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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 27, 1915
Page
4
The passage outlines sowing and planting guidance by crop for month by month care. It covers asparagus broad beans beet cabbage cauliflower capsicum carrots celery garlic herbs kale leeks lettuce melons cucumbers onions peas parsnips spinach radish shallots tomatoes onions and more with notes on sowing indoors on hot beds and succession plantings. It emphasizes sowing rates and timing to ensure continuous harvests through autumn and winter.
The document states a soldier’s average weekly service length and required height. It lists pay per day for ranks: Sergeant ten, Corporal ten, Private chain of per day. It outlines marriage and child allowances, with 1/6 per day for a wife at home and 442d per day for each child under 16, plus a pension section referencing dependent mothers.
Arrangements established to collect metropolitan, national newspapers, tobacco, cigars and other articles for Australian soldiers and troops in the trenches. Haigh Broe offer a room at 225 Culling Street, Melbourne, with several firms providing supplies. New papers must be kept separate from used ones as only the former go to the wounded while the used go to the trenches.
It invites all classes of fire and live stock insurance at the lowest rate and directs inquiries to J. G. Johnstone & Co. Auctioneers Colac for information.
Notices describe farming and grazing divisions for bale and lease. Furniture sales at premises or auction rooms. Insurance arrangements for houses stock crops and hay. Weekly sales at auction rooms include poultry provisions furniture and sundries.
Real estate items list several 6-room houses and cottages with features like wash houses copper bathrooms and various frontages. Locations include Campbellstreet Dowling's Estate and Moorestrest with prices ranging around £280 to £578 and references to a new railway station off Gravesend Street.
The passage argues that despite debates since Aristotle about free will, humans remain convinced they can shape their nature through thought. It reflects on the tension between predestination and personal agency, noting that belief in self-improvement persists regardless of cosmic determinism.
The meeting of the Cooperative Bacon Curing Company held last week in Melbourne, chaired by M. Burke, approved the annual report and accounts for the year ending 30 June 1915. About 4000 shareholders attended, with 2500 still unreconciled. Directors M. Burke and four retiring directors were reelected, auditors Morton and Watson reappointed.
The Commonwealth urges qualified electors to enrol before summonses are issued. New enrolments will appear on the rolls printed for December. Claim cards may be transmitted to Registrars post free, reducing trouble and penalties for those who fail to enrol.
A garbled account describes German actions in Belgium and Belgium’s connection to a debt or ransom scheme. The piece mentions a figure of 2,000,000 per month and references torture or coercive methods, with vague notes on court-imposed penalties under General von. The wording is unclear but implies wartime control and extortion.
Murray Colac to let a series of dwellings and farm land options near Colac East and surrounding areas. Listings include 5 room houses, 16s weekly rents, and 160 acres water suitable for Dairy Stock. Additional homes and vacant land with varying weekly rents and terms available.
The document lists train routes and schedules across Port Fairy Warrnambool Allansford Panmure Camberdown and surrounding towns. It details departures arrivals connections to Colac Irrewarra Geelong Beech Forest Crowes Ballarat and other stops with weekly patterns and altered services.
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