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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 26, 1917
Page
3
Wartime notes describe rationing and production aims including drastic cuts to imports to conserve tonnage. They mention France Rome and Tunis allocations, minimum wheat pricing, and restrictions on fruit, overseas shipping, and luxury imports to support military needs and coastal defense.
Friday's ceremony honored prize winners across elementary and colonial class groups. Notable recipients include Alma Lowe Mary Dalton Ivy Demoon and Clarice Cox in various certificate categories.
The English Military Fund in Melbourne reports large cross‑territory appeals to aid front line troops with cigarettes and tobacco. In four months the fund sent hundreds of thousands of cigarettes and pounds of tobacco to forces including the Meadiemian and Egyptian Expeditionary Forces, with parcels distributed via the fund offices in Melbourne.
In a House Speech the Prime Minister defends the White Australia policy and sets out plans to aid returned soldiers. He notes wartime debt totaling about £191 million and near £178 million in annual war-era Commonwealth obligations, with further costs for repatriation land settlement and the 1917 18 wheat crop. He promises sound finance and tariff reforms to boost Australian production, while delaying major tariff changes.
A late 1910s public sale bulletin lists auctions at Colac and Apollo Bay with cattle sheep and horses. It includes dates March 2 1917 and details of fat cows, autumn heifers, crossbred ewes, lambs, and various store cattle. Multiple auctioneers and rooms organize items.
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