Advertiser – March 1917

8 March 1917 p9
RED CROSS SOCIETY
The latest letters from the commissioners emphasise the great need of socks and all woollen comforts. They also rely upon us for the usual supplies of pyjamas, shorts, undershirts, underpants, sheets, pillowcases, towels, dressing gowns old linen etc. Patterns and particulars may always be obtained from the depot at Government House. It is also proposed to send large quantities of foodstuffs abroad, as food is becoming so scarce in England now…

14 March 1917 p 10
CONCRETE: THE BUILDING MATERIAL OF THE FUTURE
It is practically indestructible; it is fire-proof; it is cheap, owing to maintenance cost being almost nil. Engineers the world over testify to the increasing number of purposes for which concrete is being used with remarkable success…

The outbreak of the war caused ‘Kangaroo’ brand cement to replace a celebrated German brand in this work, with results that prove that Australian manufacturers can turn out as good an article as the best imported…

16 March 1917, p10
MOTORING
‘There is no doubt’, says the ‘Light Car’ [England], ‘that English motor car manufacturers have given little attention to the question of the construction of cars specially suited to colonial conditions, by which is meant places where good roads are few and the highways are but cart tracks… In America, such problems must be met by the manufacturer from necessity, and hence the car standards suit colonial conditions…

17 March 1917 p8
THE RUSSIAN COUP D’ETAT
The startling new comes from Russia of the deposition of the Czar and the establishment of a regency under his brother, the Grand Duke Michael. The coup d’etat is the outcome of a sudden revolution, happily almost bloodless, in which the soldiery sided with the Duma and the populace…

By a wonderful instinct the Russian people have seen in the war the direction in which their liberation tended – the overthrow of Germanism – and with the same energy with which they have been fighting Germanism abroad they have given short shrift to Germanism at home… Successful revolutions have a proverbial tendency to reproduce themselves, and it is with ne easy mind that the German Emperor must be contemplating events on the Neva.

17 March 1917 p8
TOO MUCH DAYLIGHT
By general sentiment the daylight saving scheme stands condemned. No one will say that it has not been tried under the most favourable conditions, of the objections raised to it would have been gravely accentuated had fate not decreed that the change should be inaugurated in a summer distinguished among Australian summers by its mildness. Had the sun blazed with its wonted fierceness the prolongation of daylight would have rendered the lives of many adults and most children almost unbearable…

21 March 1917 p6
AMERICA ARMING
In the light of the news of the past day or two the hitherto sluggish waters of popular feeling in America may fairly be regarded as having set in a strong flood tide against Germany…

Late in the day as it may be, repeated kicks have stirred the American people to assert their dignity and aspire to vengeance; and now that the hope is gone that anything can be done by pacific means to stop the deliberate destruction of American lives and property… America is at last driven to join issue with Germany and match guns with guns and men with men.

29 March 1917 p6
UNSHEATHED HATPINS
The city by-law, having fits its object the prevention of the danger from protruding hatpin points, does not appear to have been as vigorously administered lately as was the case when it first came into operation about four years ago… The Mayor said the attention of the police would be directed to the matter…