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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 22, 1940
Page
4
An unreadable OCR fragment presents scattered phrases and noisy names. It appears to reference speech about selling, personal pockets, and scattered identifiers, but lacks clear events, dates, or coherent entities to define a news item. The text is largely indecipherable.
Fragmentary report details wartime discussions and military orders. Mentions Prime Minister Genral and South theater notes, with references to donors and orders, and potential evacuations or flight risks affecting fund transfers.
At a landholders meeting in Moira Riding, residents endorsed a plan to restore Rice's weir damaged by floods. They agreed to petition the council and raise about £80, with the Moira Riding contributing £50 and the Water and Forests Commissions pledging £50 each. Members debated one or two pipes, upkeep costs, and a rating method to fund maintenance, while stressing the need for a balanced share among benefited parties.
Letter from William Ager of Yambs NSW criticises public misunderstanding of money creation. He argues banks create “credit money,” not deposits, and that overdrafts and bank purchases expand the money supply. He warns Australia will spend large sums on war, urging the Commonwealth Bank to finance war by public credit rather than private banks.
A Victorian era notice for Walter Bursill Hairdresser and Tobacconist advertising services and products including tobacco cigars cigarettes pipes and related requisites offered at Membatrest Hewertah Katharina and Board teparfares of kinds of Mebbireslog.
Kenneth Slese reports on the Australian Labour Front or ALF exercise in England. The event used blank ammunition to simulate battle, with infantry artillery and machine gunners all firing harmless charges. A smoke mine and mock explosives heightened realism while engineers placed dummy land mines. A captured prisoner incident highlighted wartime bravado and discipline amid martial atmosphere.
Distiet blacksmith warns farmers to refrain from selling old iron or steel to itinerant buyers. Supply houses report a short age of metal. without relief, farmers may need to bring in steel for work. The war effort is not affected, and waste collectors request metals not be forwarded. A steel merchant cites exhausted stocks and no info from BHP and Lysaght's on future supplies.
The purpose of all advertising is to show potential buyers what you have for sale why they should buy what it costs and where they can buy it.
Garden notes discuss planting times for decorative flowers and vegetables, with emphasis on primroses, mums, and purple bedding plants. It covers when to plant, how to space, stake, fertilize, watering needs, and general garden maintenance including kitchen garden tips and tomato safety for various districts.
Fragmentary OCR shows a business notice mentioning New Zealand Loan And Mercantile Co. and references to loans and settler activity. The readable fragments include a phone-like string and scattered words about warrants and winter. Details are unclear and entities partial.
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