"Rural Life"., 1945-1946

No.67. 20 Jan.; No.69, 17 March; No.70, 14 April; No.71, 19 May.

Subsequent issues present are in changed format, set up and printed “by the Publishers, P. Page Printing and Distributing Co. Pty. Ltd., 174 Queen Street, Melbourne. From a 4-page newspaper it becomes a 16 pp. periodical, published as before monthly, but at a charge of 3d. The editorial introducing the new “Rural Life” and setting out its aims, explains that the four-page production, all that they could produce to date, had been unsatisfactory both to readers and contributors. Once designed primarily for men, the paper “now includes women’s and children’s sections as well”. The Company of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament (Grey Sisters) are collaborating in producing a page, “The Mother and Her Child”.

July 1945. Contents are listed on this and later issues as: Editorials, Parliamentary Digest, Foreign News, Rural Opinion, Information Page, N.C.R.M. News, For Your Bookshelves, Women’s Affairs, Mothercraft and Child Problems. August [inside front cover “July 1945”]; Sept.; November; Dec.

1946

January; February; March; April (back page torn with signs of an attempt to mend with cellotape); May; July; September; October (2 copies).