Steel works seek lower prices through duties push
The company argues duties keep the home market for Australian steel and allow price cuts to benefit consumers. W Essington Lewis notes policy to push products into consumption at lowest prices with iron steel and fencing wire price cuts in February 1932. The firm contributes over £300,000 annually to Australian industry rehabilitation and emphasizes safety via committees, an ambulance staff, training programs, and internal promotion.
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Aaa
Ae x
Wae
Pelley
W. Essington Lewis
Nta
Alse
What a Man Eats in a Lifetime
A historical quote quantifies a seventy year old man’s meat consumption, estimating about 6240 pounds or 446 stones of meat, equivalent to 78 sheep or 10 cows, with alternate tallies including fish and poultry. It notes consumer uncertainty about beef quality according to local diners.
Gladstone Palace Ad Verifies Room Rates in Melbourne
An old palace advertisement promoting 100 rooms at 288 Victoria Street Melbourne near the Great Victoria Market. It highlights telegram contact F308 and a Caterion service with meals included. Rates show two double rooms with meals and permanent residents options at notable price reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone Palace
Tarife
Victoria
Melbourne
Board of Directors Names for the Committee
The list includes Edward F. Mitchell KCMG Chairman Hon H Alan Currie MLC Ivor Evans Exq Joel Fox RU Hon J G Latham P C C MG A C Sir Stephen Morell KB Allan Spowere Esq.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward F. Mitchell
Kcmg
E.c
H. Alan Currie
Ivor Evans
Joel Fox
Hon
J. G.latham
P.C
C.m.gaic
Stephen Morell
Allan Spowere
Warner's Safe Cure praised by Mrs Docherty in 1930 letter
A Chain of Ponds caretaker's wife writes that Warner's Safe Cure restored her strength after a major operation. She claims it eased severe head, back and side pains, improved her health after three doses, and urges others with liver kidney or internal troubles to try it. Sold at grocers and chemists at 5 shillings per bottle, or 2 shillings 9 pence for the concentrated form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Docherty
Chain of Ponds
Warner
Healesville Promoted as Nature's Scenic Masterpiece
A nostalgic travel sketch extols Healesville in the Great Dividing Range as Melbourne’s 40 mile playground. It highlights landscapes with peaks named St Leonard Juliet Monda and Riddell Toole de won, the Maroondah Reservoir, and a mountain holiday ideal for adventurers, nature lovers, photographers, and visitors.
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Great Dividing Range
Healesville
Melbourne
St. Leonard, Juliet
Manwind
Watts River
Maroondah
Graveyard of Cars on a Spring Joy Ride
An account of a late night drive ending on a grassy, steep hill where a farmer warns no car returns. With six farm laborers, the group tows the car up the hill over two hours. They learn each horse pull costs 21 and end up paying ten shillings plus tips and four tyres.
Traveling salesman and band quips from old Ireland and London
A Glasgow traveler in Belfast jokes about bands taking coats off to play while a Trishman boasts about bagpipes. Another London tale recounts a husband impatiently awaiting his wife at a London Symphony Orchestra banquet as she finishes her toilette, prompting his remark on simple preparations.
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Glasgow
Belfast
Trishman
Scotland
London Symphony Orchestra
London
Phrase Lessons Lead to Mocked Stereotypes
A classroom exchange features a teacher explaining common phrases and a child replying with a joke about labor and faces. The dialogue shifts to a humorous mishearing about the cow and its horns, highlighting light lexis.
Dimboola Cruises Resume Tourist Trips From Melbourne
The Melbourne Steamship Co. Ltd resumes the fortnightly tourist voyage aboard the Dimboola from Melbourne on January 3. The 12 day 2400 mile round trip covers Stanley Burnie Devonport Sydney Newcastle and Brisbane with return to Melbourne via Sydney. First class £14 third class £8. early berth applications urged.
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Melbourne Steamship Co. Ltd
Dimboola
Melbourne
Stanley
Burnie
Devonport
Tasmania
Sydney
Newcastle
Brisbane
Kingstreet
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Uci
Tod
Elliott & Dibb
Spencer Street Bridge
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Melb
sTonauga
Spencer Streat
John Broadbent & Sons
Bourke St
Neil
Neila
Collins Street
Golcryst
Deereesesest Amt
Rocke, Tompsitt & Co. Pty. Ltd
G. F. Finlay
Cambridge
M.be
Wisconsin
B.V Sc
Arogt
Richlie
Reber Tes Co. Ltd
Clarendon St
South Melbourne
Swanston St
Geor Waller
T. Martin
R Wood
the Union Trustee Co. OF Australia Ltd
Collins ST
Jackson
Abe Jones
George
Pat
Bridget
Orra
Elizabeth Sh
Alta-Laval
J. Bartram & Son
Little Bourke Bt
Milb
Porte Fone
Ambre
Geelong
Vic
Mupetter
Avery
Great North Sea
Felton, Grimwade & Durdins Ltd
Sultanas
Jemon
Sunshine
Collis Street
Mecune
OL ‘Tol
Comal Ole
Union Meg
Elizabeth Street
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