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Newspaper
Warwick Daily News
Location
Warwick, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 16, 1952
Page
3
A fragment notes oatcakes mistaken as cork or table material. The quirky comparison hints at confusion in a kitchen or supply setting, suggesting a humorous mix up between edible items and inedible objects. No identifiable people or organizations are named.
A little girl Lita helps two dwarf bakers outwit Gugg the Goblin who steals their Christmas cake. Father Christmas arrives with sleigh and reindeer, the goblin falls into a rabbit hole, and the dwarfs regain their feast with the recovered cake.
Prices at Roma n Street show pumpkin sales from £10 10s to £13 5s per ton. Onions £7 to £20, whites £23, lucerne hay £12 line, most £10 10s to £13. Maize four lines at 15s. Fruit and vegetables quotes list Standthorpe apples 20 to 40s per bushel case, apricots 20 to 30s and up to 35s, plums 12s to 26s, cherries 20s to 32s, grapes 1s 4d to 2s 1d per lb, peas 1s 3d to 1s 6d, beans 1d to 1s 9d, cabbage 20s to 25s per bag, tomatoes 10s to 20s per half bushel case, cucumbers 10s to 16s, lettuce 8s to 14s, carrots 2d to 5d per lb, beetroot 1s to 2s 6d, parsnips and sugar 3d to 1s per lb, sweet 10s to 14s, swedes 16s to 30s per cwt, marrows 10s to 16s, rhubarb 2s to 4s.
A festive scene evokes a ginger pop and bullseye selling candy man in a snowy village, as children crowd the wooden tray and a penny buys sweets. Santa’s Helper mood blends with daily chores and holiday cheer as the narrator yearns for treats and yuletide joy.
A little girl visiting with her mother grows restless. The child asks to interrupt but the mother insists on finishing. The dialogue ends with an exchanges about checking a butcher’s shop where the child reports seeing pig’s feet and the butcher wearing a Swati.
Brisbane stock notes show Australian Stock 3 percent yields from 1963 to 1965 with prices between £87 and £101, CEL 41 percent 1961 at £93/10, and assorted listings for Castlemaine Hincock London Del Belp Kingston Mt Coolon and others with varied prices and dates.
United States accuses a Russian official of espionage and the United Nations Secretariat confirms the dismissal of Nikolai Skvortsov, an assistant secretary general confidant, after discussions involving Secretary-General Trygve Lie and Constantin Zinchenko. The incident follows internal reviews and international pressure.
Nationalisation sparked a near shutdown as the country’s largest coalfield idled. Over 100,000 workers were out after a nationwide strike by 479 colliery winders at 83 pits, with demands for a 3 day wage increase on a 26/11 basis.
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