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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 16, 1916
Page
4
A speaker urges public support for a Do Without Week to fund war effort and pressure nationwide savings. He criticizes indulgence, touts compulsory measures as second best, and cites gambling and alcohol as wastes while calling for unified sacrifice and voluntary restraint.
A letter encourages residents to join a voluntary drive to refrain from buying or consuming drinks and from shouting in public social scenes for a week to save money for national needs. The writer suggests a league or bill to ban shouting, citing London’s no treating order as a model and noting reductions in drunkenness and social tyranny.
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