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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 07, 1936
Page
6
The township and nearby farms largely avoided storm damage while rainfall over three days reached high levels. Wheat moved by motor track to siding, totaling about 30 000 bags, with fields still needing stripping. Rainfall for the year totals 1311 points, 250 below last year. A thunderstorm hit the district early January.
A large gathering attended a Thursday farewell for Mrs G Hiesel and family moving to Melbourne. The evening featured dancing, to music by C Hutchinson and Mr Roy Mutchinson, plus gifts from neighbors and community members. A second event at Pimpinio Hall celebrated the annual break up concert for the school with performances by teachers and students, then a coffee supper ended a well attended, festive night.
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate rainfall measured in December with limited, unclear data. A single point is noted on Christmas Eve, with the overall record described as poor and partially legible. No clear outcomes or entities are identifiable due to the garbled text.
Riverside hosted an egg laying contest with multiple entries listed by breeder and bird names. Scores range across several rounds and include figures for White Leghorns and Single Birds, detailing participants such as N W Hood Brim O Pearse and L Hood Brim with various scores and placements.
For over 40 years inventors chased a man propelled flying cycle. Early dreams led to the 1898 Dying bicycle and Pennington schemes. Gaunt's Cycloplane of 1909 weighed 14 lb and promised lift, but never gained commercial headway. Now a German glider monoplane claims 200 yard flight aided by a catapult, with a 60 foot wingspan and pedal powered propeller, witnessed by the German Air Ministry as a possible first step toward a flying machine.
From the Central Weather Bureau Melbourne report readers learn last week’s rainfall and temperature patterns across regions including Swan Hill Beulah Berriwillock Wimmera Stawell Beaufort Ararat Central Fryertown Queenscliff Halon Wiechelan Woods Point Oma Bonant Vesper and Vesper with scattered totals such as 122 at Berriwillock 105 at Stawell 87 at Central and 103 at Halon, indicating varied light to moderate totals and localized heavier falls.
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