26 Mar 1931
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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 26, 1931
Page
1
Church notices list services at St Margaret's Cobram St Aidan's Strathmerton and local Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Holy Communion and Matins announced with timings Sunday March 29 and midweek services. Rev Douglas Blake and Rev C F Gribble named as rectors.
Local notices report a Baronge euchre party and dance at the Parish Hall next Friday with prizes trophies and music plus supper. A special excursion to Melbourne Friday 10 April for Scouts families attends the World Chief Scout event with return fares detailed.
The Governor of Victoria will be present at the returned soldiers reunion held at Yarrawonga on April 15. Mr Brown of the State Auditor's department is in Cobram to secure wool. A local resident, Mrs Sheehan of Sharp Street Yarrawonga, fractured two ribs and bruised her knee and shoulder in a fall.
A blaze destroyed the Momalong Hotel in Berrigan after an early morning outbreak. A gas cylinder explosion fatally wounded Sergeant Whiteley and his dog, with several bystanders including Elaine Dawson and Miss McGee hospitalized. The hotel was owned by A. J. Allen.
A Victorian Premier Hon E Hogan and party visited Cobram with a large irrigation focus. Local leaders urged early start on Yarrawonga Weir channels and Hume Weir area work, highlighting water for Cobram Picola and surrounding farms, and urging use of funds for productive canal construction.
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