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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 17, 1940
Page
2
A brief note describes useful gifts as pleasing items, noting they are very smartly finished with satin motifs and lace trimmed. The date range 7/11 to 24/6 appears, indicating an event or sale period. The source emphasizes quality presentation and decorative details in the gifts.
Special values on pure silk sheets in latest shades. Hosiery features full fashioned hose in medium and service weight, offered in a broad range of colors. Promotion runs from April 11 to October 6, with prices per pair.
R Pocknee, practical tailor of Meiklejohn street Numurkah, offers suits from £4 4s made to measure with own materials. Twenty-five years as head tailor, visits Cobram every Saturday afternoon at Grand Central Hotel. Also promotes Christmas goods from Treacy's Numurkah including 4 Xmas Autograph Stationery Writing Compendium and crystal ware.
A collage of small obituary lines for Lecem- IePHERSON and McPHERSON, with dates in December 1938 and January 1939, plus local farming and public notices. References to cream wagon entry permissions, skeleton weed warnings, and a long community briefing on holidays and road safety from RACV.
The Numurkah Leader reports on a comfort fund Christmas treat hosted by the knitting circle with musical performances and a talk by Mrs Gray on wartime crafts. It notes parcel deliveries from home lifting spirits and urges continued community effort. Also covered is a creek flow inspection by Trust engineers near Kas mba, a repaired irrigation path, and a legal timber-cutting case at Numurka Court with fines and compensation.
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