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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 13, 1930
Page
6
Grey blankets in all sizes offered at special prices from 18/11 to 326. Kapok quilts double bed size filled with Samarang kapok, 14/6. Pure down quilts double bed, fancy sateen cover, 28/6. Men’s and boys’ overcoats in newest styles and colors, all at August special prices.
Weekly Letter argues Australians must think solely of Australia and rally behind “the Man” to avoid civil war and economic distress. It praises Mussolini’s stance yet warns that selfishness and factionalism threaten national welfare, urging citizens to join patriotic groups and work for Australia’s needs.
The piece critiques Mr Scullin and the Victorian Labor Party, arguing taxes harm those with no incomes and urging unemployment insurance. It cites Sir Otto Niemeyer and Bank of England as proposing hard measures, with Niemeyer blaming political confusion and urging individual responsibility.
The Australian Ministry frets over shrinking trade with New Zealand and South Africa blaming protectionist pressures from small sectional interests. Major exports to New Zealand include wheat flour sugar coal leather and timber with values tumbling from 1824 25 to 1928 29 from large figures to markedly smaller ones.
The article urges every citizen to be an active, alert partner in national effort. It promotes patriotic duty, buying Australian goods, and organizing for collective success. It argues inactivity hollows citizenship and warns that a nation relying on half-hearted effort would fail.
A historical exhortation contrasting protectionism with free trade in Britain and Australia. It argues most Australians favor protection while Britain’s Labour Party leans free trade and Conservatives favor protection under a cap tion safeguarding. It blames mechanization and fiscal policy for industrial decline and urges matesmanship and new measures to meet a mechanical revolution.
J Krishnamurti explains in a reflective passage that a harmonized inner trio the physical body emotions and mind must align like three windows to allow light and happiness. He uses Vivekananda and a phonograph analogy to stress that noble thoughts must flow through noble emotions into noble actions.
An odd verse praising poetry and Woods Great Peppermint Cure appears amid lines about charity and cross border trade. The piece notes America spends a pound in Australia for every pound sent to the U.S.A and ends with a moral to buy.
A parliamentary report discusses Labour held rural seats in Australia and the impact of the primage tax on farming costs. It notes Hawker in Wakefield aiming to exempt farmers from duties, risking broader exemptions and continued pressure on production and exports amid party splits and caucus divisions.
A Victorian reader cites relief from persistent backache and kidney pain after using Doan s Backache Kidney Pills. The testimonial details a long battle with backache, partial paralysis, and kidney issues, praising the remedy for rapid relief and continued use. Sold by Foster McClellan Co, Sydney. urged to obtain genuine Doan.
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