16 Feb 1945
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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 16, 1945
Page
1
The Cobram Courier reflects on the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester taking Governor General duties, praising wartime unity and the Crown as a symbol of Commonwealth bonding. It stresses solidarity among Britain, Australia, and Empire peoples to face peace and future cooperation.
At a Cobram Scouts Parents Committee gathering on Monday night, attendees discussed a March 9 meeting with scouts from Yarrawonga Numurkah Nathalia and Mulwala to plan a May rally in Cobram. They urged fundraising for a scout hall and approved monthly dances in the Fire Brigade Hall starting March 8.
A reflective column weighs future Germany, postwar housing and food needs, repatriation, and social change. It ponders whether prosperity returns in 10 to 20 years, hints at housing, wages, and civil order, and references Ardennes victory, Moscow, and plans for gratuities amid uncertain times.
Personal Pars Pte K Blavk appointed conductor of an orchestra to tour New South Wales with a concert party to support the Third Victory Loan. New members welcomed at the Comforts Fund meeting. Mesdames Cox O Helin Brooks and Joan holidaying at Bay. W J Mullerick, son of Cobram residents, appointed manager of the Union Bank Donald branch starting Monday.
In memory notices for SRAVE ORT dated February 17 1940 recall a wife and mother cherished by her husband Walter and by her family. The messages express enduring memory and sorrow and include lines about never forgetting her.
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