20 Nov 1919
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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 20, 1919
Page
1
The text presents a jumble of names and phrases with no clear event or context. Readable entities include possible personal names and a place string, but the passage lacks a coherent narrative or outcome to summarize. No verifiable actions or dates are discernible.
A dense, OCR heavy recap outlines meetings in Corowa and surrounding towns. It covers a mayoral succession, rural cooperative actions, license board decisions, wheat pooling for seed, and war gratuity funding debates, with scattered notices about lodges, clubs, and a cinema program.
Me J Curt Stewart, Nationalist candidate for Rehaea, spoke at Cobram chaired by Cr Wadeson. Stewart pledged to oppose the Labor party split and defend Australia after the war, urging support for Nationalist Senate candidates Rowsell Elliott and Mc Guthrie, amid discussion on federation, tariffs, defence, and conscription.
At the annual Retail Chaff and Drain Mercantile Association meeting on Thursday evening the Halway Commissioners faced a pushback against a proposed large per day demurrage charge for unloaded trade. Officials argued it would burden urban traders while awaiting explay positing and private aid indemnity for delays. The discussion touched on irrigation expansion, barley feeding plans, and rabbit control methods as part of local agricultural and urban planning debates.
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