10 Apr 1924
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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 10, 1924
Page
1
A local retailer advertises a bankrupt stock sale offering goods at the purchase price to clear space for new season merchandise. The note promises to pay freight on all country orders and emphasizes selling under cost to customers.
Mr Wm Adams has been elected chairman of Cobram Water Trust. Sleeper hewers are sought for the Deniliquin Moama line with free railway passes offered. Cobram ANA wins 1923 greatest increased membership for Group I. Cobram show grounds lease up at H Tuck’s sale next Tuesday. Strathmerton FC to hold a ball on April 3 with fine arrangements. Edward McGrady’s son qualifies as solicitor in NSW. Sympathy extended to Cobram family over Joyce Eileen Jordan’s death. Dr E Burwood to relocate to the metropolis from Berrigan. A Lalalty concert to aid the Methodist Church organ fund with tickets 1/6. Strathmerton to honor late President F Pinnuck at a smoke social on 24. Reed succeeds Pinnuck as president. Visioned inspections and soldier settler visits planned in Cobram district. Artistes tour Cobram May 6 with Norman Lesh, Charles Bennett, Cecil Ramsdale, Steele Rudd sketches, Austin Anderson, Paul Debur, Fred Tilley. Local arrangements by W S Mitchell and F H Ross. Breen family mourning Mr Thomas Mathew Breen of Yarraweyah dies suddenly aged 84. Funeral at Cobram East with burial service led by Father Ellis.
News notes outline plans to celebrate May Day in Melbourne similar to prewar demonstrations. The War Gratuity Loan total was announced at £11,207,093 by Treasurer Dr Page. Jerilderie Shire seeks a £5,000 loan to electrify waterworks in construction.
At a Cobram A P Association meeting on Saturday afternoon the group agreed to hire the Japanese Village Barry Jaggers Co for Show week. W R Birks will judge the fallow and crop competition and speak on a ball trip. Brentnall's four-instrument orchestra will be engaged. Collectors and ticket sellers were appointed across Yarroweyah North Cobram and nearby districts with several named individuals assigned to each locale.
Orchard owners in town and district act to halt the Mediterranean fruit fly spread. Instructions urge removal of infested fruit and trees, burial or burning, shallow cultivation, timely picking of peaches quinces apples pears figs and colored oranges before April 1st 1924, with caution to avoid missing any named fruit. Cooperation is essential as laxity may allow the pest to establish. spraying and trapping may follow per district supervisor.
Wonderscope Pictures screens Westward Bound next Saturday night with Ralph Lewis as the hero. A switch tender saves Esther Buckley as a rival fires a signal creating a forest blaze that halts a midnight express. Romantic entanglements involve Esther and Johnny Buckley amid a cast including Raymond McKim and Jack Smith. Other features include The Dust Flower The Haunted Castle Such Is Life among the Idlers of Paris and the Gazette.
Berrigan Shire Council discusses correspondence with the Front Shires Association on carelessness in fire act administration, road funding claims, tree and limb issues on Barooga reserve, boundary bridge costs, reopening roads, poundkeeper complaints, and requests to permit offices, petrol store, telegraph line crossing, and haulage plant prospects. Engineer reports form forming and re forming work and gravel tender considerations.
The fragment mentions a council or group planning an athletic sports program with prize money and a tableaux display. It references a meeting calendar around November extending to 17th, with mentions of representatives, a motor-bears route, a broken axe episode, and invitations to prominent individuals for celebrations.
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