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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 08, 1936
Page
1
A meditation on what makes sport worthy. The article argues a good sport keeps rules and goes beyond them with fair play, courtesy, and disdain for cheap tricks. It praises cricket and golf etiquette, warns against propaganda and mercenary aims, and celebrates sociable, honorable postmatch gatherings that lift the game’s tone.
A fragmentary call for a universal toast to sport as a unifier and promoter of physical and moral well being. It proposes a ceremonial pledge about everyone honoring their chosen sport while pledging to make sport beneficial to all, fostering citizenship and peaceful global aims.
A mild boom in life assurance starts 1935 in Australia guided by rising AMP figures. Growth driven by increased policy uptake amid post‑mood recovery, more young men and businesswomen, and wider policy forms. A.M.P. shows 1934 to 1935 rise from £17,961,484 to £24,022,500 with January alone matching expected quarterly totals. Great Britain and Inland divided among 2186 local authorities.
A clergyman fond of hot pickles carries a bottle while traveling. At a hotel table a stranger sits with him and asks for the pickles. The man drinks water, gasps, and then notes the clergyman’s dress. Conversation reveals the exchange hinges on expectations about clergy and Hades.
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