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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
5
Gardeners learn to reorganize beds by deeper digging while permanent plants are quiet. Move shrubs to better positions, transplant favorites, and improve soil with manure and lime. Pruning timing, division of perennials, and interplanting with annuals keep displays bright. sage, thyme, marjoram, and parsley prove useful in kitchen borders.
A fragment outlines monarchs earnings, noting Zog of Albania and King Boris of Bulgaria received modest sums by comparison to Carol of Romania who, after abdication, returned to claim about £75,000. The piece remarks on luxury, state pomp, and the influence of salaries on national capitals.
A fragmented piece claims women spend about three quarters of an hour per day on vanity, totaling roughly 12 days a year and about a year and a half over a lifetime. It then notes the Windsor wealth, two million pounds a year, and observes kings’ high pay and the constant question of succession influencing royal finances.
Farmers are urged to plant trees for many uses such as windbreaks shade fodder water protection and erosion control. The bulletin promotes plantations as timber fuel and revenue sources with ornamental value and soil conservation, offering directions and a pamphlet from Agriculture Box 3A Sydney.
Readers are invited to order eight choice roses at 1 shilling each or 16 shillings per dozen with free carriage. The offer promotes catalogue prices and includes a money saving note, specifying selections like eight Reds two Pinks one Yellow and a Copper dwarf, with prepaid train options for towns.
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