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Purchasing new hearing aids? A guide to making an informed decision for a pair and hearing aids with established, you may find that you IF your family and friends are additional features to assist the way need hearing aids. In the last 12 commenting about your hearing, you hear when there are competing months, hearing aid technology then this article will help guide background noises can cost up to has progressed significantly. They your next steps to better hearing $9-14,000, depending on where are able to connect to your mobile and hopefully make it a pleasant you go. phones so that you can hear the journey along the way. The difference in hearing aid caller’s voice straight into your The first step is to get your cost between clinics is largely due ears. They can also be rechargeable hearing assessed. A hearing to location overheads and staff and they have gotten even smaller assessment provides a commissions. There are clinics that than ever. comprehensive measurement of NEPEAN is offering significantly reduce their prices Furthermore, you may be eligible your hearingHearing along with advice free tests and rating your Hearing for Government assistance for your as they concentrate on the initial tohearing help manage your hearing for Your (for the over 40’s). sale and forgo the ongoing care hearing aids if you are a Pensioner, needs andAge other hearing related The number of Australians who required to manage the hearing a Veteran or have a history of symptoms (for example tinnitus are Meniere’s hearing impaired is increasing aids. Remember that hearing aids working in industrial noise. Basic and disease). because of hearing levels are should not just work for now, but hearing aids start from $1,400 Once your • the Ageing Population –we are living longer • excessive Noise - in the workplace and high level music Hearing loss is often described as the ‘invisible disability’. People often wait for 5-10 years before they seek help. Hearing loss may also be a contributing factor in the speed of onset of dementia. The degree of Nepean Hearing is an loss is also correlated to the risk of independently owned clinic and Alzheimer’s disease. It is important Award-winning service the audiologists are University of to know about your hearing. 30-day trials, no cost & obligation free trained. Many people ignore thehearing signs of aidMelbourne For hearing screenings our main hearing loss, which include turning Helping Pensioners, Veterans, office is locatedWorksafe, across the roadand from Privates the TV or stereo up so loud that Frankston Hospital at 13 Hastings others complain, frequently needing Free hearing aids for Pensioners* Road, Frankston, phone: 9783 7520. to ask others to repeat themselves and We are also located at: not being able to hear properly on the 171 Camms Road, Cranbourne, telephone. Constant ringing is also phone: 5966 1117, and another warning sign of hearing loss. Hastings Community Health As technology advances, many 185 High Street Hastings, people with hearing loss benefit from phone: 97837520. hearing aids. These innovations have Take advantage of the free hearing made a positive *subject difference the waycriteria through to in eligibility the Australian Pension Scheme. test offered by Nepean Hearing to they can communicate and enjoy ensure your hearing istoatcall itsme optimum. their lives. Please cut this out as a reminder
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100 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK...
Free hearing Edward Meldrum writes about the fall of Damascus tests to Senior Say What?.. during Seniors Week
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn THE following letter was received by Mrs Meldrum, of Somerville, from her son Edward, on active service in Damascus: I have not had much time for letter writing lately. I don’t think anyone had an idea of what this stunt was going to be like. All thought we would strike some stiff fighting. We started off one night and got within a few miles of the front line, unsaddled for the night and were let into the know of what was going to be done in the morning. We were all awake waiting for the guns to open up, which they did a while before daylight. The bombardment was terrific while it lasted. The next thing we heard was cheers from the infantry, when they charged and broke through the Turkish line. We then waited till we got orders to be ready to move in quarter of an hour. We were set off at a fast pace which lasted well into the night. The only Turks we saw were prisoners. After a few hours spell were off, and travelled until midday the next day, arriving at a place just too late to see a charge made by the Indian Cavalry Brigade, which resulted in the capture of over a thousand prisoners. We stayed at this place for a few hours to feed the horses and ourselves, and then received our marching orders which were to travel twelve miles over very rough country, and capture the general Headquarters of the Turks. The distance was covered in an hour and ten minutes, a resulted in the capture of eight thousand prisoners
by a thousand of our boys, with only about half a dozen wounded men on our side. This gave me some idea of what the morale of the enemy was like. In one place I saw four men capture over seven hundred Turks and Germans. It seemed queer to see them give in with very little resistance, just like a flock of sheep. The next few days found us still travelling, and collecting prisoners. One night we rode through Nazareth and on to the Sea of Gallilee, and had a borzer time giving the horses and ourselves a much needed wash, after which we moved off again, and were held up for a few hours at the Jordon, as the Turks had blown up the bridges and wore holding the opposite side pretty strong with machine guns, which made crossing rather difficult. Our artillery, in the meantime, had drawn into position and opened up at a target even the gunners could see, so you may imagine what work they did. About dark our regiment forded the river, and cleared the opposite bank of what enemy was left. We all moved on again and up a high hill, covered with big boulders and not even a goat track, and as dark as pitch we reached the top after a few hours climb. At day break we halted till midday and by this time most were rather saddle weary and took advantage to lie at full length on the ground, or rather rock and thistles of which there were plenty. At four o’clock we unsaddled and had tea, when word came to move on six miles. We had a days rest there and were off again to Damascus.
