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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 29, 1925
Page
2
The article highlights rising trade in Ladies garments and fashion items. It emphasizes the role of tailoring houses in meeting demand and showcases improved craft and customer service in the Ladies wear sector.
McPherson Callander & Co lists Pallon Saltra Urkam and Kyabram in a brief entry likely noting entities or settlements. The fragmentary text provides only names, with no clear action or context. Further details are needed to specify relations or events among the entities.
Overdue rates and notices from Shire of Numurkat urge payment to rate collectors. A social at the ILC schoolroom on Batards night May 2 and a range of local advertisements follow with sales, auctions, and drift of items including drills, tires, and farm gear.
Local committee forms for Numurkan Anzac commemoration with a meeting urged by the shire president. Flower show and fair at Numurkah Hall on Friday with stalls and prizes, tea for 9d, and entries due Thursday. Also notes open tournaments under Numurkah club management and a Mechanics' Pictures feature next Saturday night titled "W i" with Thomas Meighan and George Ade.
Entry closing details for a Presbyterian Church fundraiser at Mechanics Hall on Friday May 1 with afternoon and evening sessions. Miss V McKenzie is secretary and Mrs M B Harper assists, promising a good evening with competition and entries sought.
Billie Zennes Cale asks Numurkah district patrons to support her successor A. Rei who will run the business on the same lines with weekly fresh fish from local fishermen, starting 1 May.
Plans for the new Methodist parsonage at Numurkal will be received until May 18. The call requests specifications and estimates with dalfray's store serving as secretary for details and bidding.
A local notice informs residents of a new opening in Numurkan at ee Prideaur Kiote WWW. Details are sparse in the readable fragments, but the event centers on a public activity or business launch in the Numurkan area.
A cordial invitation extends to all in the community to attend the Links war of the day on Saturday. President Colin Campbell and Hon. R. Pilpalrige are named organizers guiding the event with a focus on sportsmanship and local participation.
The Mooroopna district notes a grade by grade listing of students with names such as Ruth Shaw and Ken Webster recognized for merit. Trustees allocated £300 to a Mooroopna hospital special appeal while errata corrects a past football club medal donation misattribution to Mr Moran from Farmers' Arms Hotel.
In Northern Victoria a meeting at Berdige Friday led to forming a Northern District Municipalities Association for towns north of the Divide Range. Present were delegates from Bendysivlank Barhesten Huntly Waranga Dakinau Swati Hal Maldon Kerat Eat Louder and others. The aim is better coordination and consultation among municipalities within about 15 miles of Melbourne. leaders argued for unity to avoid unwieldy growth and to improve services while preserving regional identity.
Messrs to McNatwara and co report several property transactions over recent weeks. Included are house and land in Numurkah for Mrs Lyons to Mrs Heath, 434 acres NW to A. AL of Karoogay for James Carter, 630 acres at Unearie to James Cope of Yarroweyah, 6 acres at Ungare to W Mitchell of Yarroweyah, 278 acres at Baulkamaugh to Frank Thornton in partnership with Kit Patrick, 192 rem Katunga to U als by Widetoncrutt, plus additional sales and pending deals across the area.
Personal warning notes her death at age 63 in Shepparton after a brief illness. Mrs Swann, long known and respected, moved with her husband from the district in earlier years. Survived by three sons and three daughters, the family includes William Swann, Barnard, and Mrs H Boscold of Shepparton, Annie Swann of Shanbarton, and others. Funeral arrangements and local acknowledgments followed in the community.
The tenth anniversary of the Gallipoli landings is marked with public commemorations at schools and churches. The piece contrasts reverent remembrance of Australian and New Zealand soldiers with a report on agricultural efforts to boost crop yields through experimental plots and manure usage, noting community and official support for farming improvements alongside war memorial reflections.
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