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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 23, 1939
Page
6
Mr Casey the Minister in charge of Scientific Research notes that good seasons bring footrot challenges in sheep. Two types exist contagious ret-rot and malignant lameness. controls include foot-baths, rest, and flock inspection. Council studies vaccines and advises veterinary departments for treatment and prevention.
J E Sievers LL B will be interviewed at 286 Hampshire Road Sunshine next National Bank every evening from 7 to 9 p m. The notice lists the address and hours for the interview sessions.
A light crunchy confection titled Chocolate Crackles is promoted as the year’s must make treat. It promises easy preparation with rice bubbles, coconut, icing sugar, cocoa and Copha, no cooking required, yields two to three dozen bite sized pieces.
The Radiator notes high hire purchase interest in Australia with hidden rates around 20 percent and banks seeking lower six to four percent terms as motor finance shifts. It urges unified traffic engineering actions and a coordinating body to improve Melbourne street safety.
In a wartime-dialect exchange two men discuss a lump in a waistcoat that is revealed as dynamite. One warns that if Murphy grabs him again and breaks his pipe, he will blow his hand off.
A concise review praises The Modern Ballroom Dance Instructor 1939 edition edited by Adela Roscoe and Cyril Fai for teaching basic principles of contemporary ballroom dancing. It details popular dances like Lambeth Walk and Blackpool Walk, with variants of Tango and Foxtrot, available for 9d and distributed in Australia by Robertson & Mullens Ltd in Melbourne.
A school inspector tests pupils with wordplay in a classroom. One boy named Johnny jokes about age, saying a road 100 yards long and in yards broad is forty tours pitt, explaining his brother is twenty two and half eaten, provoking laughter.
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