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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 29, 1919
Page
4
The readable text shows a collage of store names and items including clothing shops, drapery and accessories, wines and wares, tailoring, and various miscellaneous businesses. It resembles a street directory or advertisement page with many garbled names and partial phrases.
A detailed report of a Mooragag meeting called by the Tatong Railway Trust to discuss tax rates and land issues connected with a £5000 loan for land purchases. Speakers criticized rate burdens, proposed forming a Tatong Railway Trust Taxpayers association, and debated buying out debentures to ease debt. A committee was appointed to pursue the plan and a membership fee proposal was set.
A fragment echoes an advertisement style praising Doan's Backache Kidney Pills as a cure for backache and kidney trouble. It includes a testimonial from Mrs. L Brennan of Bonalla West mentioning relief after use and directs readers to purchase from Foster-M’Clellan Co, Sydney, with pricing and a note on other remedies.
District items report valedictories for Mrs K Tacay and others, local schooling plans for Major Plains, and a move to relocate Nalloga State School. Shire matters include a road loan proposal, arms of the secretary salary rise, and a pond of community activity at Wangaratta with Crown Road Board aid sought for repairs. Deaths noted include two farmers in Longwood and Rev J Wartacott. influenza prompted closure of public halls for two weeks.
Progress on the Wohnfield to Tolmie route, overseen by the Country Roads Board, shows 60 men at work with predicted hiring of more due to weather. The grade will stay near 1 to 20 as the road runs along hill sides following a prior survey toward Mabutkah, a 20 mile link. Only one mile required private land. rest uses Crown lands and abandoned selections. The project preserves early settler losses from lack of roads and aims to connect Whitfield to Melbourne via a unique Mae held corridor, with further links to Wangaratta and the main north east road planned.
Doo kie fair at Dookie drawn large crowd from 20 mile radius with Melbourne Seymour Wesley buyers. Pigs 160 head, 1500 sheep and 125 cattle sold briskly to eager purchasers. prices above owners expectations. W Wells of Matuku New Zealand set a whistling wool weight record with 447 Romneys.
A wide range of short items notes £5 notes in circulation in the Riverina, court actions, ship orders, fatalities, and local incidents. The report mentions the Sydney divorce court decrees, nine new cargo vessels in the Commonwealth program, personnel retirements, a fatal mining accident, a perfume of economic data, and several local crime and health items.
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