Be Prepared for Polio Warns on Precautions and Water Safety
Health officials warn polio outbreaks in Victoria and South Australia have reached New South Wales towns like Wagga Gosford Sydney and Singleton. Precautions include avoiding crowds not overloading children with fatigue strict hygiene boiling tank water in country areas and ensuring hand washing after lavatory use and before meals. Rest and early bedtimes are advised as key protections. The Metroplitan Medical Officer of Health Dr J Graham Drew urges caution about water safety and warns against unsafe bathing near potential contamination. The Health Department offers a free pamphlet with full precautions and symptoms from 62 Bridge Street Sydney.
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LMG
Victoria
South Australia
Wagga
Gosford
Sydney
Singleton
New South Wales
J. Graham Drew
Metropolitan Medical Officer of Health
Health Department
Bridge Street
Year’s oddest California weed spray accident explodes pants
The National Safety Council lists a California farmer who sprayed weeds with sodium chlorate, his trousers igniting as they dried and caused an explosion. Other odd incidents include a motorcyclist colliding with a deer on a country road, a deer kicking the rider, and in Chicago a gin rummy win resulting in a broken wrist.
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California
U8. Mational Safety Council
Chicago
Warren Oakes
Dairymen Report Strong Results From Egyptian Clover
Hunter River dairy farmers planting Berseem or Egyptian clover reported phenomenal gains says Hunter District Agricultural Meteorologist F D Mackenzie. Four good winter cuts and a November hay crop followed March sowing on lower Hunter flats. Clover thrives in cold months and under irrigation may suit Upper Hunter. It enhances soil nitrogen and tolerates wet or dry conditions. Sow 12 to 15 lb seed per acre broadcast and lightly roll. apply 1 cwt superphosphate per acre at sowing. Save own seed. Egyptian seed scarce since the war.
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Hunter River
Hunter District
Sola
Mackenzie
Egypt
A New Fruit Arrives in Australia Papple Cross Of Apple And Pear
A Japanese papple a cross of apple and pear arrived in Australia described as unusual and delicious by passengers aboard Kobe export sales of 4d to 6d per fruit. J Jowett Taiping collected 300 Th from Kobe to test passenger reception and taste.
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Australia
J. Jowett
Taiping
Kobe
Japan
Horticultural Division
Department of Agriculture
Daily Telegraph
Indiana Plan cures nurse shortage in Methodist hospitals
Milton Mayer reports in Reader's Digest that an Indiana Plan funded by Ed Gallahue recruited student nurses for three Indiana Methodist hospitals. By 1948 shortages eased as campaigns, films, and endorsements drew applicants, expanding to six states. Gallahue claims the program could end nationwide nurse shortages in two years.
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Methodist
Indiana
Ub.a
Milton Mayer
March Reader's Digest
Mayer
Theristian Advocate
Indianapolian Methodist Hospital
Gallahue
America
How Fashions are Made in London and Paris
A BBC Oversea program discussion by John Tullis and Captain Molyneux exposes the fashion trade. Paris and London shows demand hundreds of models for each collection with a large staff behind the scenes. The process begins with drawings, fitting toiles, and final adjustments in London and Paris, with Molyneux supervising from Paris.
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John Tullis
Captain Molyneux
Molyneux
Paria
Tullia
London
France
Paris
Tulle
Cine Gailor
Tullis
Knight of Road Seeks Retirement in C T A Parley
Wally Thompson, a Knight of the Road and longtime rep for Alexander Cowan and Sons Ltd Sydney, retires after over 40 years serving the North Coast. From Rooseville, his wife and three university graduated daughters Marjorie Filmi and Stella will miss him, as he recalls travel from Ballina to Drake and Taree since 1919, bridging city and country with his service.
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C.T.A
Commercial Travellers’ Association
Knights of the Road
Wally Thompson
Alexander Cowan and Sons Ltd
Sydney
Thompson
North Coast
Wally
Mr. Thompson
Rooseville
Richmond
Taree
Alex Cowan
Macleay
Ballina
Tenterfield
Drake
Newcaste
C.W.D
Lysaght Bros resume wire netting production at Chiswick
The Minister for Agriculture Hon. & H. Graham announced that Lysaght Bros Australia Pty. Ltd at Chiswick have begun wire netting production. Trial runs are under way and output will reach 35 tons per week soon, rising to 50 to 70 tons as labour allows. The program aims to ease shortages and restore the firm as a major local producer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Graham
M.A.W
Messra. Lysaght Broa
Australia Pty, Ltd
Chiswick
Graham
Commonwealth Employment Service
Ume
Mesars
Lysaght Bron
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Wristler Watches
Bank of New South Wales
Bathurst
Ballarat
Bendigo
Cureka
New Guinea
Papua
Wales
Bank OF
First Bank IN
P. J. Taylor
Taylor Engine
Recovport Ava
Kaniton, Mewes
Rieyts
Spanay. A
Loobarfalde
Bebarfald
Rseas
Bebarfalds
Thorn Street
Newcastle
Oeye
A.M. McDonald & CO
Chalmers Street
Central Station
A. B. Campbell
Hing Bi
Gloucester
Bowden's
Lysaght Bros
Grafton
North Comat
South Grafton
Convent Ladies' Auxiliary
Ald
J. C. Lane
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