This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Benalla Ensign
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 25, 1952
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a show, mentions places like NSW and Belfast, cites 1960 timing, and refers to participants such as Henry and Salter. Details are garbled, with many illegible phrases, numbers, and unclear events.
Benalla rider seized victory at Seymour with the winner clocking clear fastest time and maintaining lead from start to finish. The field included Australian junior road champion N Stevens who failed to post the fastest time, beaten by two rivals. Local cycling club announces a 15 mile event on Saturday.
The Benalla stock market report notes steady prices from prior rates with strong demand from local and metropolitan buyers. Penning of cattle varied in quality but overall prices held, while a school fete event featured a Doll Show, prize awards, and community stalls opening with Mayor and headteacher in attendance.
At Benalla on Tuesday, September, George Kohineon and Son offered a good penning of bacon and calves. Pigs totaled 180 with heavy and medium bacon in large share while pork was lighter. Local and export buyers showed strong interest and prices moved up from previous rates. Calves sold well with heavy bacon calves dearer by up to 2 shillings. light and underfed calves moved at previous rates. Prices and listings from local sellers followed, including numerous named buyers and prices across bacon, sow, and calf lots.
At Benalla saleyard on Monday September 22 1952 a notable cattle sale drew 400 district cattle for exporters and retailers from Mansfield Seymour Euro Melbourne Shepparton and nearby towns Heavy competition yielded an average around £28 per head with a top batch of Hereford bullocks fetching £49 6s per head Calf calves and various shorthorn Aberdeen and cross bred lots sold at prices from £20 to £38 17s 6d per head Names include Mr Bunworth of Bracvalnk and J Cochineas along with A Harris and R T Hill among others with lots ranging from store to forward condition and years aged 2 3 averaging sellers figures
Riverina League defeated Wann locals last weekend in a clash at Wann. Only seven Firsts players joined the trip while Genalla fields largely Records and Thirds players. Riverina won by ten to twelve on fouls and dominated proceedings.
Bullocks with Dalgety and Caline report their opening sale at Benalla on Friday September 19 featuring 940 high quality cattle. Buyers from Melbourne and regional towns attended as prices for store cattle held firm though general Level dipped slightly due to Melbourne indecisiveness. Hereford and Merino lines show strong competition with quotes ranging from 20 to 90 pounds for various classes.
At its annual meeting St Andrew's Tennis Club decided to enter a team in the Benalla Hardcourt Association. Rev A McLean was reelected president with vice presidents M Roberty and Rt Goulding, secretary and treasurer Ro Bail. No fixed date was set for one nine day.
Farmers are advised to contact for concrete work at 26 Benson Street Benalla. Phone Benalla 549. The notice promotes reinforced and precast estimates and work undertaken anywhere.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.