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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 22, 1941
Page
2
A dance for Mooroopna Hospital will be held at Beari Public Hall on Friday. Good music and supper offered. Entry is 3 shillings for gents and 2 shillings for ladies. Also announced Rev J Penni will attend Wanghau Methodist celebrations on June 29 30 and July 1.
In loving memory of our dear Father who passed away April 26 1939 Hearts that love you never forget In memory you are with us yet Inserted by his loving daughter and son in law Mavis Claude and grandson Howard Sanders In loving memory of our dear Mother who passed away on April 22 1939 Ever Remembered Inserted by her loving Family
Shire of Numurkah council declares traffic prohibitions on all roads from May 1 to October 1 1941 unless written consent is given. Motor trucks and wagons carrying cream petrol and timber are restricted. Notice dated April 17 1941. penalties up to £20. Anzac Day events and Red Cross fundraiser details follow.
The Numurkah Leader listing shows an established paper with a subscription rate of 10 per year, available by post or delivery. Dated Tuesday, April 22, the fragment reflects archival newspaper context and pricing information from the era.
The Nomurkah branch of the Country Women’s Association holds its annual ball at the Town Hall on Tuesday May 6 with details in the notice.
Autumn and Winter millinery features felt hats in grey blue navy and brown priced 12/6 to 13/6 with a wide range of shapes and colors. The ad also promotes all wool cardigan and jumper suits, ladies woollen underwear and lace knit singlets with special prices from 3/6 to 4/6 and silk and wool vests in multiple finishes.
Children’s fleecy lined bloomers in Pink Fawn Cream and Navy with prices 1/11 and 2/6. Silk and wool singlets in all sizes with cream silk finish shell pattern from 1/9 to 2/9. Wool singlets, fine ribbed knit, sizes all. Winceyette pyjamas one piece sizes 24 to 26 4/11. Two piece Wincyette pyjamas floral plain 30 36 priced 6/11 and 7/11. Ladies’ Winceyette Nights plain colors with contrast binding silk embroidered motif 5/6. Ladies’ Winceyette Pyjamas plain and two tone designs 7/6 and 9/11.
Textile list offers tartans and checked fabrics in red blue and brown for children's pleated frocks. Double width blue and white and brown and white designs priced at 2 shillings per yard. Small check and fleck de slams in 2 shillings yard. All wool Jerseyette 36 inches wide at 4 shillings 11 pence per yard.
American Tea in aid of the Fumurkah Welfare and Comfort Fund invites attendance at the Town Hall supper room on Friday afternoon May 2, 1941 at 2 30. Gifts of all kinds welcomed. Special attractions include a pie and pasty stall run by F J Webster and W J Little Hom Sees.
A collage of coarse ads for appliances pets services and goods: piano sale chaff oats and seed, a pony for school use, painting requests, sewing machine repairs, prescription service and a lung tonic. Local traders list patterns, dress goods and blinds, with contact notes and prices.
Anzac Day events include a 10 15 assembly of returned soldiers at the club room, wreath laying at the Memorial, and a Town Hall service at 11 with Dr Moss as speaker and umurkah Orchestra providing hymns. The Ludion Guild Presbyterian Fair at the Town Hall proved successful with large attendance, featuring flower show results and multiple stalls. A Numurkah RSL meeting planned a Returned Soldiers' Voluntary Defence League branch, and the Owls bowling event saw Webster and McNamara win a pairs title after a playoff.
A social gathering in Numurkah on April 12 honored Gunner Jack Gray. District residents presented him with a fountain pen during a lively program featuring Irene and other performers. Speakers praised his service, thanked supporters of the Comforts Fund, and urged unity for the Empire as Gray received best wishes for his return.
Tomorrow night Town Hall screens Honeymoon in Bali starring Allan Jones Madeline Carroll Fred McMurray and Akim Tamiroff in a sparkling romantic comedy about a career woman chasing love from Fifth Avenue to a South Seas paradise. Also shown are Our Gang Good Fishing Pete Smith Sea for Yourself a color cartoon and Paramount newsreel. Saturday offers Geronimo Preston Foster Ellen Drew Ralph Morgan Monte Blue epic with Mexican Spitfire comedy and more.
A garbled OCR passage records a local church or presbytery gathering with scattered names and places. It mentions attendance, some dates and roles, and a few cryptic figures, but the text is largely unreadable and lacks coherent events or outcomes.
What The Adots tell of a card party in aid of the Red Cross at the Town Hall supper-room on Thursday May 1. A dance will be held at Beari Public Hall on Friday May 2 to aid Moorpop na Hospital. Numurkah stores close Friday Anzac Day and stay open until 9 p.m. Thursday. The annual CWA ball is set for Tuesday May 8 with a debut performance and a set topper.
Church notices list multiple parishes and ministers including Rev Jutnean Numarkah, Rev Alesander Raykammugh, Rev Hughes, and others with assigned locations such as West day Nutiast and Cochran Rev. Request. Durdulbaiane Nathalia and Ketap ne along with several lay members are named for service attendance and duties.
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