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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 29, 1944
Page
4
Retail listing details blue and fawn undergarments, 11/0 to 14/6 pricing and coupons. Includes wool singlets, long pants, waterweight wool items, and early 20th century knit outerwear. Items cover men and youth sizes with varied weights, colors, and elastic waists, plus half hose and knit pullovers.
The Leader urges a swift return to war duties by Cabinet ministers after the referendum, criticizing Dr Evatt and Dr Fratt while supporting Curtin. It calls for a nonpartisan postwar convention, wartime labor measures, and use of prisoners of war to relieve labor shortages amid clashes over constitutional change.
An opinion piece criticizes government overreach in information gathering and benefit reporting. It cites officials probing a letter with a French name, questions departments’ roles, and imagines broad powers under the Unemployment Benefits Act. It argues such powers could compel confessional reports and police compliance.
A November column suggested prisoner of war labor for harvests and other work. A late unsigned letter, signed "Non Sweater," objects to using POWs, arguing it would force Australian workers to the roads and lower living standards, and accuses the paper of misrepresenting the proposal.
A column notes a new letter signed Wm Brown repeating claims about an entity named Mr Brown congratulating the Leader on referendum success. The writer clarifies past statements about conscription fears and cites Manpower requisitions and unemployment provisions under the 1944 act, reflecting postwar policy tensions.
A fragmented church notices list includes multiple denominations and parishes such as Church of England at Steathmerton UC Ku fungu 10.15 and Nomurksh 11, Bishop of Wangaratti Presbyterian Nomurksh 1 and 7, Drumanure Rev Allison, Naring 11, Yarroweyah 3, Cob ham 7, Rev Fabb Methodist Nomurkah 11, Waaja 11, Baulkamaugh 2, Numur kah 7, Strathmerton 11, Naringi, Wunghnu 11, Ladies' Guild Ko arimba 11, Congupna West 2, Wun ghnu 7, Rev Kemp, Marungi 14, Bungartha 9, Mr Watters, Katamatite 3, Mr Wales You ang 11, Koonoomoon Colvvan 7.30, Rev Wackett, Youanmil Nathalia 01, Yalea Wales South 7, Rey Walen Bearil 230, NCE.
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