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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 16, 1941
Page
3
A personal commentary on Labour Day in Perth, criticizing the political Labour shift, praising industrial Labour, and lamenting bland displays. A second focus condemns road taxation inefficiencies, petrol rationing, and licensing fairness, urging fairer charges and cautioning against cruel hoax calls about overseas casualties.
A column argues University of Queensland students overstepped by being barred from graduation and responding with loud pranks. Frogs, alarms, buzzers, horns, time bombs and other disruptions were used as the ceremony was targeted, with faculty cars’ tyres also deflated in protest.
Commonwealth Bureau of Statistics reports wheat output in 1940 41 about 85.8 million bushels, 60 percent below 1939 40’s 210.3 million. Estimated 12.338 million acres sown, but extreme dryness reduced yields to 6.80 bushels per acre, well below recent years. Deliveries for the coming season in Canada were discussed.
Review notes Ernestine Hill's The Great Australian Loneliness tracing a five year 50000 mile journey across deserts seas by air camel ship and truck. It highlights aboriginal pearl seekers white interior women and pioneering life with photos and a price 9 shillings. It also covers Mr O Reilly's 1937 Stinson plane crash rescue saga with immense jungle trek and a rescue party to a settlement.
RR. W. Emerson lauds Britain as steadfast, recalling dark days and storms survived. He sees a vigor in old age, not decrepit, but daring, with belief in endurance and expansion, calling out All Hail Mother of Nations and Heroes.
The plan caps output at 230 million bushels, aiming to shrink cultivated area. Over the ten seasons ended 194, the average wheat area sown in Canada was 26,019 acres with 340 million bushels produced. Based on average yield, 230 million bushels would require about 17.6 million acres. last year’s sowing reached 28.7 million acres.
Geelong resident Stanley W. Gurr developed a formula to remove stencils from bags and packs making them reusable. Demonstrations to wool industry officials and flour millers showed the solution cleans flour bags to a white, bare state without damaging the bag material.
A vivid survey notes Ernestine Hill and other bush workers with swags as mobile furniture of life. The Koolinda voyage and wireless gossip illustrate frontier welcome as ships reach Perth to Darwin. Robertson & Mullens in Melbourne publish this extensive regional panorama.
Dozens apply for plate OO 000 while officials note many seek personal initials JJ or near their phone numbers. BF series unpopular. BO allowed. initials I or Q refused as resembling 1 and 0.
The headline warns that Germany's bid for a global empire appears flawed and unstable, likening it to a jerry-built construction and implying later collapse or failure of the scheme.
A London solicitor recalls a dinner guest incident from 1937 where a butler claimed second sight predicting bombing damage to the street. The story, told by the Sunday Express, notes the house remained inhabited while neighbors were damaged, and the butler persisted in his claim.
Tom Parkinsons Colony Poultry Farm near Northam lists prices for chicks and eggs with freight included. It promotes mixed poultry stock and free advice, inviting requests for a free catalogue and personal recommendations to friends.
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