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Newspaper
Ouyen Mail
Location
Ouyen, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 29, 1916
Page
2
A Queensland paper offered a prize for the best answer to a prompt about newspaper ticker wemeni. A lady won by reply suggesting everyone should have one, and humorously commenting on neighborly relations and journalistic days.
Town urges residents to buy 600 shares with a cheque to back a medical practitioner. Dr Hart departs for Egypt, Dr Lindsay to take over Quyen practice. Wheat deliveries to Ouyen for district soldiers continue, recruits like Dr Wittstire reflect wartime strain. Caleys to perform Friday night for soldiers relief. Auction notices prominent.
A letter urges Ouyen district farmers to donate crops for the district soldiers' fund as World War I imposes hardships. Signatories include Rev. GE Downton and Mr Hall with many local supporters pledging quantities and promises to be acknowledged in the Main.
At Elth inst a meeting of the Incal Progress Association carried unanimously a resolution condemning the Government for reducing the price of wheat to tillers toLondon parity. A local farmer received a cheque for bags of wheat amid deductions from a machinery account. Over 40,000 bags await transport to feed Entente soldiers.
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