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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 13, 1939
Page
5
A collage of late notices requests for female help and household tasks. Messages praise hospital staff and doctors. Classified items include electric water jugs and irons for sale, plaster sheets and joinery offers, a June perm promotion, tender notices for earthworks near Forbes NSW including deadlines and tender procedures.
Vic Preschett and Mire Austen invite members to a club meeting at the Bowling Green on Wednesday October Leth. The official spelling of the club is noted and ladies are asked to join in. Austen, President.
W Elman declares candidacy for Forbes municipal council vacancy caused by Alderman Butler. He pledges open meetings, prudent spending, and rate reduction to attract investment and grow Forbes into a greater town. He cites local knowledge, business ties, and democratic governance as qualifications.
Norma Shearer and Clark Gable star in Idiot's Delight at the Strand Theatre. Clarence Brown directs with Edward Arnold Charles Coburn and Joseph Schildkraut among the cast. The stage story follows two lovers amid war abroad and a dramatic wedding scene as they face peril.
The Alma chief engineer Mr J Fielder urges drivers to conserve fuel by ensuring engines are in good condition and driving smoothly. He warns that careless driving including open choke and rapid acceleration wastes petrol and raises consumption significantly.
Mr Jot Hogan urged that abolition of State Parliaments is misplaced amid current finances. He warned it would not cut taxes and cited heavy wartime taxation and reliance on the Commonwealth Bank. Hogan spoke in Stuart Town and planned to address Forbes, proposing a Western Districts Monetary Reform Association.
Capt. Von Runteln, newly returned from Ostend, urges Britain to form a division of Daleks, Austrians, Germans and other foreigners now in Britain to fight Hitler. He cites Franco recruiting 50,000 foreigners and argues officials should separate loyal refugees from traitors, warning of potential concentration camps.
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