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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 20, 1915
Page
7
A community jumble fair at Cardens on Saturday boosted funds for Colac Hospital. The event featured a wheel, stalls stocked with goods, and prizes including a motor cycle and car, while local volunteers and the War effort drew strong turnout and donations.
Colac Turf Clue lists handicaps for the Heating meeting with mare Melrose 71 at Minnetore and other entries including Hippolytes 71 Newhwanitia and Spankel-38. The pony handicaps will appear in our men home.
Victorian rail timetable fragment details boosted services on Melbourne to Geelong and other lines. It lists departure and arrival times for multiple routes including Melbourne to Geelong, Port Melbourne, Colac, Ballarat, Creswick, and Warrnambool with specific stops and fare hints. Acting Secretary Oke Ho Ston oversees the timetable notes.
Colac shire invites tenders addressed to the President for contracts under the Country Heads Act 1913. Works include supplying concrete yards of spallo at Pirron Vale, Lake Condure and main round lodges. Tender day is January 4 with specifications at local shire offices. Lowest or any tender considered.
Auctions at Colac and surrounding yards list cattle sheep pigs poultry and produce. A variety of items from fat cattle dairy cattle horses and lambs to vegetables fruit and baked goods are offered across multiple dates led by G Johnstone Co and Walton Vagg entries with open bidding and late auctions.
Melbourne market report notes carcass meat supply forward for today with quotations for vealers from medium to prime at 5d per pound and pork priced from 9d to 10d per pound.
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