Submarine War Fronts Press for Unified Allied Tactics
Washington reports Rear Admiral de Chair of the British mission voices confidence that British and American inventors and combined navies will defeat the submarine threat. He cites near-term naval measures and alliance efforts, while German officials vow continued U-boat advances and claim rising enemy losses amid optimistic Berlin rhetoric.
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Washington
San Francisco Chronicle
R. 8. de Chair
Navy League
de Chair
Combine
Tin
Sweden
Denmark
North Sea
Wolland
Kiel
Heligoland
Germany
Gibraltar
Dlivers
Reuter
Amsterdam
Berlin
Reichstag
Pfleger
von Capelle
The Cost Of Teaching In The State 1916 Figures
The State Education Department lists 7307 teachers on its register to end 1916 with women outnumbering men for the first time. Including trainees the total reaches about 11420, with women far more numerous among assistants. Subsidised schools paid 590 teachers at £50 per pupil attendance, and total salaries for 1910 rose to £1,241,154.
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State Education Department
Hof Terachers
Listening Women in London Hotels Spark Curbs
The Daily Mail cites officers and diplomats warning of alien women of German origin listening and watching in London hotels. Mrs. Houway Cumming calls for immediate enemy alien woman classification, noting about 100 known to police and suggesting they not serve in hotels or as restaurant staff due to potential spying risks.
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London
Daily Mail
Houway Cumming
Frigadier
Limewash recipes reprinted from Hoard's Dairyman
Instructions outline four limewash preparations for exterior and interior use. Techniques include slaking lime in boiling water, mixing with salt, ground rice, white cement, glue, and whiting. thinning with hot water. storage in a portable furnace. and applying hot. Additional formulas add crude carbolic acid, salt, soft soap, and skimmed milk to improve antiseptic and adhesive properties, yielding durable washes.
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Hoard’s Dairyman
Blake
Comment on women workers and alien staff in hotels
A wartime exhortation argues women fit for hotel service should work in laundries or on the land to distance them from temptation. It notes many alien men in hotels and urges removing aliens from hotel control near barracks and government towns, including gar rigan towne and London terminuses.
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Basser
England
Xam
London
Royal Hotel
Wellington
Garrigan
Proportions for Germicidal Wash Additives
The instructions specify adding 1 oz of salt and 2 oz of thin cream per gallon, then to each gallon add 1 oz of alt and 2 oz of brown sugar dissolved in water. To boost germicidal value Nos 3 and 4 suggest adding 4% lb of chloride of lime per 30 gallons of wash.
The Best Bond and War Savings Certificates
An Australian war loan and war savings certificates are presented as premier investments with strong Commonwealth credit. The message urges home production and self denial to fund the war, asserting victory is assured and urging people to buy certificates to support war finance.
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Commonwealth
Australia
Wilkin's Trophy Grat Round Draw Released
The schedule lists June 23 matches All Blacks versus Geurie at Geurie and Wallaroos versus Our Boys at Wellington with Bodangora having a bye. On June 30 All Blacks meet Bodangora and Wellington hosts Our Boys versus Geurie while Geurie has a bye and Wallaroos again has a bye.
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All Blacks
Geurie
Wallaroos
Our Boys
Wellington
Bodangora
Seeds For Present Planting And Varieties Offer
Seeds of sweet peas carnations delphinium dianthus nemesia and more with special varieties and exhibition strains. Includes Spencer sweet peas large flowered and mixed stocks anemone ranunculus and other flowers plus vegetable seeds direct from world growers with catalogue on request.
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Copenhagen
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THE
Reliance Coach Works
Army Barracks
Sules&s
TATE
Suleima
A. Basser
Ferguson & Son
Australian Nurseries
Hurstville
Sydney
Conago
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd
Winchcombe, Carson
Darling Harbor
D. Mitchell & Co., Ltd
cLawence St
Bonnington
Ron Piggins
J. A. Hemphill
Pitt Street
J. A. Dransfield & CO
West Maitlane
Dranafield
OC. J. Shakespeare
Southern Rose
G. P. Wall
Masely-Harris Co., Ltd
Studebaker
Studebaker Corporation of Australasia, Ltd
Elizabeth Street
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