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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 23, 1941
Page
1
Garden notes discuss hydrangeas as decorative plants, noting pink and blue color shifts using blueing powder. Directions specify applying about a tablespoon per established plant, lightly forked in and watered, every three weeks until bloom color stabilizes. Mentions of varieties, maintenance tips, and odd gardening tidbits appear amid a jumble of garbled text and stray advertisements.
Gunner A L Martin recounts the long voyage from Queenscliff to Sydney and Brisbane, then through Port Moresby Kavieng and Rabaul to Darwin. He describes shipboard life, tropical towns, native encounters, jungle camps near East Point, weather, heat, and hardships, plus notes on food, morale, and the strategic fortifications guarding Darwin.
Australian households are urged to shift eating habits to support the war effort. Emphasis on using more lamb bacon apples cheese butter and Australian wines to reduce exports and boost domestic munitions funding. Good food means balanced nutrition with proteins carbohydrates fats minerals vitamins and water for daily health. Scientists since the past twenty years study protective foods to bolster defenses.
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