13 Sep 1934
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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 13, 1934
Page
1
Polling day on September 15 for Federal Elections. Annual meeting of Cobram East Cricket Club. Yarroweyall Hospital ball set for the 20th. Working Hee at Show Grounds featuring Glorious Annabelie at the Berrigan Show on the 13th.
The Cobram Agricultural Society hosts a working bee and notes a burglary at Varroweyalt farm. Election speeches broadcast by Mr Moss and Mr WoL Moss Co. The Hospital Ball with Gervasoni Orchestra promises a good time. Mechanics Institute improves seating with 52 leather cushions. Leaf tobacco purchases by British Australian Tobacco Co. Farmers sell leaf at mixed prices amid blue mould damage. Women’s meeting plans demonstrations and competitions with butter and arts entries. Cobram Dramatic Club to stage Glorious Annabelle on Sept 25 for Scots Church appeal.
The Berrigan Shire monthly meeting notes approval of Barroga bridge space, gravel supplies, and street widening costs. Officials discussed Barooga paddock lease, water trust extension, and sheep yards near Covram Berrigan road. A poundkeeper appointment, rate collection update, and concrete footpath work were recorded alongside tree damage from gum tip collection.
The notice notes the death of 82 year old deceased born in Geelong and raised at Boomagong Tocumwal now buried at Numurkab. It lists survivors including three sons and a widow Mrs Edward Bourchier, with services held this afternoon and pallbearers Kilpatrick and Tuckett among mourners.
Obituaries record the death of Henry Richards age 33 of Baro ge from war injuries and the passing of W J Thomas in Tocumwal aged 70s. Richards had been ill for years. his funeral was at Batoogs Cemetery with Canon Williamson. Thomas, born Port Fairy and a founder of the Australian Natives Association, left a widow and seven or more descendants, with services at Tocumwal Church of England.
An engineer reports on River Road near a wrecked house site with a faulty section of road 10 chains long to be rebuilt when graders nearby. A culvert is needed on a table drain to serve Mr Mack house’s property and a channel culvert is recommended on the Narangi side. Barooga Water Trust urged to replace infested tuber fructure with concrete pipe culvert. Prosecutions for carting loads over two tons on the river road discussed. fines set, first cases before the court. Emergency meliet works in Tocumwal and Finley progressing. kerb and gutter work in Finley due in two weeks. Petition by 130 residents to extend Barooga bridge running deck full width. PWD to deck rather than fill centre space, add side planks, surface with bitumen. Returning soldiers to be appointed as returning officers for triennial elections. Dew tractor purchase recommended to replace failing old one. Other items include permissions for a gate pipe, removal of a dry tree, and inspection of dangerous spots and rabbit trouble at several locations.
Mr W L Moss of Numarkuti addressed a Mechanics Institute gathering on Federal elections. He argued for state aligned protection for wheat and other primary industries, urged cautious tariff policy, and called for better organization to expand mutton and lamb exports. He supported limited tobacco excise changes and stressed independence of the Commonwealth Bank from political control.
Mr J McEwen, endorsed Country Party candidate, spoke at the Mechanics’ Institute in Cobram. He received hearty thanks after a Q&A session and advocated voluntary military training, modern Australian air and naval forces, and continued British exchange for defence. He urged broad economic support for a capable war effort.
The text reads unclear with many garbled words and names. It appears to reference a sports lineup or match involving Cobra Copram and players such as Ladien Adie and Stead. Key details like dates, scores, and teams are not interpretable.
Fragmentary text references a lawsuit involving Mr Maloney against Denhaus as teacher, a school in Barooga, and mentions a death on Friday with scattered biographical details. The legible portions fail to establish a coherent event or outcome.
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