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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 20, 1938
Page
2
A series of matches and contests feature Valee athletes in varied events. Teams include Vallee High and neighboring clubs as they compete at home and away venues, sparking early-season rivalries and local interest.
At a Cobram Tart Club meeting on Thursday evening the group decided to donate 50 percent of forthcoming race profits to charity. Debate split between supporting the After care of Paralysis fund and Mooroonah Hospital, with plans to hold a post-race meeting to choose the recipient and advertise the event.
Mr Doepel of Ballarat recounts twenty years of camping trips across Australia with his wife. He describes Lake Eyre’s vast inland pools near Marree to Oodnadatta, notes the lake lies 200 feet below sea level, and suggests a channel could transform Lake Eyre into an inland sea.
The narrator recalls a trek toward Palm Valley near Alice Springs, describing extreme heat, language barriers with a black tracker, and a fruitless effort to reach the famed oasis. The piece also details explorations of extensive limestone caves on the Nullabor Plain with notes on a well known entrance five miles north of the Madura station and the challenging access via rope descent.
A vented account describes a hunter firing a twelve bore shotgun into a cave to clear bats. The blast deafened the hunter, caused bats to drop to the floor, and the remaining bats fled in a whirring rush.
An unclear excerpt describes investigators moving toward an area with light from an entrance and vague references to a man and crawling figures. The text is garbled, with missing words and illegible phrases, hindering concrete details about location, actions, or outcome.
The text describes flat treeless country and caves where white owls and eagles nest. It notes a cave 80 miles from the sea with a cool sea smelling draught. Blowholes in the Nullabor are linked to caves, with roaring sounds heard before arrival.
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