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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 06, 1938
Page
1
Postage charges listed for thin use of Toe Courier to Australia and New Zealand and to United Kingdom via France. Also rates to United States and to 10 colonies or communities with 34 pence unit. Rates detailed under Allied route.
January 6 appears in a brief clipped line with unreadable names and places. The readable fragment lists a Thursday date and a few garbled words, suggesting a local item or notice with limited detail.
Berigan Shire Council meets next Monday with notes on Cobram Mooroopna hospital donors and local carters. Heat records spike across Cobram Yarrawonga and Goulburn Valley with highs above 100 degrees and a 118 degree mark at Yarrawegan North. Christmas Day and New Year saw extreme heat. two cars collided near Murchison East, causing no injuries. Notables visiting include retired locals and entertainers. a long distance wager echoes past barrow pushes, reflecting local life and events.
The Cobram Lawn Tennis Club Christmas tournament drew 206 players including many Melbourne A grade stars. Competitions ran smoothly with strong crowds praising the courts, as Simpson Trethowan reclaimed the doubles title 6-1 6-4, and Simpson won the Men’s District Singles 6-4 8-4. Flaherty took the Men’s Singles Championship in three sets, while Miss Hiskins won the Women’s Singles Handicap. Mixed Doubles went to Mr and Mrs Priestly, and Strong claimed the Men’s Special Singles. Final rounds featured top bouts among Cussen, Westward, O’Kane, and Mawhinney with tense scores throughout.
Tennis reports list mixed doubles results with Polinelli and Hiskins advancing to finals, Priestly winning the men’s singles handicap rounds, and Strong beating Brown in the final. Multiple rounds detail scores for singles and doubles across many players including Goulding Polinelli, O Kane, Priestly, Webb, and Reynolds.
Matches in the northern and southern divisions of the Numurkah Cobram Association recommence on Saturday following a five week adjournment for harvest operations.
Constable Sam Srelt, formerly a Barooga cricketer and prominent St Kilda footballer, won the Maryborough Gift on New Year Day. He started from the 13 yard mark and posted a time of 11.4 seconds.
On New Year’s Day the Shepparton Gun Club held its annual Gala Championship drawing shooters from the North East and Murray Valley. Forty seven competitors vied for a trophy and seventy pounds in sweepstakes. Nineteen stopped on the first nomination in 15 rounds while thirteen pressed on with a second nomination. The trophy was shared among seven shooters on the first nomination Cooper Benalla Record Beechworth Cross Kyabram Matheson Bendigo George Albury Jordan Shepparton M Scott Cobram. Scott fired 14 with the first barrel and used the second only once.
A Cobram deputation of stockmen and graziers met Victorian Railways Live Stock Agent Mr Roberts and foreman Mr Fleming to press for urgent general repairs to the Cobram trucking yards. Spokesman A R Wadeson stated the work was needed at once. Roberts promised immediate action.
Elsternwick resident Mr E E Woolford is named post master in Cobram. Mr A Dunleavy recovers well after recent Lisieux Hospital operation. Mr H Ratcliffe injured by hammer strike while sleeper chewing, tendons damaged in left hand as hammer slipped and struck it.
Donations totaling various sums were received by the Cobram Tennis Club for its annual tournament. Contributors include Grand Central Hotel, H. D. Hay, Cobram branch ASSILLA, Brown U Corke & Co, W. Adams and Son Pry Ltd, A McPherson and Son, L. Grant, A. Gemmall, Lyons, Rome res. MVS, G. Hoste, S. J. Beste, Miss Wyatt and Miss Price, with amounts ranging from 4 shillings 8 pence to 10 shillings 8 pence and higher.
At a school concert President M Roberts announced promotions and transfers for Miss Chambers to Hamilton and Mr Young to Heywood, with Miss Adams also honored. In Yarravonga, Mrs Kelly of Terminus Hotel celebrated with friends, while Mr Bailliean received a pipes case for service. Petty Session clerk Watts retires after three years, and H W Tuck led a petition for road improvements. An accident on a farm caused a horse to bolt. a stable alert described wandering stock causing garden damage in Berrigan.
Star radiant musical romance previews a snow bound spectacle starring Sonja Heme as a Swiss innkeeper daughter training for Olympic skating. Adolphe Menjou Jean Hersholt Ned Sparks Ritz Brothers Arline Judge Borrah Minevitch and others star in a lavish ice revue with Don Ameche investigating a neighborhood mystery.
Fragmentary notice honoring a local resident from Somerset Massachusetts with uncertain details. Readable bits indicate a slight reference to age around 40 and mentions of family or community connections. The legibility is poor, making full facts unclear.
The article details the Yarrawonga Weir project with an earth dam and continuous steel sheet piling, aiming for completion within the year. It notes the height of the earth dam, excavation depths, and ongoing foundation work as the main construction progresses under New South Wales authorities.
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