That night we were held up by the Germans, with a lot of machine guns. They had a beautiful position and hard to locate, so it took some time to clear the road. With all their commanding position, all the damage done to us was five horses killed. We captured the Germans and their machine guns also two field guns. By this time it was daylight and fast moving was the order of the day. During the afternoon we came in sight of the outer forts of Damascus. This brigade had nothing to do with them so we worked round their flank. It was here that I saw the charge by our Australian boys and resulted in the capture of the forts. It was a great sight to see and they had few casualties. We were now within sight of the city and our brigade was playing havoc with the retreating enemy. We camped that night in the hills and I got more thistle pricks than I could count, but all the same I slept until the next morning. We moved on to the place where our machine guns had been at work. I never wish to see again such a dreadful sight, the roads were simply blocked up with waggons, horses and men wounded and dead; it was too awful for words. We then had the honor of being the first troops through Damascus, which is a beautiful city, but as we only rode through we didn’t have much chance of seeing things. We received a great welcome by the inhabitants, who lined the streets and cheered all the time. Some standing on the balconies threw scent over the boys, and grapes, figs and tomatoes were handed to us
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as we rode by, but like most of good The Education department has been things here they came to a finish. notified by the Railway department We left the city and came on to that tickets at holiday excursion fares about 3 thousand more enemy, who will be on issue from 11th December took a day and a half to collect. to 2nd January inclusive, available for Personalised Service, Personalised Products We then came back through the city return until 4th February. at night We are resting at present a *** few Did miles out of Damascus, waiting to JUST after lunch hour, on Thursday, you know that many audiologists are see if Turkey has had enough. as the Frankston and Hastings council *** was about resume its sitting, Cr not independent, and rely on tocommissions OWING to the price of chaff havLongmuir received word that his son, only oneGeorge, supplier? ing risen, members from of the Southern had died in the Tenth General Suburban Master Carriers Association Hospital, England, from influenza and have decided to increase theHearing, price of bronchial pneumonia. At Nepean we are proud to sand from Monday Frankston sand General regret was expressed at the will be 3dbe a load extra, and sand thecouncil table. able to pit offer latest technical 6d a load extra. The President said the council innovations fromis the industry, regardless The incidence of the increase deeply sympathised with Cr and based on chaff at £5 a ton. For every Mrs Longmuir in their affliction, and of the manufacturer. rise of 30s in the price of chaff, though dead, the deeds of their son, the price of Frankston sand will be would live for ever. offer personalised service increased We by 3d, and pit sand by 6d He moved that the and council adjourn a load. for a quarter of an hour, as a mark of personalised Callto Cr usLongmuir. today and The present price of chaff products. is £6 10s respect a ton.book The difference the charges Crassessment Oates said that not only the yourin free hearing and of the two kinds of sand is accounted council but the whole community for by the fact sure that Frankston sand is wouldthe deeplyright sympathise with Cr. make you’re getting device. carried by rail close to the place of deLongmuir. livery whilst pit sand has to be carted The motion was carried in silence, a considerable distance. the members standing. *** After being rejected twice the MESSRS T. R. B. Morton and Son deceased was accepted the third time, report having sold, through J L. and has seen some stirring times. Parkes, one of their auctioneers, acres He was on the Ballarat when it was at the Tyabb railway station (cleaned torpedoed, and about twelve months and fenced) on account of Mr A. S. ago was badly gassed. Krerouse, at a satisfactory price. The last news his father had from *** him was that he was better, and exSTATE schools will close for the pected to be at the front again shortly. Christmas vacation on 20th December The flags in Sommerville were and will resume on 3rd February. flown half mast during the afternoon Head teachers of high schools have in token of sympathy. been advised that they may use their *** discretion in the closing of schools From the pages of the Mornington after 13th December. Standard, 7 December 1918
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