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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 30, 1937
Page
2
W Houlihan announces he has taken over the business previously run by Mr o D Jackson. The notice lists contact details and office arrangements at Yarroweyah North, noting prompt service and local agent support for sales and fittings.
A local plumber advertises repair services for pumps and mills, hot water systems and tank work. The note promises custom repairs, heater installations, and guaranteed work with emphasis on saving time and money.
Weekly visits to Cobram Saturdays 2 p.m. with seeds and plants listed. Includes Spring Seeds Phlox Trommondi and Nana Compacta cosmos doublecrested, Zinnia options Dahlia Flower seed, Zinnia Lilliput, Zinnia Linearis, and border plants. Tomatoes Stoner's Prolific and Penn State varieties with packet counts and plant notes.
Dr W H Hodge of Invergordon spoke at the Nu murkah Chamber dinner about his 34,000 mile tour through Europe and the British Isles. He described German and English conditions, the outbreak risk, and Britain's readiness, noting high armament spending and the busy munition towns on Coronation Day. He observed German farming, price controls, and social life, with reflections on Australia’s wool and wheat prices and travel impressions from Italy, Switzerland, and England.
M A Weir, vice president of the Leeton District Uwaiers Club, discusses a vanishing cod issue. The piece notes severe fish sickness, color and shape changes, and contrasting behavior of trout and other species amid river conditions and lagoon reaches.
The discussion highlights how dam construction and water management have reduced summer river flows, trapping juvenile Murray cod and causing mass die offs. Hatcheries struggle. stock from England and Prussian carp is criticized. natives species like Murray cod are valued, with calls to protect spawning grounds and natural food webs. A royal commission on nationalisation is debated, noting mixed consensus and possible government action chunked with bank relations and policy implementation.
A long list outlines stewards for Cobram show events across divisions. Chief stewards include J Lonergan for Draughts and M D O Dwyer for Thor Thoroughbreds, with numerous assistants and marshals listed for each category such as Trotting, Hunters, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs, Farm Produce, Wool, Poultry, Vegetables, Fruits, Day and Culinary, Flowers, and Schoolwork.
A fragmentary OCR note lists names including Cook Weedie Furey Weim and Martindale Eaton plus Watteson Mane AR Guss J Stall and Grybls, indicating an incomplete record of participants or contributors to a painting or art display.
Govern ment-Statistician figures show brides in New South Wales last year ranged from 13 to 21 with many under 18. Grooms included ages up to 72, and several marriages involved widowers or divorced partners. Among 5 183 babies born, 19 213 mothers were 25 or younger with several as young as 13 and 14.
In a brief item the ad references financial services from an early banking firm. The text notes promotional rates and service offers aimed at local customers, with a focus on depositing and borrowing options and a call to visit the bank for more details.
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