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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 20, 1944
Page
4
The store promotes its dress department with a wide range of fabrics including tweeds, Kashas, flannele, and natural fibers in multiple colors. Prices range from 3 to 11 shillings per yard with coupon deals noted across fabric types and widths.
Evening event features Don Amedis Janet Blair and Jack Oakie in a film program advertised as Not Suitable for General Exhibition Also shown are clips featuring Komaure nT Raty and Margret Lindsay with promotional messaging No Place for a Lady and related titles presented as light entertainment in a mixed program
Deanna Durbin stars in a revived program listing Deanna More Enticing Than Ever alongside Joseph Cotten in Harrigan's Kid. The bill features Bobby Readick Frank Craven and William Gargan in a drama of thrills set to pounding hoofs.
The Leader argues against Mr Beasley claiming private enterprise could run wars noting war is a national effort. It cites Australia’s wartime supply, government interference, and labor shifts in America and Australia, stressing private enterprise did not manage war but contributed amid government plans.
A fragmented OCR reads like a teaser to a fable about readers and anticipation. The wording conveys a rush to tell and a critique of critical readers within a compact, uncertain fragment.
A satirical tale recounts Bill who plans to grow wheat for the war effort but faces bureaucratic hurdles. He cannot register his land, procure a plough, or obtain fertilizer, and is blocked by ministers and acts. Undeterred, Bill and his grandmother harvest with a spade, supplying a small 45 bushel crop to aid soldiers and allies amid a chorus of official apathy.
Readable horticultural notes cover plants like Erylorina Compacta Forsythia Intermedia and Lagerstromia Crepe Myrtile. Advises drought resistance, sharp pruning after flowering, warm positions, and 6 to 8 ft growth. Also discusses Lilac grafting, flowering, and pruning, plus rose and fruit tree planting timing.
The Australian Mutual Society convened in Sydney on Friday June 9. Ly uel Horden, the chairman, reported a strong rise in new business despite reduced field staff for national service, noting total new business surpassed £26,000,000 and war claims exceeded £41,000,000. The society outlined postwar plans to assist employees in home ownership and postwar immigration, alongside strengthened reserves and continued government support during wartime.
A fragmentary OCR note reports the Federal President of the Communist Party discussing advertising and its purpose to inform potential buyers why they should buy, dated from a past session and reflecting party messaging.
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