09 Aug 1939
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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 09, 1939
Page
1
The Church of England lists the first Sunday and Sunday morning Holy Communion, evening services at 7 30 pm on the fourth Sunday, and an HC on the fourth Sunday at 9 15 am with Rev. V Williams assisting.
Following a spell of wet weather motorists faced difficulty crossing flood swamped roads. A Tungamah Shire council delegation and a press man toured the area and had to push a stalled car to dry land after deep flood crossings. Ratepayers and councillors debated road conditions, highlighting the tough job of civic representatives amid the rain.
The Monday meeting approved multiple road works and related actions including employing available engineers, fencing Sydney street Cobram, and gravelling roads in Yarraweyah and nearby areas. Requests cover culvert repairs, footpath shaping, tree removal, bridge construction at Muckatah Creek, and improved drainage along several local routes.
The Tungamah Shire Council met to hear Cobram business owners requests for road and drainage work. Residents urged repairs to a shopfront drain and a blocking tree, while others sought proper road access, crossings, and parking land lease terms at Cobram railway station.
At a Monday committee meeting the Cobram Agricultural Society debated showground upgrades including poultry pavilion plans and a 40 by 40 structure. The board also welcomed irrigation guidance from the Commission and discussed visits to irrigation districts and cooperation with the Department of Agriculture.
A record wet spell drenches Cobram with 21 points this week after 223 points last week, halting traffic and delaying farm and irrigation work. Residents report widespread property damage and call for culvert improvements on the Murray Valley Highway south of the railway. The year’s rainfall to date reaches 1997 points, far above last year’s 774 points by end of August.
On Wednesday while returning to Cobram Mr B Goulding’s car skidded on a bridge near Gambie. It zig zagged several times and spun twice before crashing through the fence at the approach. The driver escaped without a scratch, though a fall into deep water would have been possible if the car had gone over.
Nine beneficiaries won a claim in the Banco Court after Sir Frederick Mann delivered a reserved judgment in Dwyer and others v National Trust Executors and Agency Co. of Australasia Ltd and anor. The executors faced a failing residue from Winifred Dunn’s will, the Cobram land sale to Walsh in 1920, and a sequence of financial distress and adjustments with the Farmers' Debts Adjustment Board beginning in 1936.
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