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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 13, 1940
Page
3
The article urges readers to stock vegetable plots with beans lettuce beetroot spinach carrots and other crops while ditching frost sensitive salad varieties. It advises sowing tomatoes in glass boxes and using recommended seed varieties while detailing soil care fertiliser watering and cultivation practices for a productive home garden.
Beetroot is praised as an easy vegetable to grow with varieties like Obelisk. The article advises soil preparation after cabbage or cauliflower crops, sowing rows 12 to 16 inches apart, thinning to one plant per inch, and regular cultivation. It notes soaking seeds, proper watering, and succession planting for steady harvests.
Oldest nursery supplier in Australia promotes a rose catalog with varieties including Reds Pinks Yellow White Copper shade. Offers to ship by passenger train prepaid and requests orders from Sydney area via Shepherd & Gon Pty Ltd Box 10088 GPO.
In Loreal Police Court on Friday morning the case of motor breach is heard before Magistrate Mir Fe Dior and PM William Barton with Myed. The charge concerns failing to notify the Department of the transfer of a motor vehicle registration. Mor Williams, for the defendant, noted the motor vehicle was traded in to an agency that undertook to notify the transfer.
Wool buyers and assessors in Winchcombe and surrounding towns compile a Sydney catalogue of ewe and ram valuations. Names include Payne, Larkings, Morley, Ludlow, and Dowgtes with bids and weights noted in pence per ewe. Indicates market activity at Wamboyne and Goolagong districts with various 12d to 18d valuations and bred stock entries.
Report covers attendance at Wednesday night meeting with most aldermen present except Alderman Helmarty. Notes on Forbes sanitation inquiry, conference plans in Sydney for Local Government association, and council debates on conference representation and funding. Mentions postal, works, and public health officials, plus staff changes and engineering position updates.
War time notice asks relatives to aid the enlistment committee by supplying full names addresses and regimental particulars of missing men. The list includes numerous names such as Anderson J A and Baker L A along with many others, urging swift cooperation to complete records and line the mediate portion of the army intake.
A regional plea urges immediate action to organize repatriation for exiled citizens and to begin prewar reconstruction, arguing early groundwork saves lives and reduces debt burdens on returning soldiers. It notes political banners and demands from leaders like Hodby and calls for government, industry, and civilian coordination before hostilities end.
A garbled OCR style fragment discusses washing and cleanliness, referencing Persil and generic laundry tasks. It presents no clear event, person, or location, and lacks coherent facts to summarize into a real news item.
The writer describes Endin's Tower of Victory in red sandstone and a route from the Imperial City through Dell to religious sites. It highlights the Mosque and Cathedral Monque, sacred cow beliefs, and Chinda Chiuuk on Silver Street with famed ivory carvings, including a long- labor ivory screen. notes on durability and age.
The article tours India’s capital Delhi, the Viceroy’s pageantry, and India’s cattle shows amid colonial pomp. It notes sacred bullocks in urban rituals and praises British rule. It then shifts to Lucknow racing, highlighting Beasley family horse Koomluck winning at Menangle and Moocher as a promising stablemate.
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