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Newspaper
Burrowa News
Location
Burrowa, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 31, 1939
Page
8
The Minister for External Affairs and Attorney General Mr W M Hughes warned employers in Sydney against discouraging militia enlistment, citing a £100 fine under the Defence Act. He and the assistant minister saw no need for compulsory training. Anecdotes on MacGregor and MacPherson teetotaling and illness follow in light relief.
The article argues drought harms farmers not by lack of rainfall but by lack of capital to store water and supply power. It advocates boosting irrigation via cheap electricity, financed by the New South Wales Rural Bank and state schemes, linking production to consumption and stressing national defense through self-sufficiency. It cites Lithgow power costs, Queensland fertilizer schemes, and calls for coordinated public and bank support to fund pumping plants, water motors, and irrigation channels.
The bishop warns Americans must lead global democratic efforts under President Roosevelt. He praises Roosevelt as imaginative and capable of inspiring democratic spirit, while stressing dangers from internal division and neglect of social welfare. He calls for stronger ties with Britain and closer U S Australia relations.
Denis Daly the world’s tallest man exhibited at a Bournemouth conference in 1996 with his 3ft wife. Embalming and £1000 to kin promised if his death occurs elsewhere, body to be returned to District Research for Surgeons, St Martin’s Field, England. The couple is described as the world’s strangest married pair.
The schedule lists lunar phases for the month with a Full Moon on the 4th Last Quarter on the 12th New Moon on the 20th and First Quarter on the 27th.
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