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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 27, 1933
Page
1
Unclear OCR text mentions a Cobram bank opening and issues with accounts. Fragments reference delays, deposits, and possible customer confusion. No clear names, dates, or concrete outcomes can be confirmed from the readable portions.
April 29 Important Meeting at St Josephs Hall May 2 Public Meeting Parish Ball July 8 Numarkeh Footballers Bail event listings announce upcoming gatherings and a sports-related matter with dates and venues.
Local report notes Anzac Day banding by the 1st Cobram troop Boy Scouts at Berrigan Tocumwal and Finley services. It covers Cobram Agricultural Society meeting at Mechanics Institute, a Nutumrkal fallow competition leaders, Girl Guides' Wangaratta visitors enrolling five new members, and heavy frost damaging tobacco with extensive leaf losses. Also discusses rainfall history, drought fears, and past years' totals.
The Tungamah Shire council will hold its monthly meeting next Monday May 1. A public meeting to discuss Mocroopua Hospital appeals will be held in Barooga Parish Hall at 5 pm on Tuesday May 2. General Sir Harry Chauvel announced 25 000 soldiers took part in the Actic Day march to Melbourne. A Barooga fire burned about 150 acres before control. Mrs Dryden died at Berrigan on 1dth inst. Eugene min K C will visit Cobram Saturday night to speak at St Joseph's Hall. Amended Murray River Agreement is in abeyance pending NSW ministry confirmation. construction continues with landholder responses indicating broad support.
On Saturday evening Mr Jack Hanrahan of Cobram East had his arm broken when kicked by a horse. Mrs McLean of Naring is recovering from serious injuries. Bishop McCarthy will celebrate his golden jubilee at Bendigo on May 3 with church dignitaries. Returning from Shepparton, Mr H McCluskey of Strathworth and Mr G Jackson of Yalca were in a car crash. McCluskey suffered two severed arteries and windscreen injuries, Jackson chest injuries. Patients are in hospital.
About 15 acres of pasture burned on the properties of Mr J Mortimer and Mrs Spence after a fire spread from Mr Mortimer’s land. Strathmerton and Ketunga Bush Fire Brigades aided by neighbours saved Mr Morris’s homestead. Victoria Lake, once a swamp, has become a wildfowl sanctuary near the southern end as canes are removed. The council plans improvements along the banks with willow trees and an island diving platform, plus a rowing club clubhouse proposal. A census information organization will gather data for the June 30 Commonwealth census, targeting about 10,000 people for survey days.
On Tuesday April 25 the Anzac Day commemorations were held across the Commonwealth. In Cobram the Mechanics Institute service featured the Cobram Troop of Girl Guides and a parade of local returned soldiers. Rev Patterson led prayers and readings, with Kipling and Recessional hymns, followed by an address recalling wartime sacrifice and the Anzac spirit. The service closed after the National Anthem and a moment of silence, with Bene diction by Rev Boquest. The piece also notes railway capital and public debt discussions tied to the era.
A delegates meeting at the Mechanics Institute heard club representation and voted to appoint Mesis Betts as secretary at £20. Debate covered residency for players, tribunal scope, trial travels, benefit matches for Mooroopna Hospital, pennant costs, and Umpire appointments while noting a later personal item about Mrs P. C. Furphy’s London visit and a film featuring Mr J I Trevaskis.
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