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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 13, 1940
Page
1
Advertisements color the drab facts of daily life by offering news of improvements that quicken pleasure, increase efficiency, and ease work. They guide readers to timely usage, economy, and trusted goods, helping obtain the best today and save for tomorrow.
Tungamah Council's monthly meeting records multiple correspondence items. The board notes objections to an air raid warden appointment from St James and confirms the warden is a shire choice. It includes remarks on infectious disease fees, road work at Clurey, sustenance for workers, a Cobram brick-area dispute, gateway work delays, lagoon water flow, hawker by law query, transport committee actions, fencing bids, and a concrete box culvert project on the Benallas-Tocumwal road with flood-damage funding.
Garden notes cover perennials including Erigeron Gigantea and Quakeress with autumn to winter bloom. Describes Pyrethrums, Tritomas, Thalictrum, Potentilla and kitchen garden tips on manuring and plot allocation for onions carrots and beetroot.
Mr H C Stening warns drought food shortages reflect policy failures, urging fodder conservation as essential to stock survival. He notes three aims seasonal reserves and shortage buffers, cites losses from starvation, and details farm and regional measures including fodder crops and storage practices.
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