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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 05, 1922
Page
2
Rates for subscribers to the Cobram exchange are listed with a daily charge and additional fees for long distance speaking from the bureau. The notice outlines charges for various services and emphasizes changes in cost.
A fragmented OCR of a local notices page lists numerous businesses, auctions, and services with scattered addresses and names such as Kennedy, McLellan Pty, Varroeeyah Motors, Crllander & Co, and Sydney street Bobestanen. The text also references private hospitals, hotels, printers, tailors, and auctioneers, indicating a broad catalog of local commerce and community services.
A garbled notice advertises bringing wheat to the Cobrem Nour Mill for grinding. It mentions a price per brabel but the unit and details are unclear. The text includes corrupted names and places, reflecting OCR damage and local trade terminology.
The document outlines the Tangamah Shire creation on May 16 1878 with later divisions and parishes, listing ridings Cobram Katamatite Yarra sreh and Youanwite, population 5468 over 602 square miles. It includes Commonwealth divisions state electoral districts and notes officials, council officers, and services for Tongamah Cobram Yarrawonga and surrounding parishes.
Cobram Court of Petty Sessions notes monthly attendance by Rogers. Local Justices include Kennedy, Grant, Funshion, Browne, Wadewoo, Scott, Adame. Cobram Waterworks meets every second month. Church listings include Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist. Local banks and institutes named with managers and secretaries. Community groups feature Farmers Union, Births list, Progress Association, Croquet Club, and School headteacher.
In the recent notice Bojvisar and collector J Carruthers are identified alongside postmaster D Little and bant ionmaster H Noy in the municipal power project briefing.
A dense OCR readout lists numerous local figures and positions across banks, institutes, associations, churches, and clubs. It names presidents secretaries chairmen and registrars including A W Blake D B MilLeod J Bradacreet Rev P Nye Rev A Edwards Rev P Heffernan A Taylor J Hugher W Doherty H Stoneham P J Whitty Don McLess M O Kane T Quinlan H L Elliott J Sidebottom D Ashton C Timothy and T Thompson among others. It appears to be a civic roll call or directory of offices and contact roles within a district community group.
The text outlines a method to compute tank volume by summing top and bottom areas, four times the middle area minus eight, then multiplying by depth. It provides rough area figures and a division by 27 to yield cubic yards, with prior notes on bottom breadth and length deductions to reach final bottom dimensions.
The instructions describe calculating timber volume by taking length and width of the orange area between bottom and eaves, multiplying by height to eaves, and for the tower area at the eaves multiplying by half the height to the ridge. It notes that weight can be found by measuring cube contents of the stump or by computing cube foot height.
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