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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 12, 1948
Page
5
In memory of Harold Sanders who died in April after illness. Treasured memories remain with his family, penned by a grieving mother. A note honors departed relatives and conveys enduring love from Munro and Marjorte, with references to surviving family and heartfelt farewell.
A scrambled report outlines a series of sport and social notes from rural towns. It mentions boating wolves, a mapleton event, a sale on April 8, and a turnout at a voting station, followed by obituaries for Harriet Cobbledick and Miss F E Watson along with the death of P J Holdingson from a butter firm.
The note records Mrs W. Carrick’s 90th birthday party hosted by her daughter Miss Mabel Carrick at Mangarra Road Canterbury on April 2 with sons William Lynd and Henry and families. It also mentions Northern Districts Municipal Association badge plans for Nurmukah Council members with long service and tributes to Mrs Billingham on her 151st birthday and a Scottish-born family tally at Tallygarboona.
Unreserved sale of farm equipment livestock and household items as Mr J. A. Perks retires to England. Dairy cows, a horse, hay, grain, fencing, timber, machinery including ploughs and separators, plus poultry sheds, incubator, brooders and household furniture to be sold Wednesday April 28 at Nathalia area under the Aus Zealand Loan agency and C G Pearce instructions.
Sale under instructions from Messrs Moulton Bros offers entire stock and plant. Includes 10 Australian Clydesdale mares, 24 mares and geldings ages 2 years to aged, one Clydesdale stallion Florentine imported from Scotland, one quiet sulky mare aged, one quiet sulky horse, 15 ed cattle good Shorthorn bull, 1100 sheep including 850 comebacks and crossbred ewes, 280 mixed sex crossbred weaners.
The April Reader's Digest column quotes Jon Eddy and an American Magazine writer debating turkeys. They joke that turkeys are quirky and prone to mishaps from misrecognizing food to fear of rain, yet farmers keep raising them despite the comical hazards.
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