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Newspaper
Benalla Ensign
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 31, 1951
Page
1
The council discussed a dog menace in the town centre and proposed a £500 per year salary for a full time municipal worker. Measures include kennels for impounded dogs and advertising for the position while negotiating with the Shire on a joint dog-management arrangement.
The engagement of Nancy, younger daughter of Mrs. Ann Cook of 19 Nixon Street Benalla and the late Mr. O W Jarick to John Oliver William, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. E J Richards of Dumbalk South Gippsland, is announced.
A local effort in the central portion town addresses welfare for mothers and newborns. Community leaders propose support measures to improve health and safety for families amid concerns over welfare and child well being.
The Benalla Red Cross appeals for 70 blood donors for the Red Cross Blood Transfusion mobile unit visiting Benalla on June 21. Stationed at the C W A Hall Bridge Street the unit will be led by Dr Joan Melville with eight staff. Appointments are organized by Mrs B Briggs president and Miss D Scholes secretary with volunteers urged to contact them.
Mr Sol Cocks owner driver of the utility plus three football players and a lady supporter escaped injury when the vehicle returning from the Thoona match overturned near Mr Gordon's gate on Thoona road about 5 45 pm. The car veered and pancaked in loose ground trapping no one. Mrs Leonard and Mr Cocks escaped through a window and were unhurt. Two men in the tray Jack McFarlane and R McArthur also walked away uninjured.
UNCURK investigators meet a Korean farmer in his rice paddy where the ploughshare is steel and spade like, breaking soil rather than turning it. Plough and harness are home made as the mission, aided by an interpreter, documents local farming methods.
The Public Relations and Betterment Board released a map of North East Victoria that excluded Benalla, prompting protests from Mr. Thwaites North East Tourist Association and Benalla, Violet Town and Euroa public bodies. Local council notes omitted Benalla’s public office needs and promises by the Minister for Public Works remain unfulfilled, with calls to lodge a protest and seek better parliamentary representation.
Hospital manager Alexander presents a seven point reply on who pays for treatment of migrants in the Benalla Migrant Camp. He cites Health Act duties, pre and post 1950 government responsibility, and invoices totalling £82 11 and £75 6 7T. He notes Wodonga Shire payment for infectious disease care from Bonegilla Camp and Wangaratta Hospital’s stance on costs and inter-council agreements.
Mr J Dobson helped secure a full day for the sheep dog trials at the A. anil P. Society meeting. Prize money of 12 pounds for first, 7 for second, 3 for third, plus 5 and 2 for race class winners was approved, with calls for broader entries and support from authorities to resolve the organization.
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