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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 25, 1941
Page
1
The passage urges readers to use advertisements to color life with comfort and efficiency. It claims advertised goods offer safety and value, promising improvements to pleasure, economy, and convenience while suggesting readers choose from The Leader’s ads for the best today and tomorrow.
The Murray Valley Irrigation League discusses a postwar recovery scheme. Private estate subdivision would supply settlers with mortgage bank support and low interest loans. Settlers would farm dairying, pigs, poultry, lambs and crops, becoming tax payers and boosting local economies. A board of experts would refine land use, production limits, and funding.
The Wheatgrowers Association debated the Wheat Stabilisation Plan with divided views on acreage limits and production caps. A growers board with strong representation was favored to balance farmer and national interests. Suggestions included restricting production, shifting to alternative crops in some areas, and reverting to a rotation system next season where feasible, with Wheat remaining staple in the Goulburn Valley.
The Nathalia branch of the Returned Soldiers League and Progress Association commend an avenue of trees on Blake Street as a war memorial. They propose extending it from the water tower to the Murray Valley highway to beautify the main street and enhance visitors’ impression of the town. The council could fund this project from public money.
The Wheat and Wool Growers Association endorsed resolutions urging quicker payments to farmers. The No 2 pool calls for at least 3d per bushel and No 4 pool 1 shilling, with Mr F H M Cullen noting the Australian Wheat Board carries large overdrafts but arguing the country can support these payments using the growers' wheat as an asset. The outlook suggests prices may rise above 4d and that postwar demand could secure repayment.
If all the exercises we are told to do immone and story were faithfully carried out there would be a need for physical jerks. National Fitness
The piece extols persistence and discipline, urging readers to keep their backs to the wall, chins up, ears to the ground, and shoulders to the wheel. It counsels grinders, steady effort, and looking for the silver lining to improve fitness of body and mind.
A humorous What Would You Do segment recounts a hotel snake incident in Nowa Nova. Mr Boniface used a mashie niblick to pin the tail of the serpent while Joe Blake watched customers enter. the tail was nailed to the floor and a bull later arrived as the reptile was slain. Nova Nova locals vouch for the tale amid cafe culture.
The essay notes a shortage of men due to war enlistments and militia camps affecting ballroom dancing. It argues women may face a lean social season until after the war and irrigation projects bring more eligible young men, predicting fewer dances and awkward matches at balls.
A compact list of church services across multiple towns including Numurkah Strathmerton Cobram Naring Youanmite Katamatite Nathalia Nathstia Yalca and others with assorted start times and ministers noted such as Rev Johnson Rev Alexander Rev Kemp Rev Bequest Rev Hughes and Rev Lancaster. Cautionary note urges readers to think before speaking as rumours endanger others.
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