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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 09, 1945
Page
1
The Cobram Courier comments on the debt to early explorers and settlers, urging Australians to preserve the pioneering spirit amid social services and subsidies. It warns that plans to nationalise interstate air transport and regulate banking threaten individual enterprise and freedom, potentially hobbling the nation’s founding traits.
Mr D J Matthews of Cobram State Savings Bank is on casual leave with I E A John covering. Rev L G Rose succeeds Rev S G Davis as head of the Numurkah Cobram Church of England parish and will be inducted Feb 13 at 7 30 pm by Bishop T M Armour. N J Carter of Berrigan Shire Council, RA AF veteran, is released to resume duties. Births marriages and deaths noted with partial names.
At the Strathmerton branch annual meeting D R Henderson was elected President with J V Bouchier and R Laidlaw as vice presidents and M Ryan as secretary. Delegates include Henderson Laidlaw F Wilson Raspden and Reynolds on the conference slate. The retiring president C Crawford lamented member apathy.
A column laments bureaucratic incompetence and war rhetoric while noting British sentiment turning right. It references Berlin bombings and German mindsets, praises charity from Belgian children, and mentions the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester in Canberra. The piece closes recalling Lord Beaverbrook.
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