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Fix this textAUSTRALIAN BASE DEPOTS
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Fix this textVol. 1 No. 23. SUNDAY 19 lh JANUARY 1919 Price ONE PENNY
Fix this textDemobilising Australians
Fix this textGOVERNMENTS PROPOSALS STATED
Fix this textLeave for Every Six Months Abroad - 7 1/2 Days
Fix this textLieut-Gen. Monash, Director-General
Fix this text�f Repatriation and Demobilisation, has
Fix this textissued general instruuctions regarding
Fix this textthe pay, allowances, and leave during
Fix this textand after the return to Australia of all
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Fix this textAn overdraft upon the active pay
Fix this textaccount of every soldier of the A.I.F.
Fix this textat the net drawing rate of pay, up to
Fix this texta maximum of 30 days, will be made
Fix this textprior to embarkation from the United
Fix this textKingdom, France, Egypt, or India, a�
Fix this texttlie case may be. This advance is paya-
Fix this textble when the name of the soldier ap-
Fix this textpears upon the boat roll. Provided the
Fix this textnecessary _ credit exists, soldiers may
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Fix this textHO for officers and nurses, �5 for
Fix this textseigeants and higher rank, a,nd. �3 for
Fix this textother ranks. Immediately before disem-
Fix this textbarkation �lO will be paid to soldiers,
Fix this textembarked from: Australia prior to
Fix this text1917, provided the necessary credit ex-
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Fix this textassist the District Paymaster in Austra-
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Fix this textBank agency, free of cost.
Fix this textLeave of absence on full pay and
Fix this textsubsistence at the rate of 3/ a day will
Fix this textbe given upon disembarkation at the ra-
Fix this textle of 74 days for every six months? ser-
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Fix this textbare taken long service furlough abroad
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Fix this textNON=MILITARY EMPLOYMENT
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Fix this textform No 540. These may be obtained
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Fix this textIt is estimated that ultimately 20,000
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Fix this textand of premiums dematided may be ap-
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Fix this textTo the future shipbuilders, engineers,
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Fix this textto get busy and acquire some of the
Fix this texttechnical skill of the old world for the
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Fix this textAustralia likes you, General Pau!
Fix this textThe reason why? It is, you know,
Fix this textBecause you understand a joke,
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Fix this textPer picking up our word, � Bois -Kerre! �
Fix this textTo you we cordially give
Fix this textThat great Australian Adjective;
Fix this textOur other one, a naughty word,
Fix this textWe trust that you have never heard.
Fix this textBut gladly with the French we share
Fix this textThat adjective you call � Bos-kerre! �
Fix this textThe great discovery you?ve made
Fix this textHas nought to do with war or trade,
Fix this textNo truer word than this we?ve spoke,
Fix this textThat Genre al Pan?s a bosker bloke;
Fix this textAnd bosker is your speeches? flow,
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Fix this textAlthough �hois kerre� is French,you say?
Fix this textYou?ve found it in your Rabelais
Fix this textIt?s evident that though polite,
Fix this textYou?ve leam?t to pull our leg all right.
Fix this textWe?ve searched old Rabelais, and there
Fix this textFound bosker things, not � Bos-kerre! �
Fix this textAnd though it seems, maybe, absurb,
Fix this textOur greatest gift is but a ?word.
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Fix this textAustralia?s tout-a-fait Bos-kerre! �
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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