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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 27, 1945
Page
2
Cobram district notice listing agents A T Giloup and L A Martin as managers. Auctions and clearing sales conducted in any district. State Insurance Company agents taped National Western Executors and Agency. Trucks secured for Newmarket. Prompt settlements required.
The Tweddle family expresses thanks for sympathy shown after their loss. They acknowledge floral tributes letters telegrams cards calls and personal visits and specially thank Dr Prior Sister Williams Sister Thomas and Mr and Mrs W Pond. Please accept this as a personal acknowledgment.
A busy column lists feed requests, farm equipment for sale, woolpacks, seeds, fencing, horses and dogs lost, harness, sports goods, and household supplies. Local traders Gerald Heard Louis Hamon P. J. Lester J. N. A. Greig offer items while owners seek bids and assistance.
Protein haperiococcal linseed meal peanut coconut meal bran pollard crushed wheat and similar feeds are widely used in New South Wales dairying districts to raise milk and cream production. At current butterfat prices it pays to feed cows these rations.
The Shire of Tungamah announces Allan J. Lawrence Michael D. O'Dwyer Reginald C. N. Chapman and James W. Oliver as duly elected Councillors as the number nominated equals the number to be elected. Dated 25 August 1945 at Shire Hall Tungamah Deputy Returning Officer E Bartlett.
Notice that a meeting of the Shire of Numurkah Waterworks Trust will be held in the Council Chamber Numurkah on Monday September 10 1945 at 10 20 am to settle and allow accounts for the year ended 31 December 1944 and to inspect the annual statement at the Shire Offices Numurkah.
Winston Cresswell Shaw of Numurkah is nominated as Proper Officer of the Shire under the Country Fire Authority Act. Tenders to the Shire Secretary, Numurkah Hall, for Contract 3/48 Reforming loaming and sheeting on the N and S road between Twitt and Mundooona. Submissions close 11 am Monday September 10 with deposit.
Weborough and Lewis Charles Brabender announce the christening event for Ches Brabender at the Presbyterian Church Maryborough on Saturday September 1st. The notice lists Mr and Mrs W Brabender as the parents and mentions the Sin. designation for Morse.
Amusements and meetings announced for late August including a Fathers' Association gathering in Soldiers' Club-room on Friday August 31 at 8 p.m. and a Juvenile Ball practice in Town Hall supper-room on Saturday September 8 at 3 30 p.m. Also an obituary notice inserted by wife and step-children. Local ads include tomato plants and seedlings from Geo Brown Saxton-street Numurkal. Baulkamaugh Church Anniversary marks the 62nd Methodist Church anniversary with Rev Q If Muller, A G and Mrs Cowan, solos, violins, a junior quiz, social and supper.
Local family the Tyres of Melbourne formerly of Naring received Army advice that a former POW reported their son Keith Tyres died in a Barnes prison camp. Army noted no corroboration and lamented the slim chances the report is true. Keith, age 27, enlisted with local ALAH club members and was captured at Singapore.
At the monthly Katamatite meeting Mrs J Reid gave an interesting brown stick weaving demonstration and was thanked by President Mrs Williams. Delegates Mesdames McCleary and Reid were appointed to attend the Group Conference in Tatura next month.
At a Wunghnu meeting of the U C it was decided to support candidate G C Moss for the Murray Valley electorate. Disappointment was voiced over delays in wheat price adjustments and Mr McEwen was asked to inquire. Representations were also planned to establish a petroleum depot at Pool in Wunghnu.
A Brisbane notice urges rheumatism patients to seek proper treatment as a blood condition worsens. It mentions an upcoming visit to Numurral on Friday and notes an afternoon program at the Telegraph Hotel with specialist Leonard Wight from Melbourne.
Fragmentary OCR summary notes candidates and votes in a regional election. Mentions Bartub, Leal Mus, and Nui towns with unclear vote tallies. Indicates distribution across districts with references to West Biel and Neattoka areas.
The readable fragment references a scheduled activity or sale spanning August 30 and 31 with times from 2 PM to 9 AM Friday hosted at a Motel. It mentions Mr Louis Haman and an arrangement with an organizer, but many names and details are garbled.
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