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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 03, 1940
Page
1
You use silverware and linen, hang curtains and pictures, wear fabrics carefully cut and adorn for the purpose of colouring the drab facts of food, shelter, and clothes. Advertisements enable you to put this colour into your life. They bring you news of improvements to quicken your pleasure, increase your efficiency, lessen your work to feed your hours with every comfort and convenience men have thought out for you.
A Wunghnu correspondent describes a bleak Numurkah and Shepparton shire outlook with no grass or crops, farmers broke, many sheep on roadsides, little fallow, widespread hand feeding, and looming irrigation relief as key to preventing farm futures from collapsing. Families split by enlistment, girls working to fill gaps, and stock at risk as wheat is labeled a noxious weed and credit strains under high costs.
Church notices list service times for Church of England and Presbyterian congregations across Numurkah Cobram Wunghnu Tallygaroopna Katamatite Drumanure Muscatine Strathmerton Naring Numurkeh Wasia Marungi Wonghnu Kaarimba Yousamite South Bearli Neathalis and nearby towns with various hours and officiants incl Rev Johnson Rev Alexander Rev Kemp Mr Moore and Mr Dudley Think before you speak Australian troops.
Hints for planting annuals by J. W. Robinson cover Jubilee Gem blue cornflower care Godetia Linaria Lobelia Nemesia pansies and stocks with border layouts and watering tips. Kitchen Garden advises sowing vegetables, soil aeration, thinning, and New Zealand spinach for dry districts alongside general crops and planting guidance. The Leader subscription rate is listed at 10 shillings per year.
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