24 Mar 1938
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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 24, 1938
Page
1
The notice lists Methodist Church service at Cobram 7.30 pm with Mr Grylis and Presbyterian Church service at Nang 5 pm and Cobram 7.0 pm led by Rey W H Patterson and Yarroweyaha.
March events include a meeting at Golf Club and a Working Bee at the Cemetery. April community shopping note and Mechanics' Hall gathering listed. Postage rates for Courier issue Australia to UK via France 2d US and foreign 3d.
Local paper Cobram Courier lists notices and small ads dated Thursday March 17 1928. Entries include figures like 88 dollars and names resembling vendors or buyers, with scattered details typical of classified items and schedule notes from the period.
Local and general notices urge participation in crop and fallow contest entries in Cobram. The Mocion Hospital fundraising appeal features a community singing night at Mechanics Institute on April 4, with supper and music by Gervason's orchestra at a 2/6 to 1/6 price. A cemetery improvement Working Bee is set for March 30 at 10 am. A lecture on citrus growing by My Schiwenhesen of Victoryin Central Citrus Association occurs tonight at Cobram Hotel at 8 pm, urging growers to attend.
The notice reports deaths including Mtoe Wo Maidment of Sandmount and W P O'Dwyer formerly of Warmatta Berrigan district, plus George Duntwin ex Strathmerton at a Diggers Reunion. Also A R McEwen takes over Murray River commission presidency on 22 and tours works with commissioners ending near Yarrawores 10m Friday.
The Minister for Water Supply will visit Cobram around April 7 with a party to inspect the proposed irrigation district. A public meeting that night urges broad attendance to press two main aims: extend Yarrawonga channel into the district and approve a Cobram Water Trust loan to enlarge town mains. Local member JG McDonald has campaigned hard, and the meeting seeks strong public backing to influence the Minister.
A Cobram Agricultural Society committee meeting covered a wide range of topics including a unanimous motion against blocking iron ore exports. Debates on gun club use of showgrounds and ground safety followed, with calls to improve grounds and organize dances and a crop trophy decision.
Voters in the Corowa electorate head to the polls next Saturday after a keen campaign by three candidates. Sitting member C. B. Lethbridge stands as Independent, E. To Kendell represents the United Country Party, and C. A. Walker runs as Independent Labour.
Tenders close on Thursday in March for leasing two land areas of 74 and 319 acres on the Murray Valley Highway two miles from Cobram. Bids are handled by McNamara and Co and AR Wade.
Campbell and Co advertise a clearing sale near Katamatite on Monday April 14 at 1 pm for Mr J H Chenhall who is leaving the district. The property offered includes well-kept plant, good working horses, and high quality wheat and oats. Attendance recommended for a genuine sale.
H W Tuck and Co conducted a successful clearing sale for Mr H Blinchin on the 10th, with a large gathering from surrounding districts. Prices included horses from £10 to £34, mares £21, and young stock up to £21, plant prices £25/10 for a combine and £19 for a header, plus 15 tons of eaten chat sold at £5/1 per watt.
The Cobram sub branch ASSILA held its first Diggers reunion with veterans and civilians joining in community singing after the Last Post and Reveille. Spirits rose as ex servicemen recalled Flanders, Palestine and Gallipoli hardships, praising Senator Major General Brand while the bond of friendship among Diggers stayed strong.
An enthusiastic Cobram meeting formed a direct public appeal for Mooroopna Hospital funds. A young peoples sub committee was appointed to run fund-raising events, with Mr Gemmell presiding and plans for a community singing night as the first function.
The excerpt advises weekly seedling manure for tomatoes nearing peak production and notes carrots may be sown now for late autumn through winter, even leaving them in the ground. It stresses thorough ground preparation, pest clearance by digging and burning, removing pea haulms and bean or potato refuse, and warns against Harlequin bugs. It calls for extensive broccoli cultivation with seed sowing in well drained soil and well prepared beds, plus supportive staking and careful care for good crops.
Fragmentary correspondence discusses a proposed hospital appeal and public support issues. The text references public Watt Wie exception at the sleeper hewers and Moorvypinn Mogull and mentions Auntie BAVE UNIFY with unclear names and dates. Contains garbled names and missing details.
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