Melbourne letter on cafes and city landmark English
The piece laments Melbourne streets and cites a £100000 purchase to redevelop a Swanston Street site into a modern cafe, arguing pre war dining was superior to wartime rations. It laments tin post office building near Elizabeth Street and notes new publications and rising digest reading trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swanston Street
Melbourne
Australia
Wrecker
Platun
Elizabeth Street
Betaue
Ife
Flinders Street
Thas Genheen
Australian history lesson for Jap ends with Ned Kelly
A Japanese trader enters an Australian engineers camp and trades a wrist watch for tobacco. He then is stopped by a masked Australian on the road and forced to surrender seven watches and 10 fountain pens. The next day he tells an officer he was robbed and reveals the robber’s name as Ned Kelly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A F
Ned Kelly
Wheat Stabilisation Legislation to Be Introduced
Agreement at Canberra meeting leads Commonwealth and States to push wheat stabilisation laws for five years starting with the recent harvest. A guaranteed minimum price of 5/24 per bushel is proposed, aiming to keep bread and stock food affordable. Victorian Agriculture Minister Mr McKenzie expressed confidence in reasonable prices for consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australian Agricultural Council
Canberra
Australia
Victorian Agriculture
McKenzie
Wedding at Pres Church Tatura for Cobram East pair
A Cobram East man A Barrington and Grace Beryl Thomson of Tatura united in marriage at the Pres Church Tatura on a Saturday. Rev. K Paton officiated. Bridesmaid Edna Thomson and best man A S Barrington supported the couple. The couple will reside at Pine Grove Cobram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Pretty
Yarroweyah
Cobram
Tatura
Saturington
A. A. Barrington
Cobram East
Grace Beryl
D. Thomson
Sandmount
Edna Thomson
A. S. Barrington
K. Paton
Bundara
Stewart
Pine Grove
Cobramuth
W F Bourke Becomes District Agent for Radio Sets
Special announcement from W F Bourke Cobram announces he has obtained the district agency for Frank Harvey and Co Melbourne radio distributors. On display for immediate sale are latest model electric sets of excellent tone. First to inspect will buy. Stocks limited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Bourke
Bank Street
Cobram
Frank Harvey and Co
Radio Distributors
Melbourne
Adv
Electrical work by request in Cobram area
Notices solicit electrical installations and repairs. Mr. L G Jon in Cobram is the contact, with PB Amor given as a ring option. The ad references Numurkab 107 as a possible location or identifier.
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Irving Berlin
Culors
Britain
Grosvenor Square
Anna Nagel
Rex Harrison
Dean Jagger
Robert Morley
Here Comes
Kelly
Eddie Quillan
Jean Woodbury
Maxie Rosenbloom
Armida
Phone Cobram
E. J. Mulcahy
Atlantic Union
Joe Philip
Newsagent Appealte Post Office
Vogue
My Home
Woman Vans Journal
Homes and Gardens
Globe
Lenning Library
V. G Wyatt
Miss R. Jordan
Punt Road
T. Sumner
High Street
Homner
Heston
A. E. Peters
Katamatite Garage
Crysler & Morris Dealer
W. R. Denson
Dairyman
Wilbur Street
N.H. Jordan
H. Jordan
NICAL
Courier” Office
P.O
Lee Cual
W. Ewart Cassidy
Matateaapee 2
Tom Aton
International Harvester
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