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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 21, 1943
Page
4
A letter by A. G. Hute condemns Dr. Lloyd Ross and the Servile State, arguing planners and bureaucrats threaten British liberty after the war. It attacks federal expansion, envisaged controls, and a secret police of inspectors, warning of reduced freedoms and a dystopian postwar economy.
December vegetable care guidance from the Department of Agriculture covers dusting tomatoes with sulphur to deter tomato mites and adding lead arsenate, spraying with Bordeaux mixture or copper oxy-chloride against blight and leaf spots, weekly tartrate emetic spray for spotted wilt, leaf miner control in lettuce with nicotine sulfate soap and water, nematode resistant sweet corn, side dressing with nitrate of soda for greens, proper watering patterns, and discarding cabbage and silver beet that have bolted due to winter and spring conditions.
A returning SOE worker vents against wartime excess and civilian unrest in Sydney. He recalls 12 months in the jungles and Middle East, laments strikes and spending, praises war loans while urging discipline, and questions postwar job prospects for veterans, noting those who fell overseas died for a dream.
Prices rose for first quality eggs by 3d per dozen and for live weight fowls by 3d in wholesale markets, effective from yesterday.
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