial costs, and labels the policy childish and unjust. The piece criticizes Curtin government handling and calls for principled action against profiteering and tax misuses.
The article argues against lowering voting age to 18 in Australia, contending youth lack political knowledge and suggesting 21 as more suitable. It rejects using wartime sacrifice as a political tool and urges the council to scrap the 18 year enrolment idea as unconstitutional.
A call echoes to restore character in the nation urging voters to value citizenship and integrity. The message warns democracy cannot endure without truth guiding government and society.
Instructions describe making jam from grapefruit and pineapple. Soak 4 lb grapefruit in 8 pints water overnight, boil 1 hour, add 12 1b sugar and boil 45 minutes. Chop pineapple and add when nearly done, use juice to top to pints. Citron and pineapple may accompany the mix.
The author argues that party politics corrupts Australian governance from national to local levels. He warns that ministers and committees enforce party interests, creating a secret fund culture and a cycle of habitual party voting. Only suffering and truth can redeem Australia and restore freedom.
The body of the lieutenant commanding officer of the 10th Garrison Battalion at Rottnest Island remains unrecovered delaying an inquest. A military inquiry is expected. Winds along the Fremantle coast have caused accidents as Colonel Kuring was last seen during a gale near cliffs and surf.
An English reader laments a new class of habitual queuers born from bombing and rationing. Families waste scarce money chasing pie bargains and meals after long queues. Women report long waits for uncertain goods, with buyers silent as shelves clear.
A Girl Guide and three colleagues describe their week relieving Red Cross canteen staff in Manilla. Caves stretch two miles with sections 12 feet deep, serving as air raid shelters. The makeshift town includes a church, cinema, VAD ward, barber, and three canteens. Canteen work begins at 7:30 with tea, cocoa, lemonade, sandwiches, and baked goods for residents.
A narrator describes entering a pet shop by mistake and finding only a single bird seed item. Frustration grows as crowds form for biscuits and other items run out, provoking anger at the situation and a harsh wish for discipline.
A Digger describes cheap labour-saving laundry methods near Tobruk. One method uses sea or river tides to swing clothes on a cable between shore and water, letting waves wash them. Others involve swinging shirts into the water and trampling them in shallow surf to rest arms and cool under waves.
The piece notes government now provides two and three tire banks while people fund and build electric light, water, and sanitation. It describes cave-dwellers improvising rooms with curtains and makeshift furniture, then serving patrons in a shared canteen with improvised containers before dawn shifts end.
A late night collision in Perth near Wellington Street involves Budd Doyle 11 and Theodore Dressler 18, with Grieve killed and Dressler surviving. The third occupant, other details and testimony at the coronial hearing are incomplete in the report.
Fowl Tick Fever affects fowls ducks and geese of any age. Transmission occurs via the fowl tick Argas persicus and the red mite Dermanyscus avium. Ticks stay infective months after feeding and can survive years without a meal. Symptoms include acute diarrhea paralysis thirst and dark combs. mortality can exceed 80 percent in severe cases. Control requires eradication of ticks and mites. treatment is costly and rarely used. Prevention relies on thorough housing sanitation and regular, repeated insecticidal treatments to eliminate hiding places in nests perches and walls.
Lieut. Stanley Bentley age 23, invalided back to Australia from Tobruk, received a white feather from an elderly woman who smiled and hurried away. Two days earlier at Palm Beach three girls questioned a civilian about khaki, identifying a returning captain Bjellee-Petersen.
A pupil tells a teacher she has a new baby brother named Aaron. The teacher later questions Aaron and learns the baby’s proper name is Moses. The child explains the confusion proudly and says both parents know about Aaron.
A reflective verse fragment notes pleasure in anonymity and disdain for fame. The speaker calls readers to embrace a discreet existence and avoid public scrutiny, contrasting with a froglike showiness.
Red water results from two tiny protozoal parasites, Piroplasna bigluium and Piroplasna divergens, transmitted by ticks. Treatment focuses on prevention by removing ticks, plus specific medicines and supportive care to clear urine and restore appetite and hydration.
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